The Telecommunications (Telcom) Department is responsible for providing quality voice, data, and video services to all university constituents, as well as maintaining a robust telecommunications infrastructure. Services include data network connections (both wired and wireless), telephone services, pagers, television, and many others. Telcom is a division of the Office of Information Technology at Michigan Tech.
FEATURED SERVICE
Residence Life Network (Resnet)
Service Available for: Students
Contact
906-487-1111
it-help@mtu.edu
The Residence Life Network, more commonly known as Resnet, provides students living in the Residence Halls and the Michigan Tech Apartments with high speed access to electronic resources both on campus and around the world.
Resnet is designed to work with 802.1x authentication. Michigan Tech offers the 802.1x network protocol to provide students with a secure connection to our network. Resnet is covered in the room and board costs for all campus residents and is supported by IT User Services.
FEATURED SERVICE
Rovernet
Enterprise Solution
Service Available for: Students, Staff & Faculty
Contact
906-487-1111
it-help@mtu.edu
Rovernet offers a WPA2 Enterprise Solution that gives students, staff, and faculty greater flexibility and security when accessing the campus wireless network. The "MichiganTech" (SSID) is only accessible via WPA2 (PEAP) authentication. Once authenticated, the traffic is encrypted. To obtain access to this encrypted network, wireless clients need to configure their devices for WPA2 authentication.