Due to a shortage of space, the university is exploring various ways to accommodate new staff and academic programmes. One way of tackling this problem is to adopt a “core-satellite” approach. The “core” represents premises in the Kowloon Tong main campus while “satellite” refers to remote offices ...

Overview Since the setup of student residence in year 2000, the number of users has grown from 800 to about 2800 this year. Furthermore, with the completion of phase 4 early next year, the number of residents will be further increased to around 3500. With the increase in the population and ...

Cloud Computing is a promising technology trend for the provisioning of IT services. Many datacenters have been moving towards the Cloud service model. The Computer Science Laboratory (CSLab) has started to build a departmental private Cloud in 2008. Most IT services of the Department of Computer ...

Introduction The University’s data network (CTNET – City University Campus Network) has undergone several major upgrades since its creation in 1985. Each major upgrade represents the adoption of the latest state-of-the-art networking technologies and standards. The network has evolved from circuit ...

The Hong Kong Academic and Research Network (HARNET) is the wide-area network that links the campus networks of the eight tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and connects them to the Internet, the TEIN2 and other research and academic networks. The HARNET is managed by the Joint Universities Computer ...

Due to the pervasive availability of Wi-Fi devices such as notebook computers and smart phones , the demand for wireless connectivity throughout the universit y has grow n significantly in the past few years. Recently, we have received complaints saying that users experienced bad throughput in ...

Similar to the eduroam service, Universities Wi-Fi is a free collaborative Wi-Fi network offered by the JUCC institutions (CityU, HKU, CUHK, PolyU, HKUST, HKBU, LU and HKIEd) since year 2009 allowing staff and students of any member institution to log on and use the WLANs while they visit the other ...

As a VIP to the CityU, alumnus can now enjoy free Wireless LAN (WLAN) service anywhere inside the campus to access the Internet. Being a registered user of the CityU-Net Basic Service , alumnus can use any IEEE802.11a/b/g/n compliant wireless device, whether it is a wifi phone, PDA or notebook ...

Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) is the technology integrating Voice over IP (VoIP, the technology used in the IP Phone system) and WLAN technology, enabling the Computing Services Centre (CSC) to e nhance the current phone service to include wifi phones in mobile communication support. The wifi phones ...

The need for the SAN Storage Upgrade Following the established policy of storage consolidation, a Network Storage System (NSS) based on EMC storage subsystem was first installed in 2001 as the standard platform for providing central and shared storage for the entire University. Since then, this ...