President Keohane has asked Betty Leydon and John Burness to pull together a proposal, with a preliminary report due in about a month. However, both on the OIT and MCIS sides of the operation, a significant number of servers are running either Netware 3 or 4, and will require upgrades to meet this standard. The need is to upgrade servers while Netware 5.0 is still free. Both MCIS and OIT are identifying servers needing upgrades. Main reason to go to IP is to permit work remotely.
Users have to reboot as they move into a different vendor's zone.
The system operates at 11 Mbps currently, soon to be 22 Mbps. If costs fall as projected, we might move in summer or fall 2001, giving us 55 Mbps connectivity. Many other universities are working on wireless areas or campuses. We will learn from their experience as well as our own.