The University fiber plant consist of multimode fiber cable which extend to approximately to 18 buildings on campus. The newest addition has been the CMR building. Norfolk State University is in the progress of upgrading its concentrators and hubs to networking switched equipment. University e-mail accounts have now been offered to all students on campus. Personal WEB pages and posted WEB information will soon be available to all students on campus.
Students now have to ability to gain access to their mail from any Internet connected client.
Switched internetworks will offer significantly greater bandwidth, flexibility, and QoS service support than is possible on today's networks built with shared media hubs and routed internetworks. The deployment of switched internetworks will change the face of networks, in the wiring closet, within the enterprise backbone, and beyond. It is possible today to put together a road map for how such networks would be built and how they will evolve. The technical direction of the core of NSU s networks will continue to be built with ATM upgradable switches. Such router clusters are often used to replace existing FDDI backbones, since they offer considerably more bandwidth.