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Completed Projects
| Palmetto College |
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Enhanced the network
infrastructure at the Palmetto College campuses as well as
installed new data circuits to the campuses. The network
enhancements provide the campuses with guaranteed
bandwidth and the ability to prioritize voice, video and
data traffic. By guaranteeing bandwidth and prioritizing
the traffic, the campuses can offer reliable and stable
classes to students via video.
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| Residence Hall |
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The residence hall network
infrastructure for the students was redesigned and
upgraded. Thirty-nine new Cisco 4500 series switches
(large chassis based switches) replaced over 100 smaller
switches in 28 communication closets. Approximately half
of the switches that were replaced were re-deployed into
smaller residence hall communication closets. This new
network infrastructure allows for private or protected
VLANs, Quality of Service (QoS) control (this allows for
guaranteed bandwidth and prioritization of certain data
types), encrypted network management, simplified network
management (fewer devices to manage) and dot1x
authentication across the entire residence hall network
infrastructure.
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| USC Beaufort – South
Campus |
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Designed, installed,
configured and put into service the new network
infrastructure for the newly constructed Beaufort - South
Campus by the 2004 fall semester. This new network
infrastructure allows for private or protected VLANs,
Quality of Service (QoS) control (this allows for
guaranteed bandwidth and prioritization of certain data
types), encrypted network management, simplified network
management (fewer devices to manage), dot1x authentication
and convergence of all voice, video, and data traffic.
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| USC – North Campus |
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Configured and put into
service the network infrastructure for the Beaufort -
North Campus. This new network infrastructure allows for
private or protected VLAN s, Quality of Service (QoS)
control (this allows for guaranteed bandwidth and
prioritization of certain data types), encrypted network
management, simplified network management (fewer devices
to manage), dot1x authentication and convergence of all
voice, video, and data traffic.
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| Carolina Card |
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Configured and put into
service the network infrastructure for the new Carolina
Card system (Diebold) which replaced the old system. It
has been an ongoing assignment since late summer to assist
the Carolina Card team with all of their networking
requirements. In November and December the emphasis has
been on establishing a new set of private networks across
the campus that provided network service for every vending
point on the campus where students, faculty and staff can
use the Carolina Card (this currently serves 57 points
including vending machines, shack bars, cafeterias,
printers, and retail sales). This new set of networks
allow for ease of management on the part of the Carolina
Card team and better security control (VPN capability and
simpler firewall configurations).
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| Backbone Enhancements |
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Installed and configured a
second core multilayer switch into the core of the network
infrastructure. This allows for redundant uplinks to be
connected from the six distribution layer multilayer
switches to the core of the network infrastructure. This
redundancy eliminates potential single points of failure,
provides load-balancing of data while both links are
active and provides a backup pathway for network traffic
in the event of failure of one of the core switches or of
failure of any single component in the path between the
core and the distribution points.
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| Metro Ethernet |
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Designed, installed,
configured and put into service a new Metro Ethernet
service for the USC – School of Medicine. Before the Metro
Ethernet service, the data connectivity between the USC –
Columbia campus, the USC – SoM site located by the
Veterans Administration and the Richland Medical Park (RMP)
site were partially-meshed with 3Mbps data circuits (In
other words….for USC – SoM to communicate with RMP they
had to traverse through USC – Columbia campus). The new
Metro Ethernet service delivers fully-meshed Fast Ethernet
(100Mbps) data connections between the USC – Columbia
campus, the USC – SoM site located by the Veterans
Administration and the Richland Medical Park (RMP) site
(In other words….USC – SoM can communicate with RMP
without having to traverse through the USC – Columbia
campus).
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| Indoor Wireless |
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Designed, installed,
configured and put into service new indoor wireless
network infrastructure for the following locations:
- College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management
- School of Journalism and Mass Communications
- West Quad Residence Hall
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| Network Infrastructure
Installations Associated with New Construction and/or
Relocation |
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- Child Development Center
- Controllers office to1600 Hampton Street
- Purchasing to 1600 Hampton Street
- Regional Campuses to 1600 Hampton Street
- Contract and Grant
- 5th floor Byrnes
- Arnold Public Health Server Lab
- Pendleton Garage
- McMaster College
- Sumwalt Nanocenter
- University 101
- McKissick Visitor Center
- Sigma Chi
- Chi Psi
- West Quad
- Columbia Hall Renovation
- Field House
- 743 Greene Street (Facilities)
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| Network Infrastructure
Installations Not Associated with New Construction and/or
Relocation |
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- Legare, Bates West, Cliff, and Preston
- separated student and faculty/staff networks
- Columbia Hall
- Separated student and faculty/staff networks & added new
switches, gigabit uplinks,
and trunking.
