November 3, 2021
Tech News November 2021 Top News State of Technology address set for November 17: Dr. Timothy M. Chester’s annual State of Technology address will be on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., this will be held via Zoom. All University students, faculty and staff are welcome to join. To register for this event visit, https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYocuipqzsvH9OUuHpbquudLvOkKkZekMAe. For more information, contact Lynn Wilson at llatimer@uga.edu. IT Services in Action More than $1M in campus wireless upgrades planned: EITS will soon begin work on more wireless upgrades in buildings across the Athens, Buckhead and Griffin campuses. These upgrades are part of EITS’s work to continuously improve wifi connectivity and coverage to support teaching, learning and student life. The $1.2 million project, funded by Student Technology Fees, includes wireless refreshes and redesigns in the following buildings: Caldwell Hall, Brooks Hall, Boyd Graduate Studies, Pharmacy North & South, the Davison Life Sciences Complex, the Coverdell Center, the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Graduate Housing on Rogers Road, University Housing Buildings J,K, and L, Brown Hall, Russell Hall, Creswell Hall, Mell Hall, Lipscomb Hall, Church Hall, Boggs Hall, Oglethorpe House and the Griffin Campus. More access point replacements are also planned at the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Ramsey Student Center, the Science Learning Center, the Terry-Buckhead campus and Wright Hall, Rhodes Hall, Miller Hall and Russell Hall at the Health Sciences Campus. In addition, more improvements to outdoor wireless are planned for spaces north of Meigs Hall, along Herty Drive, Myers Quad and the greenspace on the north side of Grady College, and PAWSSecure access will be added to areas of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, except the hotel. EITS technicians are working with departments to determine timelines for implementation. Work is expected to be completed by June 2022. For more information, contact Chris Fleming at cfleming@uga.edu. Major network bandwidth expansion under way to improve connectivity: EITS networking staff are working on a multi-year project to upgrade building routers, increasing network bandwidth for research and allowing for 10G connectivity. The Building Edge Router Refresh project will upgrade the current building edge routers and cabling in 180 buildings to a new platform that connects buildings back to the university’s core network. Buildings completed in October include the Savannah River Ecology Lab, VetMed Complex, Mary Lyndon, Payne Hall, Morris Hall, Lipscomb Hall, Mell Hall, the Family Housing
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