1. Presented by Frank Archambeault
IVY Plus 2011 at Dartmouth
Presented by
Frank Archambeault

2. Dartmouth Profile Students: Faculty: Buildings: Data Centers
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 )

3. Network Facilities
Nexus 7000’s and Cisco 6500’s (layer2) at the core – 10 gig connections
Gig uplinks to all buildings – being converted to 10gig
ISP services
2 ISP vendors providing 200mbps each
I2 connection at 155mbps
Big Green Panther state-wide fiber bacbone
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
Aruba Wireless (1,500AP’s) – converting to Cisco 11N (1800 AP’s)
Video Furnace IPTV – upgrade pending
VoIP - Cisco CM 7.1.x – upgrading to CM 8.5
8,000 end points

4. Network Accomplishments
Completed design and purchase of network upgrade
Deployed new Nexus core switches
Began deployment of N (cabling challenges)
Began edge conversion’s
Deployed Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System)
2 stand-alone systems operational in each data center
Built with 3 chassis supporting approx. 33 half-height blades
Each system built with dual 6120 Fabric Interconnects
Built-out 3 Emergency Operation centers across campus
Deployed SIP trunking with our carrier PaeTec
Converted machine room to gig row switching
Upgraded Stealthwatch – border monitoring appliances

5. Upcoming Challenges Border security tools Financial Network upgrade
New money is hard to come by
Thankful for previous leasing, dollars are part of operating budget
Network upgrade
Scheduling
Campus demands for services
2 major building projects coming on-line
Wireless
Overall growth of wireless use
Cisco N
Split pair wiring
Voice
Converting to UCS and CM 8.x
Cellular coverage
Border security tools
Evaluating Palo Alto, Tipping Point, Fortinet

6. New Initiatives Buildout and deployment of Haivision IP-TV system
Moving to some HD content (20 encoders)
Testing new infrastructure from Haivision
Reviewing content providers (Comcast, Campus Tele-video)
Where does Web based services fit
What is the service we deliver?
Big Green Panther
Participation in State wide fiber plant (EpScor and BTOP)
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 and derive more BW at lower cost
Determine bandwidth needs and changes to our providers

7. New Initiatives To the CLOUD with you
After many years of home grown Blitz system
Moving to Microsoft Office 365
Some conversions are underway, plan for 2015’s to go Cloud
Services:
Mail, Calendar, Link online, Sharepoint
Concerns about border bandwidth and timing of Big Green Panther
IPv6 – We have a registered space with ARIN
Need to project plan on routing and converting