We are evaluating Airespace equipment for our prototype wireless network hardware and we are considering Meetinghouse software for our 802.1x supplicant. How are other campuses issuing guest credentials?

 

We have completed the replacement of our Foundry BigIron 4000's with Cisco Catalyst 6506's. The backbone has remained stable during slammer incidents that would have crippled the other equipment. We are in the process of upgrading building downlinks to Cisco 2940.

 

We are pursuing Cisco's 3030 VPN solution.

 

We are changing how we are doing communications infrastructure projects, rather than using a vendor blanket through the Purchasing department, we are using contracts issued through Facilities Management.

 

We have entered into an agreement with H&RS to provide universal cable television service to the residence halls for one year.

 

We had 1/3 the number of DMCA complaints in academic year 03/04 compared to the previous academic year.

The Identity Management (IdM) subcommittees have been working on a large number of issues that help define the structure and use of the software (Oblix CoreID). Student Affairs and IS&C programmers have created two proof-of-concept interfaces for the use of our authentication and authorization software.

 

The California NanoSystems Institute computing cluster mentioned in the April report has been delivered and successfully installed.

We continue to inch forward on our machine room remediation and upgrade plan. The latest event which contributed to lengthening this project was the discovery of asbestos. The asbestos removal has now been incorporated into the general plan and forward movement begun anew.

 

Migration to the z800 platform has finished. Upgrading OS/390 to the z/OS operating system is now underway.

 

We have purchased the Software AG product which allows us to expose Adabas to the world as an SQL compliant database. The test environment is now being moved to a production caliber installation. We will follow this with coordinating its availability to campus programmers.

 

We continue to pursue our virtualization initiative with respect to the Windows and Linux server OS's, and this is now being expanded into storage virtualization technologies. .