Campus Network Overview
The UNCG main campus network communications infrastructure is a high performance, high availability design able to withstand the loss of one of the two data centers. UNCG's metropolitan area network consists of more than 750 network switching devices providing over 25,000 wired network access ports. The metro-network serves more than 8,400 devices throughout the campus, transmitting almost a terabyte of data daily. The campus wireless network consists of 750 network access points providing indoor and outdoor wireless coverage to approximately 70% of the central campus. All main campus network communications depend on a multi-million dollar fiber optic ring infrastructure that interconnects the primary campus network distribution facilities. Each distribution router has dual redundant paths to the core network.
Each of the 73 buildings on campus is connected to the fiber optic ring. In all cases, there are multiple diverse network paths with no single points of failure. If one path is down, another path will become primary without service interruption. The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is our Internet Service Provider. Connectivity is via gigabit Ethernet over single-mode fiber optic cable to a downtown regional point of presence (RPOP). An OC48 based self-healing fiber optic ring connects UNCG redundantly to NCREN in Research Triangle Park.
For more information, read the Network Executive Briefing* (PDF: requires a reader such as Adobe Reader) presented to the Executive Staff and the Deans Council.
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