Volume 4. No 4 Information Technology News of the University of California, Davis December 1995

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Buying Time on the Backbone

Be it analysts downloading financial information or researchers surfing the World Wide Web, the campus is growing more dependent on the campus network. Available usage data indicate that the current campus network will reach its saturation point in October 1996 - roughly 8 months before the completion of Network 21. To keep traffic moving until Network 21 is fully operational, Information Technology will expand the backbone capacity of the current network (UCDNet) by roughly 15 percent. The upgrade will involve installing equipment and extending connections in the new Network Operations Center. Most of the work will be transparent to the campus, and you will be notified in advance of any anticipated downtimes.