Computing
and Network Environment
Central Management
The Systems Support
branch of Computing Services provides centralized support for
personal computers and other
systems on the campus-wide network:
• Approximately 300
Desktop PCs located in computing labs and faculty/staff offices
• Approximately 1300
Gateway M275 and 120 Gateway/Motion M1300 tablet-
PCs for
faculty/staff/students (mandate program for fall 2005 freshmen, sophomores and
juniors; to include all undergraduates fall 2006)
• Macintosh systems – 30 Mac G4
computers
• 37 Microsoft Windows 2003 servers
• Active Directory,
Exchange-2003, and Microsoft XP
• HP EVA SAN with 4.5Tb
for data storage
• Access to the Regents
Information System mainframe
Faculty/Student
supported system:
• sun420 - Quad processor Sun server running Solaris
• sun250 - Dual processor Sun server
• Silicone
Graphics –
dual 16 processor machines
• HP – five servers
supporting academic applications beyond the standard
centralized services
The campus network
consists of fiber starred to all buildings from the Server Room in the
rooms. An 802/11 g/b wireless
network overlay supports mobile computing in all
classrooms, academic offices,
administrative offices, the Dakota Prairie Playhouse, and
the Community Center / Fieldhouse. Internet connectivity is provided through 10M
Internet1
and 5M internet2 connections. An Allot is
used to shape network traffic
through the internet. DSU hosts one of three DDN Core Sites, the
network supporting
state/local government agencies,
the K-12 school districts, and public higher education
institutions.
Intrusion detection is
proved by a CISCO IDS, Firewall services are provided through
CISCO PIX 515, spam
filtering on e-mail is provided through Mail Marshal. Cicso
Clean Access is used to control access to the wireless network.