"Fortunately, for almost all end-user purposes, switched 10 Mbps should be sufficient…switching to 100 Mbps everywhere would be massively expensive," Martin says.
Harvard's connection to the outside world is also being upgraded.
"Bandwidth use has been growing steadily over the past year… it's a steep climb," says Manager of Network Engineering and Planning Leo Donnelly.
With increasing demand for Internet access, streaming video, music and other media, peak traffic can hit the upper bounds of Harvard's connection.
As a result, Donnelly explains, UIS has been "monitoring closely" bandwidth demands. Several Internet service providers have been contacted to price an upgrade to a full OC-3 connection, a 155 Mbps connection.
Harvard's current connection, a DS-3, is at 90 Mbps.
"The process is well in the works," Donnelly says. At latest, the new connection would be implemented this summer.
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