IVY Plus 2012 at Harvard Presented by Kathy Frazer

Dartmouth Profile Students: –4,200 undergrad / 1,800 graduate Faculty: –995 Tenured and Non-Tenured Buildings: –140 buildings on 269 acres Data Centers –2 primary data centers (on-campus & 5 miles away )

Network Facilities Cisco Nexus 7000’s at the core – 10 gig connections –Process underway to remove older Cat 6500’s. Building and distribution connections moving to 10gig ISP services –2 ISP vendors providing 1 gbps each –I2 connection at 155mbps –Big Green Panther state-wide fiber backbone – terminates at NOX in Boston Cisco 35xx, 37xx switching at edge closets –Gig Ethernet going forward Single and multi-Mode fiber to all buildings Copper Plant - Cat 5 through Cat6A –Split pair issues –10gig (cat6A) for Academic, Cat6e for all others Converting to Cisco 11N (1800 AP’s) – Wiring to convert AP drops to gig. VoIP – Upgrade to Cisco CM 8.5 on UCS VM’s for subscribers – –The Publisher is a stand alone server. –8,000 end points

Network Accomplishments Network upgrade –Removal of the old core 6500’s –Deployed over 900 new Cisco AP’s N –Began edge conversion’s – approx. 50% completed Border Tools enhancements: –Upgraded Stealthwatch and Tipping Point – Added Palo Alto border monitoring appliances New Life Sciences Center. –Over 2,500 network ports throughout the building. Upgraded our IPTV system to the new Haivision system –Total 64 channels with 20 serving HD content. Hosted the fall 2012 Republican debate

New Initiatives Big Green Panther – Statewide fiber project –Dartmouth and UNH to be anchor tenants and have access via IRU to 12 pair of dark fiber –Link allows us to terminate at NOX - more BW at lower cost –Working with current provider Level3 to connect at NOX at 10gig We will utilize our current Level3 pipe on campus as a backup to the NOX connection We will receive 2 gig’s of commodity BW over the NOX link Visual Arts Center –New 105,000 square feet of classroom and academic space –1,500 data ports served by Cisco 4500 chassis –65 AP’s throughout building

New Initiatives To the CLOUD with you –After many years of home grown Blitz system –Moved to Microsoft Office 365 – close to completion –Services Mail, Calendar, Link online, Sharepoint IPv6 – We have a registered space with ARIN –Need to project plan on routing and converting 2012 – 2013 Upgrade Firewalls from 6500 blades to ASA 5585 appliances Upgrade VPN concentrators. Likely to stay with Juniper –Improve high availability as expanded use is expected

New Initiatives Wireless authentication – –Moving away from personal PKI certs to Cloudpath fall 2012 Border routers – –Upgrading border routers to Cisco ASR 1006 –Currently using catalyst-6500’s DAS – making some progress with AT&T –Discussions are underway for our Life Sciences building in 2012 and then 2013 campus wide