1. Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building - which began to be occupied at the end of last year. As reported in the last issue of the Computer News, about 400 network points for staff, and 230 for ACEnet have been installed. All these points can connect at a maximum speed of 100Mbps. The building-based ATM switch joins to the Campus ATM backbone by means of dual 155Mbps optical fibre links extending from the Computer Centre to the building itself.
2. Hing Wai Centre - Altogether about 150 network points, capable of running at 100Mbps, have been installed for the Estates Office and Technology Support Centre, which moved in at the end of December 1999 and early January this year respectively. A T1 (1.5Mbps) link now provides network connection between the Main Campus and the 3 departments in the building (Estates Office, Technology Support Centre and the existing University Press).
3. University Drive No. 2 - About 80 network points were installed during the renovation of 1/F and 2/F, which now houses the Centre of Asian Studies and part of Radioisotope Unit. The building connects by means of optical fibre to the Campus ATM backbone via the Graduate House ATM switch.
4. Knowles Building 1/F - which now houses the Finance Office and part of Estates Office. 185 UTP 100Mbps network points in the Finance Office were installed to replace the old 10Mbps coaxial BNC points. To allow users to take advantage of the faster network infrastructure, we are further arranging for the replacement of old 10Mbps BNC network interface cards with UTP ones supporting 10/100Mbps. 28 network points were also installed for the Estates Office users who moved in Knowles 1/F.
We look forward to reporting more exciting developments of the Campus Network in the coming editions of the Computer News.
T. Y. Shen
Tel: 2241 5229
E-mail: sty@cc.hku.hk