Wi-Fi is one of the most common technologies that provide users with a convenient way to connect their mobile devices to the campus network/Internet. Over 3,200 Wi-Fi access points (APs) are currently installed across the CityU campus. As a step forward for the University to offer Wi-Fi services ...

City University of Hong Kong (hereafter CityU) aspires to become a leading global university, excelling in research and professional education. To address the growing needs arising from our strategic interdisciplinary research areas as laid out in our Strategic Plan 2020–2025, the Computing Services ...

City University of Hong Kong has full Wi-Fi coverage in the entire campus, powered by over 2,800 Access Points (APs). These APs are all Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac Wave2) compatible. Subsequent to a recent Internet bandwidth upgrade, the individual bandwidth control is unleashed. In other words, users using ...

Due to the recent COVID-19 breakout, many foreign students have been forced to return home to continue their study via online learning. With the huge demand for remote access to the CityU campus network, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has been working hard to enhance the capacity of the Virtual ...

The Primary Data Centre at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) will be relocated to make room for several strategic initiatives and the setting up of additional web laboratories. The Primary Data Centre relocation project is divided into two phases: the first phase is scheduled to complete by the ...

The CityU WLAN upgrade project began in 2017 ( Ref: Network Computing Issue 92 – June 2017 ? ) and has been ongoing for more than two years. During this period, the outdated Aruba Wi-Fi system was replaced to support the 5th generation of Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5). Up until now the Computing ...

Introduction CityU currently maintains its own datacenters to provide an IT infrastructure supporting diverse services for teaching, research, administrative, and management use. Dated back a few decades ago, we have adopted a three-tier architecture consisting of compute, storage and networking ...

It is very common nowadays for students and staff to access research data, journals and courses online offered by other education institutions or companies over the Internet. The access usually requires users to sign up and create different user accounts. This article will detail how the Computing ...

Background? Information System Security has been a key concern over the past many years as more and more business processes rely on Information Technology to operate. Alike many other organizations, the usual first line of defense would be Internet protection with security devices such as a ...

What is IoT? The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to billions of network devices, sensors and actuators around the world capable of gathering data (e.g. temperature, location, etc.) from the environment and sharing the data across the Internet. The data collected will then be analyzed, processed and ...