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UAEU WAN Links and Internet Bandwidth
Upgrade
With More and more services migrating towards cloud
such as Office 365, Citrix etc., and student’s requirement
to access rich and high definition media at quicker
speeds, and to provide academics with High quality
Videoconferencing and other bandwidth hungry
applications, demanded more bandwidth.
In order to cater with such pressing requirements and
keeping in view any future expansion ICT Team decided
to lay the infrastructure which will not only fulfill the
current needs but is also ready to handle any other
future demands.
Two major upgrades were done in this regard 1) ISP
Services and 2) The underlying Hardware. The current
ISP services couldn’t be upgraded due to the underlying
hardware which puts a hard limit on the bandwidth due
to no support of high speed modules. So the Internet and
MPLS routers were upgraded that supported 10G Links
as a first step. Later the ISP services (MPLS and Internet)
were upgraded as well to cater the huge bandwidth
demands.
Earlier UAEU had only 2GB of Internet Access which was
mostly used during peak hours and MPLS links were
between 10-50MB. After the Upgrade we now stand at
6GB of Internet access capable to be upgraded to more
than 200GB and the MPLS links are at 100-300MB. This
will allow users to access High Content media at much
higher speeds and also with full redundancy (availability
99.9999%).
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