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The Portsmouth University Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering has its own computer network, which is an autonomous network group, centrally managed by the Department. The network consists of a total of about 200 Desktop Workstations running Linux and Windows. All the routing is through the several owned subnets of the network and is performed by Cisco® and NETGEAR® routers and switches. The Department runs its own servers for anything the network needs (DNS, DHCP, Kerberos, NIS etc). It is a multiplatform transparent network and all computers can be accessed remotely for greater flexibility and use from home, with great care given to security, with sophisticated Firewalls and VPNs in place. Frank Margrave, Principal Lecturer Electronic & Computer Engineering comments “We have 800 users in the departments so the network is quite substantial. This set up allows our students to do hands on work on a live network. We test, configure, fault find, manage and monitor. A live network means we need to have the tools to monitor it in real time.” |
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