| Campus Backbone Network |
| Previous topologies | ||
| FIDDI | ||
| ATM (LANE) | ||
| SONET | ||
| Current Topology | ||||
| Gig E | ||||
| Core to Distribution = 10 Gig E | ||||
| Links soon to be 10 Gig E | ||||
| Aggregate to each distribution soon to be 40 Gig E | ||||
| Distribution to Access layer = Gig E | ||||
| SONET | ||||
| ATM (ISP hand off) | ||||
| DSL Mega central | ||||
| FIBER | |||
| MM fiber | |||
| SM fiber (blown and conventional) | |||
| Switches & Routers | |||
| Homogeneous core advantages | |||
| Cisco (emphasis on open standards) | |||
| SLA – Your everything | ||||
| Service Level Agreements should be customer based NOT tech “cool” driven. | ||||
| Money flows with service support philosophy not with trophy building. | ||||
| Service Identification | ||||
| What’s on your network? | ||||
| How critical is it? | ||||
| fire alarms, security, ID systems, HVAC, temperature alarms on refrigerators, Medical systems, student systems, payroll, research projects, Voice, etc.. | ||||
| How to best monitor each service. | ||||
| SLA with service providers | ||||
| Power | ||||
| UPS, generator | ||||