Campus Projects

21st Century Network

DoIT staff, in cooperation with the schools and colleges, are now installing a new campus network.

  • More Reliable. The network will be more reliable and durable, with self-correcting and redundant features.
  • More Secure. The software at each router and switch will be maintained to minimize intrusions. VPN (Virtual Private Network) services will allow you to access the campus network as if it were your private department network, even if you are off-campus. This will eliminate the need for departments to run their own cable between physical spaces to ensure a secure department network. Appropriate firewall capability is being considered as part of network implementation, with the goal of determining a firewall strategy during the fall semester.
  • High Quality. You will be able to stream video, graphics, animation, and music in real time. The network feature known as QoS (Quality of Service) will help to ensure that voice and data files are transferred so they can be received with minimal jitter. This will provide new opportunities to use the network for innovations in teaching and research.
  • More Information, Faster. The 10-GB network backbone will allow us to move more information at a rate ten times faster than we can now. Large files of research data will move unimpeded from building to building on campus and beyond campus to Internet2.
  • Ready for Tomorrow. We are planning for expanded wireless capability that will be built over time. This flexibility will enable the network to evolve with our changing and ever-growing needs. The network’s ability to carry voice communications can allow the eventual implementation of a campuswide Voice-over-IP (VoIP) for telephony instead of our current Centrex system.

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Architecture

IT Architecture works with technology decision-makers (such as project managers) from the campus community, from UW System, and from the Division of Information Technology to shape campus technology directions. A primary focus is the development of middleware services such as messaging, directory, authentication, and authorization.

BOREAS/Northern Tier

BOREAS is the Broadband Optical Research, Education and Sciences Network, a collaboration of four major research institutions in the upper Midwest: Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. BOREAS intends to build and operate a Regional Optical Network (RON) to service the advanced production and experimental network requirements of the research and education institutions in our region.

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Enterprise

There are seven SAPs underway at the University. These are significant in scope, campus impact, or strategic University relevance. They do not represent all projects in progress.

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Identity Management

The Populations, Affiliations and Service Entitlements (PASE) group of DoIT enables individuals to use appropriate UW-Madison services that benefit their relationship to the University. PASE implements a role-based model for granting access to university services. PASE role-based implementation entitles a person access to services based on their affiliation or role with the university. PASE allows meeting these typical needs quickly and efficiently:

  • Granting a visiting professor access to the network and course management information.
  • Providing new hires with an email address to receive employment communications before they begin work
  • Allowing students to access Department of Education web sites.

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Internet2

Internet2 is a consortium led by more than 200 universities working with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies. The Internet2 partnership of academia, industry and government helped to build the Internet of today and is accelerating the creation of the Internet of the future.

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Learning Spaces and Learning Space Resources

The InfoLab Planning Task Force is a campus committee responsible for strategic planning for the UW-Madison InfoLab program, along with administration of a grant program funding innovative Learning Space projects and Learning Space Resources.

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Middleware

The University of Wisconsin is now building enterprise-wide information systems by integrating previously independent systems, together with new applications. This integration process has to deal with legacy applications and disparate systems, which the Middleware group brings together to form cohesive end to end systems.

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