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In Building Wired Networks allow campus to communicate through wired connections for their computers, printers, and other teaching, learning, and research devices that required an ethernet connection.
ITS provides one wired network on campus for students, faculty, and staff.
As our campus networks are deployed or renovated, ITS works to adopt new and cost effective infrastructure solutions that provide both high speeds and reliability. At this time, our standard for new wired connections include:
- Cat5e copper cabling  delivering 1 Gb/s speed. We also support older campus standards of Cat3 cabling which delivers either 100 Mb/S or 10 Mb/S. These standards will continue to be supported, even as infrastructure is upgraded, as some devices require lower speed communications.
- 2 wired connections per faceplate in offices, classrooms, and labs—1 for data and 1 for voice. This provides data and phone connections today, and the ability to reconfigure the voice connection in the future if the campus moves to VoIP phone technology.
This wired network currently provides campus up to 40 Gb/s connections to the commodity internet and up to 100Gb/s to Internet2 and our research networks.
Wired networking is a recommended mature technology with high adoption across campus. ITS anticipates that a robust wired network will continue to be required on campus over time, as it supports WiFi connections today and likely will support phone and video connections in the future. ITS has proposed a $35 million dollar Upgrade Campus Wired Networks project that is being considered by university leaders.