Network Engineering

Team Charge

Primary Customers | Infrastructure | Network Consulting | Partners |

• Primary Customers
  
  • OSU faculty, staff, and students that are responsible for maintaining departmental or unit network infrastructure.
  
  
• Support basic network and network services infrastructure.
  
  • Internet application and networked services (including, but not limited to, archie, news, ftp, gopher, web, tftp, inter-system mail delivery, bootp/dhcp, domain name and time service, X-server, and remote access)
    
    
    • develop new services.
      
      
    • when application in production (no longer under development) transition support to appropriate IS team.
      
      
  • Global OSU faculty, staff and student electronic directory for effective support of mail delivery, maintenance and management.
    
    
  • Remote network access (including dial-in access, frame relay access and other technologies)
    
    
  • Network Backbone (including routers, switches and other related equipment)
    
    
  • Network Management/Monitoring of mission critical network applications and network infrastructure
  
  
• Provide consulting on infrastructure related network services.
  
  
  • Departmental computing, mail and network administrators
    
    
  • Departmental computing services developers
    
    
  • Other IS teams as appropriate
  
  
• Anticipate emerging needs of customers as related to network infrastructure.
  
  
• Explore enhancements and new technologies as related to network infrastructure.
  
  
• Establish and promote appropriate standards for the University Network.
  
  
• Facilitate access to and integration of networked services, in accordance with above standards.
  
  
• Identify metrics, collect data and perform analysis of service data.

The Network Engineering team works closely with the the following teams:

• Community Network
  
  
• Telecommunications
  
  
• Central Computing
  
  
• Operations
  
  
• Other, as appropriate