Campus Data Networking Architecture:
Setting the Stage

Penn: Large, urban, private research university; decision making largely decentralized
- 22,000 students total, 10,000 undergraduate
- Undergraduate schools: Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Nursing, Wharton
- Grad/Prof: Annenberg School for Communication, Dental, Education, Fine Arts, Law, Medicine, Social Work, Veterinary Medicine (Vet School has second campus 35 miles west)
- Major teaching hospital
- Annual budget of $1.9 billion
Network becoming infused into all aspects of university life: near-universal e-mail, research computing, telecommuting
Possibility of data/voice/video integration looming
Still repaying debt on obsolete elements of current network

Please address comments or questions to Dr. Noam Arzt, arzt@isc.upenn.edu [6/13/96]
URL: http://nextb.dccs.upenn.edu/noam/questnet96/arch/intro.html