: 15 Million bps Internet Access!
Missouri State University Networking and MOREnet have successfully installed and cut into
production a new Internet connection that is over three times as fast as our old
connection. We now have 15Mb of Internet bandwidth instead of our previous
4.6Mb.
Most Internet users on all campuses should see faster Internet access,
faster downloads, and snapper web pages. Remember that bandwidth bottle
necks exist all over the Internet which are not in Missouri State University's or MOREnet's power to
overcome.
September 15, 1999
Further modification to the network configuration brings the Internet
service to a 15 megabit speed! Monitoring of the previous 10Mb
indicated a high utilization of bandwidth, indicating we were in need of another
increase in bandwidth.
August 31, 1999
Networking is proud to announce the successful installation, testing, and
activation of the new "MOREnet Three" service to Missouri State University at Springfield. The new service is delivered on
an OC-3 circuit over about 100 feet of single mode fiber optic cable from the
MOREnet3 node that is co-located at Missouri State University in the Blair Resident's Hall. Our
new Cisco 7204 gateway router now handles all Internet traffic for all three
campuses.
The service operates in full duplex mode meaning that it can transmit and
receive data at the same time. Transmission speeds are measured in bits
per second (bps) as opposed to bytes per second (Bps). Our old Internet
service consisted of three T1 circuits operating at 1.544Mbps (the M stands for
Million) for about 4.6Mbps of bandwidth. The new service is an OC-3
circuit shaped to 10Mbps with a usable throughput of about 8.4Mbps. Usage
statistics are available online and are updated every five minutes.
Missouri State University West Plains will be receiving it's own 10Mb connection during the early
part of 2000.
The new service had a rocky startup as indicated by the usage chart for last
Thursday (8-26-99), but once the MOREnet router was configured to transmit and
receive at the same time, service has come up and been very reliable.
Initial peaks reached around 82% utilized, but since then our average
utilization peaks are around 75% of the bandwidth.
For more information, please contact one of the Networking
Personnel or submit feedback below.
