What are the advantages of using these fiber optic lines?
The main advantages to using the ICCN’s fiber optic lines are: • The ability to connect all three University campuses in high-availability, redundant, and cost-efficient manner. • Major per-unit cost savings for bandwidth. • Increased network capacity for the academic and research needs of scholars and researchers at a world-class research university. • Greater flexibility, scalability, and reliability in terms of configuring future telecommunications needs, allowing the University to make decisions based need rather than cost. The University previously used several commercial services for its networking systems. These services were expensive and were usually designed to meet corporate communications needs rather than the unique needs of a large research university. With the ICCN, the University has access to a virtually unlimited amount of bandwidth for only a marginal cost increase over what it used to pay for commercial communications circuits. The University also manages the networ
