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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Assam University deploys CISCO and HCL comnet for campus wide-network

GUWAHATI, May 23: With an aim to provide a campus-wide network that would enable students and faculty to access the internet and internet based resources, Assam University, Silchar has selected CISCO and HCL Comnet for widening the network to offer uninterrupted connectivity to its academic community. This will include a campus LAN, a two-tier architecture having C4507R at the core with redundant supervisor, redundant power supply and other measures.Assam University, School of Technology Dean Prof Asoke K Sen said: "Cisco’s network has been supporting and today we believe we have the capability to offer our faculty and students uninterrupted connectivity that can enrich their learning and teaching experience."

Though the university has deployed CISCO’s campus wide network earlier, now Cisco is carrying on a campus upgrade process with the latest Cisco equipments at the University.

Assam University, a teaching cum affiliating University, established in 1994, has nine different schools (including major disciplines such as Social Sciences, Humanities, Languages and others) with 29 departments.

The five districts under the jurisdiction of the University have as many as 51 undergraduate colleges. ASSAM TRIBUNE

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