1. The University of Chicago
IVY Plus
May 2011

2. Brief Profile Size Facilities
5,027 undergraduate students, 10,122 graduate students
2211 faculty
144 buildings (12 dorms) on 211 acres
Facilities
10Gig core, 1Gig to buildings, 100Meg to desktop (dorms 10Meg)
14 Cisco Cat6K core switches, 1156 aggregate and edge switches, 1230 APs
2 1 Gig, two I2
Cisco Call Manager 8.0; 2 Aastra/Intecom Pointspan PBX, devices
19747 TDM lines; VoIP lines

3. Accomplishments Data Network Largest ATLAS Tier2 site for CERN
Wireless x Dec 2010 and EduRoam Mar 2011
Enterprise VOIP core redesign on Cisco UCCM 8.0
Campus – 4,300 devices complete
Med Center – 500 devices complete
Employee self-moves (reduced field support)
Security- Implemented data center firewall service block (Juniper)
Data Center redesign – 10 GbE on Nexus7K core, combo FC/FCoE
VRF with Dept of Safety & Security for surveillance cameras. (Originally they wanted parallel network of their own)

4. Challenges Security - Perimeter firewall implementation Telephony
Personnel challenge with Union & VOIP
Cell coverage on campus sucks
Dorm phones – do we give options for landline vs cell vs VOIP in rooms
International support
China Center support & India Center planning
Streaming lecture capture on campus – Unicast?
(New) Data Center running out of space

5. Initiatives Wireless Easier Guest access
Continue N rollout (target 12/12)
TEM RFP – carrier contract management, mobile provisioning, invoice auditing, SaaS
Energy Efficiency Monitoring – Sustainability one of President’s 5 initiatives but not sexy enough to garner attention.
DNS replacement – all Infoblox (from BIND slaves) – June 2011
DNSSEC by Dec 2011

6. Initiatives
DAS RFP – replace Mobile Access with vendor neutral, cost neutral
SIP Trunk RFP
New Hospital Pavillion – 12 story med center building (Jan ‘13). VoIP applications?
E911 fully automated
Collaborative Apps Strategy – Unified Messaging, Presence, etc
AV Strategy – desktop to room based to venue based. Tandberg/Cisco combo
HIPAA – data center compliant. Will network be next?
Global Dining Card – surprise! – before we’re MPLS

7. UC Roadmap Cisco Contact Center Express 700 Agents
IVR / Speech Recognition
Work-at-Home Agents
Unity Connection
Exchange Unified Messaging Integration
Voic Broadcast
Mobility and Mobile Apps
Softphone / Mobile 8
Single-Number-Reach for Students (piloting Fall, 2011)
Presence, Jabber
Click-to-dial

8. Data Network Redesign - Current
Spanning Tree Throughout the Network
Single Spanning Tree event affects large portions of the network (or all)
VLANs extended across Campus
Single Link Utilization, even when redundancy present
10 Gbps link limit
Full Internet routing tables on Core
No demarcation to external networks
Long failure recovery times (3 min or greater)

9. Data Network Redesign - Future
Elimination of Spanning Tree problems - Loop-Free Design
Full Link Utilization (40 Gbps initially)
100 Gbps Core within 3 years
Rapid Failure Recovery (< 200 ms)
MPLS on the Core (N7K) and Distribution (still debating N7K or 6500)
Create security zones – Residential, Faculty, HIPAA, BAS
Enable support for advanced networking research projects
ION
DYNES
GENI / OpenFlow
Finally an Edge!
Removes edge/border routing from the core devices, protecting core campus network from routing events impacting all campus networks
Enable multimedia / collaboration applications control at the edge – Telepresence/WebEx
Provide firewall capability at the edge

10. Other ITS Initiatives
Building Mediator – pilot project for Cisco’s John Chambers Research Computing/HPC (?) New EMC SAN – VMAX and NS480 ($$) Moving data centers! Enterprise Monitoring RFP - HP, CASpectrum, OPNET Lecture capture New Molecular Engineering Building (2014) – Gig ports? 10 Gb ports? All Fiber? More Virtual Desktops (VDI) Integrated Uchicago card

11. The University of Chicago
IVY Plus
May 2010