News
September 2008
by C Y Kwok
This article addresses the measures that the Computing Services Centre (CSC) plans to take to enhance the network infrastructure such that the Internet will remain accessible to users when all the IT services provided from inside the Main Computer Room (MCR) in the Main Campus become unavailable ...
by C Y Kwok
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the first and dominant standard network layer protocol in use by computers and electronic devices to exchange data over the Internet. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses (e.g. 144.214.32.4 in dot-decimal notation), which limits the number of unique addresses to 4.3 ...
June 2008
by John Chan
The Computer Room in the Computing Services Centre (CSC) is the core location where most of the critical IT equipments are resided. The room, built and designed over 20 years ago together with the whole campus, its space was believed to be more than enough when it was first enacted. However, with ...
by S K Tsui
"eduroam" (Education Roaming) is a global wireless network using WPA ( IEEE802.1X) security technology to enable staff and students of a member institution to use the wireless network of another eduroam member with the use of the credentials (user name and password) provided by their home ...
by Dick Wong
As mentioned in the previous article on Campus Network Upgrade ( Ref: Network Computing Issue 54 - December 2007 ), the University’s campus network is currently undergoing a major upgrade, from CTNET III to CTNET IV. The network upgrade consists of 2 phases. Phase 1 of the network upgrade was ...