Network & QC
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Objectives and Responsibility
This group has been created for promoting R & D activities in area of Networking and Quality management. Major responsibility of this group is to manage, maintain and timely update the campus wide Network and UGC INFONET. One of the major objective of this group is to coordinate with UGC-NETWORK, the wide area network connecting all academic institutions under University Grants Commission for setting/managing data centre for various databases of INFLIBNET, Indian universities, Information Centres. This group is working progressively for implementing Total Quality Control (TQC) for in-house developed software. Training /workshop in the area of network management, security design and state-of-the-art technologies for library professionals across the country is being initiated by the group. Consultancy work in the area of networking, network security of universities/colleges library is also going to become thrust area of this group.
Major Activities
LAN/WAN Setup and maintenance at INFLIBNET.
Assisting Universities/colleges for Campus LAN. Design network security policy of teh centre and UGC Infonet. Network Traffic management. Network resources allocation to the other groups. System administration, configuration and tuning. Database administration and tuning. Disaster recovery plan for e-resources. System maintenance of all IT equipments at Centre. Testing and Quality control of software developed at the centre. Guidelines, suggestions and standards to all development groups for maintaining quality. Infrastructure Well-equipped server laboratory with Intel PIV, Servers running on Linux Enterprise Edition Ver 4, Windows Server 2003, Windows NT/ 2000 Advance Server. Separate mail server and mailing lists are running on Linux. Network chiropractor virginia beach is protected by Firewall running on Linux as well as UTM. Centre has 512 Kbps & 2 Mbps Leased Lines from ERNET for Internet connectivity. New high end RISC server is being added to the existing infrastructure.
UGC Infonet Management "UGC-INFONET" linking more than 149 universities across the country.
Local Area Network INFLIBNET Centre has suggested all the UGC funded universities to set up Local Area Network (LAN) using Hub/Switch and CAT 5/6 cables within their libraries for successful installation of SOUL software. Since SOUL is based on client/server architecture, It is essential that the server and all other nodes be connected by LAN. There are more than 100 nodes connected in LAN in the Centre.
INFLIBNET Centre desires that each university should establish a LAN in it's campus linking all the departments including library. This LAN in turn will be connected to the UGC-INFONET.
All PC memory is upgraded to 2 Gbps. 15 more workstations are under the process of procurement.
Status of Universities Please follow the link given below UGC-Infonet: http://www.ugcinfonet.ernet.in/
Bandwidth Upgraded 55 Universities being Upgraded to 2 Mbps(1:1) see the Xls sheet
Future plans Future areas of research and development Further research and development in the areas of
Upgrading Local Area Network (LAN) with FC backbone, Layer-2, Layer-3 switches(Process initiated). Collaboration with UGC-NETWORK for setting / managing data centre for various databases of INFLIBNET, Indian universities and Information Centers. Setting up network R & D and quality control Lab equipped with state-of-the-art technology at the Centre. Offering consultancy service to the universities / colleges for computerising the libraries including H/W, Local Area Network (LAN). Designing the Network security and disaster recovery plan for data servers. Knowledge sharing with different national and international organization. Promoting Linux operating system in universities. Insuring implementation of different standards for software development and management. Software testing using advanced software available in the market.
Core Members Shri Manoj Kumar K Scientist-D(C.S) manoj[at]inflibnet.ac.in
Supporting Members Shri Ashok Kumar Rai Scientist-D(C.S) ashok[at]inflibnet.ac.in
--Ashok 12:15, 26 September 2008 (IST)
