Notes from the 3/30/99 Interview with

Kevan Wogoman


Plans for the future:
FIBER!!! Kevan was all for using fiber to extend the network to off-campus locations. He thought it'd be no problem running it under '40, just a matter of some permissions, which might take a while. He mentioned that most of the cable (espeically along roads) would be run above ground using RP&L's poles. We should see how long the signal travels in multi-mode & single mode fiber. Chris Hardie mentioned that RP&L has some fiber running to the mini-plant by Warren and Wilson dorms.

As far as the future of on campus plans, there is a hope to move from star to ring topology in a few years.

The subnets have no restrictions, save for the student subnet which does not allow Netware access. The building are hooked up to the subnets as follows (incomplete list):
Tyler: Faculty
Dennis: Faculty, Public
Stanley: Faculty(?)
Runyan: Faculty, Admin.
Carpenter: Faculty (upper 2 floors), Admin (lower 2 floors)
Dorms: all Student

Kevan would like to be able to see web traffic as well as e-mail (port 25 of Yang). He mentioned using NDG's EtherBoy/PacketBoy packages, but they cost several thousand dollars, so ECS doesn't have them.

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