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Core Hardware Infrastructure
The majority of the equipment in our server farm is manufactured by Sun Microsystems. The main server is a Sun Fire E6900 configured into two domains. It is engineered for 99.99% hardware reliability. Each domain contains 32 gigabyte of RAM and 8 dual-core UltraSPARC processors.

Both domains of the E6900 are attached to a Sun/Hitachi 9980 Lightening Series SAN. The 9980 is engineered for 99.999% hardware reliability. It currently provides 7 terabyte of useable disk space, with room for an additional 7 terabytes in the current cabinet and capacity for another three cabinets.

We use three redundant Sun V20z's as Windows domain controllers. They are powered by two Opteron processors. They include 4 gigabyte of RAM.

The thin-client architecture includes 6 Sun X4100's. They are powered by two dual core Opteron processors. Two of the X4100's have 16 gigabyte of RAM and four have 4 gigabyte of RAM. Three of the boxes are providing Solaris terminal services and three are providing Windows 2003 terminal services. There are 85 thin-clients several remote desktop clients and 80 Tarantella clients utilizing these servers. This summer an additional 50 thin-client stations will be added accross campus.

We utilize the Overland NEO8000 for tape backup. We currently own three direct-attached LTO3 tape drives. (400/800G capacity per tape) Each tape drawer has a capacity of 80 tapes and we own 3 of the 6 available drawers. All data is backed up at least once per day with some data being backed up every hour. The standard retention policy is one year.

The network infrastructure includes a Cisco 7200 router at the border, a Cisco 6509 switch/router at the core and HP 4108, HP 4104, HP 2524 and HP 2824 switches at the leaf nodes. The leaf node switches are all communicating at 1 gigabit/sec with the 6509. We purchase 55 megabit/sec of non-transit from our border to NERO, our ISP. NERO rate limits the transit traffic to 50 megabit/sec to core campus and 20 megabit/sec to the resident halls.

Telecommunications and UCS continue to deploy wireless accross campus. The design includes full coverage of campus indoor and outdoor. We are deploying Cisco 1200 access points with 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g radios installed.

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