The Virtual Private Network (VPN) has risen fast to become a major networking technology in just a few years. With a VPN, you can send data, via a shared or public network in a manner that emulates a point-to-point private link, between two networks (routers), between two servers, or between a ...

CityU is now connected to Internet2 through a 45 Mbps HARNET connection to Abilene via the STAR TAP (Science, Technology And Research Transit Access Point) interconnection exchange. What is Internet2? Internet2 is a collaborative effort of over 200 U.S. university members working in partnership with ...

In the past few months, thanks to departments' cooperation, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has successfully completed the registration of IP addresses and network cards used on the campus network. This information can help the CSC rectify problems and notify the victim users more quickly. In ...

Like most of the other organisations, our University is experiencing rapid growth in the use of IT at the time when reduction of supporting manpower continues. Seeking ways to optimise the effectiveness and efficiency of the available support work force is inevitably the only solution to the problem ...

Those computers on the campus network with invalid network connection registration information on MAC/IP addresses, users' names, user locations, etc or with no registration at all are like illegal residents in the University cyber-community. Some are using unauthorized or other users' IP addresses ...

If you have been following the issues on how we have been doing to improve the Storage Management for Central Servers, we have mentioned the implementations of the SAN and EDM Backup solutions, and how they can help to improve our storage management. In this issue, we continue our discussion by ...

The Computing Services Centre (CSC) so far has received over 456 server registrations from 50 departments. The largest groups of servers are from MEEM, IS, and DCO having 111, 63 and 34 servers respectively. Apparently many of these servers in the academic departments are accessed by staff and ...

Phase 1 network upgrade was successfully completed in January 2002. In this phase a Gigabit network core was set up with full-redundant links between the core layer and distribution layer switches. Apart from that the network switches in most of the wiring closets on the 6/F and 7/F of the Academic ...

The number of security breaches in our university's computer network has significantly increased in recent years. In the last few months we experienced severe damages brought about by increasingly and highly advanced malicious attacks. The situation will worsen in the near future if we fail to step ...