Racing towards 10Gigabit Ethernet
A university data centre may not seem the place to adopt leading edge technology, given that publicly-funded institutes are chronically short of money.
But as Andrew McAusland, associate vice-president of instructional and IT services at Canada's Concordia University points out, universities have unique clients.
Every year some 12,000 new students and their new technology - laptops with faster wireless accessing high-bandwidth social networking applications, for example - demand online satisfaction. Which is why six months ago, McAusland started experimenting with 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Not a wholesale rip and replace, but in select spots-between some servers in the gateway, in places where there are large file transfers.
