Young East Network

Computer Networks in Young Hall - East Wing

Infrastructure

East Wing of Young Hall completed in '95 has a modern network infrastructure. The building has been prewired with Cat 5 UTP cable. There are wiring rooms on every floor, however all the cabling is punched down in a central wiring room on the third floor that also houses the electonic equipment. The network electronics consists of a single LANNET LET-36 hub with redundant power supplies that provides connections to approx. 150 Ethernet nodes and 30 terminals via 9 Ethernet Modules and 2 Terminal Server Modules distributed over 4 Ethernet Backplanes.

Applications

East Wing houses a number of scientific workstations/servers that put significant demands on the networks. There are about 30 HP, DEC, and Sun computers located primarily in Physical Chemistry Computing Laboratories and the Departmental Computing Facility.

Physical Chemistry Computing Laboratories located in the East Wing routinely deal with large data sets and make extensive use of NFS mounted disk drives, X Terminals, and network backup facilities. These activities generate considerable network traffic.

The Departmental Computing Facility runs workstations/servers that deliver DNS, Mail, Web, and other network services. All of the systems providing central services are allocated switched 10BaseT ports. However, several shared devices such as Color Laser Printer that often receives multimegabyte files are on shared ethernet segments.

Application described above and the resulting network traffic currently exceed the demands placed on our networks by users of Internet services and emerging video conferencing and remote learning technologies.

Migration to faster network technologies like switched Fast Ethernet and ATM would provide immediate benefits to the East Wing portion of the network and Chemistry/MBI networks in general.

List of Module Ports and connected Nodes (requires authorization)

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