NOC Numbers
I&MT’s Network Services
Department, also known as the NOC (Network Operations Center), is responsible
for the following three areas of campuswide
technical support:
1. Telephone Services — telephone line, voicemail and printed Staff Directory-related
issues.
2. Network Engineering — advanced networking projects, network routing/traffic
management and IP addressing.
3. Network Operations — installation of commun-ications, cabling, installation
and maintenance of networking hardware.
2003 was a busy year for the NOC. As of early November 2003, year-to-date numbers
for calendar year 2003 were:
• 21 miles of additional Cat6 cable. Cat6 cable is a type of computer cabling
material.
• 179 new Ethernet connections bringing the current NOC-managed total to
9,893 Ethernet connections.
• Installation of 560 new jacks, including voice and data. Currently, there
are 7,591 NOC-managed voice jacks in use with Centrex or ISDN (Integrated Services
Digital Network) phone numbers on them.
• 10,524 network connections, which include servers, inter-connecting networking
hardware, and over 7,000 numbers with voicemail.