The Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN) provides the College of Engineering with one of the world's premier computing environments for engineering-related research and education. This integrated network spans more than 100 faculty and staff offices, laboratories, and classrooms in the Pinchback Engineering building and provides connectivity to more than 500 workstations and servers, including Dell, Gateway, IBM, and Hewlett Packard computers. The backbone of the CAEN consists of an Extreme Networks Black Diamond 6808 chassis containing Gigabit copper and fiber line cards. All servers and the Advanced Computing Laboratory are connected directly to the backbone of the network, thus eliminating network bottlenecks. Ten of the Extreme Network's Summit switches connect student computer laboratories and faculty offices to the Black Diamond 6808 chassis via a 1,000 Mb/s, multi-mode, fiber optic cable. The only protocol in use is TCP/IP; all other protocols have been disabled; including NetBIOS over TCP/IP. This allows us to have a pure TCP/IP network with minimal network chatter. |
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