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CLASnet provides a wide range of network services to our users within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
CLASnet operates a very large email system. All faculty, staff and graduate assistants with assistantships may get email accounts from CLASnet for no charge. These accounts are highly functional, providing multi-protocol access, and without the restrictive disk quotas that hamper the UF-wide general-purpose and undergraduate student mail servers. We support most Internet standards for email, including SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and SSL-IMAP4 protocols for remote mail access.
All CLASnet email accounts support Internet addresses of the form name@unit.ufl.edu where unit is the DNS (web) name of the department and name is a userid of the person's choice. In addition, CLASnet hosts a large and growing collection of special-purpose email lists. Web-based archives of messages sent to these lists are available, if requested by the list administrator at the time of list creation.
The CLAS Netware servers provides secure disk space, licensed software, and remote print services to client computers throughout the College. CLASnet staff administer these servers, archive the data for disaster recovery, license, install and upgrade the software distributed from the server, relieving departmental contacts from running from machine to machine, installing software "by hand".
Of the 44 departments, centers, institutes, and programs in the College 30 make use of the Netware server. The other CLAS units provide their own file, print, & web services.
CLASnet operates a very large and prominent campus web server. We host about 30 unit web pages, in addition to the Dean's Office pages on this server. We also host personal web pages for those users with CLASnet accounts.
CLASnet designs, purchases, installs, maintains, and upgrades the physical network infrastructure in the College buildings. This including faceplate wiring, horizontal and vertical network cabling, repeaters, hubs, switches, routers and other active electronics. This infrastructure provides network access from drops in college rooms to the network "points of presence" in each building.
CLASnet directly administers the points of presence in four buildings (Turlington, Rolfs, Griffin-Floyd, and Dauer), which connect to the CLAS switch in Rolfs Hall. Most other buildings connect to the campus network, which then connects to the Rolfs Hall switch.
The physical network in all CLAS buildings is owned and operated by the College and its departments. Departments with properly-trained technical staff in their own buildings manage their local networks on behalf of the College. In all other college buildings (15 out of 21), CLASnet administers all of the intra-building networking.
When needed, CLASnet will sub-contract wiring installers to provide networking service. In the recent past, private contractors have installed wiring in CLAS buildings, but in all cases, this work is supervised by CLASnet.
Each computer connected to the network needs an IP (Internet Protocol) number to operate. This is similar to a phone number. Like phone numbers, IP numbers come in bunches called subnets. CLASnet manages the subnets, assigns IP numbers, and maintains BOOTP/DHCP and DNS servers to provide these IP services in college buildings.
As IP numbers at UF are a precious commodity, they must be carefully managed to ensure that subnets are properly allocated with high rates of utilization. CLASnet has been a campus leader in IP number management, introducing many techniques that are being adopted by other units across campus. Our utilization of IP numbers is very efficient, our records are excellent and our response to requests for numbers is virtually immediate.
CLASnet staff work with department contacts to ensure that most every computer can use network services. This includes networked printing, Internet access, email, web, and other network services.
In general, CLASnet staff does not unbox or set up individual computers, install local software or repair computers. These tasks are best performed by the department contacts, or where contacts can not perform these tasks, out-sourced to local repair shops or on-campus facilities.
The NWE labs host up to 110 different courses each semester, including first-year composition & rhetoric, intermediate media studies, and graduate seminars in critical theory & genre studies.
CLASnet staff maintain these multimedia labs, complete with Windows NT servers and 70 workstations.
CLASnet staff maintain this multimedia lab, complete with its Windows NT server and 31 workstations.
CLASnet staff maintain these writing labs, complete with Sun Solaris servers and 160 workstations.
CLASnet staff serve on various university committees to represent the College's technical interests.
CLASnet offers training to department contacts to assist them in providing support for faculty and staff in their units.
In addition to the above services, CLASnet provides low-level network support such as network time, security, and network monitoring.
In all our efforts CLASnet strives to support the academic work of the units, respecting unit diversity and working to find appropriate solutions for the disciplines.
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Last updated: May 06, 2007 (03:38:20 PM EDT)
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