Intra-Building Wiring Projects

The IBW projects include data communications wiring upgrades to allow moving from shared 10 Mb/s networks to higher speed switched networks, as well as providing networking connections to locations that currently have no access to the campus data backbone network. This is a multi-year initiative that seeks to address the most critical data communications wiring needs.

Phase I Network Wiring Projects

In April 2000 a call went out to all academic departments asking them to identify critical network wiring needs. We received eighteen projects with most requesting wiring for entire buildings, a couple of requests for some smaller remediation, and some requests for inter-building connections. The Information Technology Planning Group (ITPG), a broadly based group of campus technical staff, reviewed the requests. Following a discussion by the full ITPG, four of its members, representing the organizations that submitted the projects, prioritized them. Six projects were assigned Priority 1 and were considered funded. As these projects developed we determined that we had enough funds to include the next highest prioritized project that also had a deadline of summer 2001. The eleven unfunded projects were rolled into the Phase II process. Table 1 lists the funded projects for Phase I. The estimated completion date for all of the Phase I projects is May 30, 2003.

In March 2001 a call went out to all departments asking them to identify critical network wiring needs. The forty-one projects totaling $3,540,000 that were submitted for consideration for Phase II Network Wiring Project funding represent a broader spectrum of campus; more control points were involved and more consideration of design was required. Most of the preliminary effort for this phase was to listen to our customer’s needs and develop a process for prioritizing the projects. Once we had prioritized lists from each control point, we merged the prioritized lists into a single list and indicated which projects would be funded based on the funds that we had available at the time. This list was proposed and agreed to in our IT project proposal submitted to the ITPG in December 2001. The ITPG ranked this proposal highly, and the ITB later ranked the proposal highly in March 2002. We announced that the projects under scenario I were “funded” and then we began consultation to determine if there were any projects that had strict deadline requirements. We met with Communications Services staff to coordinate with any construction projects that may impact the projects. The twenty-two unfunded projects will be rolled into the Phase III process. Table 2 lists the funded projects for Phase II.

In June 2005 a call went out to all departments asking them to identify critical network wiring needs. New projects were submitted and cost estimates were generated for the projects. Staff met with the associated control points so that they could prioritize their projects. Of the seventeen unfunded projects, three may be implemented under the Phase III process, depending on funding. Table 3 lists the current projects for Phase III.