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Students Amenities Fees

May 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Enterprise Systems, Student Amenities Fee

Late last year the Federal Government introduced the Student Amenities Fee that universities could levy on students to offset some of the costs incurred by the universities to provide various amenities. Student Administration and IT Enterprise Systems staff worked together to implement the new policy. The first phase of the project has completed and already […]

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UNSW Network Extension – Liverpool Hospital/ Bankstown Hospital

May 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Bankstown Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Liverpool Hospital, Networks

New broadband high speed network links to Liverpool and Bankstown Hospitals have been provisioned as part of the state of the art medical and nursing education network for south western Sydney grant with the Faculty of Medicine (South Western Sydney Clinical School). It enables experiential education with campus-based resources and a high definition videoconferencing service […]

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UNSW Network Extension – Pitt Street

May 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Centre for Social Impact

  222 Pitt Street is the new site for the Centre for Social Impact (CSI). The move enables CSI to work collaboratively with innovative thought leading organisations. http://www.csi.edu.au/

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UNSW Network Extension – Enhance Optus mobile coverage for NICTA (L5) Building

May 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Facilities Management, L5, Mobile, Optus

Communication Services are working with Optus and Facilities Management to resolve the limited mobile coverage experienced in this building. This is an important initiative as many international students will use the facilities in L5 as their first experience at UNSW. https://www.it.unsw.edu.au/staff/telephony/optus.html  

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Communications Services Update 2010

January 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Communication Services, Operations Services

Late last year Greg Sawyer ran a session to provide an update on all things related to the IT Communication Services Department. Greg has kindly provided a copy of the presentation so that I can share it online. It is a somewhat lengthy presentation, but there is a wealth of information here for those that […]

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Maple TA 6.0 goes live

November 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Learning & Teaching, Maple TA

After the resolution of a number of interesting teething problems (thanks Darryl!), we now have enough confidence in the service to release Maple TA into production. I’m hopeful that the new features and improvements in version 6 will see a continued uptake of this service. The vendor describes the software as: Maple T.A. is an […]

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New UNSW Data Centre part 2

November 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Despite moving on from the University, Charles has come through with a follow-up article with further details of the UNSW data centre. Thanks Charles! Charles writes: Last blog we covered “Switching”, The new UNSW R1 data centre is designed as a modern 2nd generation High Density data centre. This article covers the components that make […]

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Charles has left the building

October 6th, 2010 · No Comments · General

Since my last update on the new R1 data centre, Charles Nolan has unfortunately left UNSW for greener pastures. Fortunately, Charles did leave me with a copy of his presentation on the data centre that I have posted for your viewing pleasure. Download a copy here but be warned, it is large! (17MB)

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New UNSW Data Centre

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · General

The University has recently commissioned a new data centre on the Randwick campus called the R1 data centre (R1 refers to the number of the building on the Randwick Campus). This data centre will become the primary data centre for the University, with the current data centre on level 14 of the Library building becoming […]

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IT Portfolio News

August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · General

Welcome everyone. This is the first post of what I hope will become a regular series of posts for IT Portfolio news and related articles. This blog will report on the happenings within the IT portfolios and will provide a less formal area for discussion than official information channels such as the IT at UNSW […]

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