Over 4,400 network connections were activated in the residence halls this fall, including those for over 2,200 freshman. In spite of this we still fell quickly behind and did not complete all of the connections until mid-October. We have already ordered equipment to activate one connection for each resident student so that future semesters will go more smoothly.
Students can request network connections via the web and query the status of their requests.
A number of bugs were identified and corrected in the software. A new server will be developed to support this process next fall. A modest upgrade to the Cisco campus network backbone will be installed this fall. This will allow the deployment of Cisco's IOS versio n 11. The Chapel Street Cisco 7000 will have a dual 100 megabit ethernet card installed.