- College of Journalism and Mass Communications
- Provided new switches, gigabit uplinks, and trunking.
- Graduate Science Research Center
- new switches, gigabit uplinks, and trunking.
- Career Center at BA
- new switches, gigabit uplinks, and trunking
- Hamilton College
- new switches, gigabit uplinks, and trunking
- Neutron Generator
- new switches, gigabit uplinks, and trunking
- Gambrell
- trunking
- Welsh Humanities
- trunking
- Law Center
- trunking
- Hospitality, Retail, and Sports Management
- trunking
- Russell House
- new fiber path was installed, moved routing off of the LeConte
distribution switch and
brought them straight to the core infrastructure
eliminate failure points and improve
serviceability.
- Geography Department in Calcott
- new topology for improved reliability.
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| Network Infrastructure
Installations in support of “specialty” projects |
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- Thomas Cooper Library - a new server network was
created.
- University Technology Services - Helpdesk
- University Technology Services - an extension of the student
network to the UTS Front Desk was done to assist in
configuration of wireless service.
- University Technology Services Tech Computer Lab - a special
network was created for virus removal. The tech lab has
access to the Internet for downloads and patches without
risking contamination of the USC network infrastructure.
- West Quad - a network was created to support
environmental control which allows for monitoring of
power usage.
- Coker, LeConte, Coliseum, Hampton St., Humanities,
and UTS Annex - private networks were created onall
campus distribution routers to assist Johnson Control in
managing the campus HVAC systems and the door access
systems in the residence halls.
- Colonial Life Arena – a new Patron Ticketing system was
installed. This project required the establishment of a
new private network in the ticket office area of the Colonial
Life Arena and the implementation of a private secure connection
over the public internet (VPN Tunnel) to the Paciolan ticketing
server in Irvin, CA.
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| USC Wireless Network |
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To learn more about wireless @ USC, please visit
http://uts.sc.edu/wireless. The outdoor wireless
implementation is “officially” complete, along with some
areas inside, but continues to be an on-going project
within Network and Information Security Services. To
request wireless service, please contact the Help Desk at
777-1800.
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Outdoor Wireless
Phase I
Designed, installed and configured an outdoor wireless
network to provide coverage for wireless data transmission
in the 802.11b/g frequency range to encompass all
green-space at the USC Columbia campus. The design
includes overlapping, seamless coverage to provide for
data and future voice traffic. All traffic is required to
have authentication, remediation and encryption. Other
design elements included mobility, considerations for
support and training of staff as well as the
implementation of a Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine as
the central management piece of the wireless network.
Phase II
Designed an outdoor wireless network to provide coverage
for wireless data transmission in the 802.11b/g frequency
range to encompass all green-space at the USC Columbia
campus. The design includes overlapping, seamless coverage
to provide for data and future voice traffic. All traffic
will be required to have authentication, remediation and
encryption. Other design element included was mobility.
* The outdoor wireless project
implementation is complete, minus a few areas still under
construction and planning.
** Note: There may be some areas within the outdoor
wireless zone that are ‘dead zones’ due to space
limitations.
Indoor Wireless
- Most on-campus residence hall common areas and study
lounges
(* not available inside student rooms)
- Strom Thurmond Fitness and Wellness Center
- Carolina Coliseum – Main floor (HRSM, College of
Journalism and Mass Communication)
- Russell House
- McCutchen House
- Thomas Cooper Library
- 1600 Hampton Street (1st floor training room)
- Law Center
- Parts of Thornwell
- Parts of Osborne
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On-Going
Projects
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| USC Wireless Network |
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To learn more about wireless @
USC, please visit
http://uts.sc.edu/wireless .
- More areas are being added to the indoor locations,
along with other specific requests for wireless service.
Most outdoor locations of wireless access are complete
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| eNable: Network
Infrastructure Project |
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Creating a complete network
infrastructure for the University.
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