In the education setting, you might have even more of a challenge keeping consistent, viable Internet access available to students. NetDocuments officials said the company has architected the system to address any concerns about reliability. The infrastructure is based on Cisco 7200 series routers, Check Point firewalls and Flight Recorder's intrusion detection system. For disk storage, NetDocuments has a 22-terabyte Hitachi 7700e DASD and a StorageTek tape library. BYU will offer students up to 10 MB of storage capacity.
Students can purchase more capacity for an added fee.
The service will be able to recover from any kind of failure or disaster. The NetDocuments service uses Tivoli Storage Manager for backup and recovery. NetDocuments will launch a redundant site in Las Vegas in August. To avert problems, NetDocuments has deployed Computer Associates' Unicenter TNG, which lets NetDocuments monitor its overall infrastructure. The university is hoping that the online courses will catch on in the other schools in the BYU system of 30,000 students and 4,000 professors.