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MTU Telecommunications — Quick Facts
 
 

Physical Plant:
Fiber optical backbone cables: over 37 KM
Copper cabling: 30,200 jacks; over 1,000,000 feet of category 6 cable installed in 2004-2005
Microwave facilities: Six point-to-point links


Network Core:
ClassEquipmentCapacityEquipped
CarrierJuniper MX960 Router960 Gbps80 Gbps
Enterprise  Juniper J6350 Router  40 Gbps8 Gbps
EnterpriseJuniper J4350 Router25 Gbps8 Gbps
CarrierJuniper M10i Router13 Gbps6 Gbps - coming soon
CarrierJuniper M160 Router204 Gbps16.8Gbps - retiring in late 2007
CarrierFoundry RX-16 Switch1.6 Tbps1.4 Tbps - upgrade in early 2008
EnterpriseFoundry MG8 Switch600 Gbps240 Gbps
Network Building/Aggregation Switches:

Foundry FastIron 800/1500: up to 480 Gbps
Foundry FESX424/448
Foundry FES12GCF


Network Edge Switches:

Legacy, (26 installed Nov 2007)
Marconi ES-1200: 8 Gbps.

Upgraded, (254 installed Nov 2007)
Foundry FES-2402/4802POE: 38 Gbps

   
Oversubscription ratios: Oversubscription ratios: (on new aggregation switch)

10 Mbps 2:1
100 Mbps 20:1*

10 Mbps none
100 Mbps 4.8:1

  Oversubscription ratios: (on legacy aggregation switch)
 

10 Mbps 4.8:1
100 Mbps 48:1*

* Oversubscription ratios over 6:1 may impact end-user performance.
Network Edge Wireless Access Points:
Cisco 1231 802.11b/g APs 234
Cisco Aironet 350 802.11b APs 3

Misc. Facts and Figures (As of November 1, 2007)
Campus connection speeds from dialup to 10 Gigabit Ethernet!

Resnet hosts: over 2990
Non-Resnet network hosts: 7675

10 Mbps: 3456
100 Mbps: 533
100M Multihost: 734 connections (2532 hosts)
1000 Mbps: 12

Phones in academic / administrative areas: 1500
Phones in residence halls: 1150
Active voicemail boxes: 1400
MTU Cable subscribers: over 1350
MTU Cable channels: over 50
MTU Cellphone subscribers: over 1800
 
 
 
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