Campuswide Networks

Both campus's networks and the statewide network that connects them uses the standards-based TCP/IP protocols. Any networked client workstation that follows our minimum standards will be able to use the digital delivery system being constructed. The minimum transmission speed on the CWRU campus is ten million bits per second (M bps) to each client workstation and a minimum of 155 M bps on each backbone link. The principal document repository is on the IBM System 390, which uses a 155 M bps ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) connection to the campus backbone. The linkage to the University of Akron is by way of the statewide network in which the principal backbone connection from CWRU is also operating at 155 M bps, and the linkage from the UA to the statewide network is at 3 M bps. The on-campus linkage for UA is also a minimum of 10 M bps to each client workstation within the chemical sciences scholarly community and to client workstations in the UA university library.