The next phase for the “high availability” network upgrade project will require an outage to a number of East Campus buildings from 8 a.m. until noon July 26.

Information Technology Services will install a new distribution router that will increase bandwidth and redundancy to East Campus buildings. The project, which began in May 2014, doubles bandwidth to 2 gigabits for most buildings and increases internet capacity through connections to commodity vendors and consortiums Internet2 and OmniPop. Work on City Campus was completed last year.

In information technology, “high availability” refers to a system or component that is continuously operational for a desirably long length of time.

“Our primary goal is to increase the bandwidth to every campus building and strengthen the core redundancy of the network in the case of a disaster and reduce the risk of individual equipment failure,” said Kent Eitzmann, network architect.

All network connections in the following buildings will experience outages during the upgrade times:

• Entomology

• Conservation and Survey Annex

• Library Storage Facility

• Bio-fiber Development Laboratory

• Family Resource Center

• Agricultural Hall

• Chase Hall

• Home Economics

• Love Hall

• Burr Hall

• Fedde Hall

• East Campus Power Plant

• Splinter Laboratories

• Tractor Museum

• Staples Child Development Laboratory

• Fleming Fields Annex

• Leverton Hall

• East Campus Rec

• Hardin Hall

For more information, please contact the UNL Operations Center at 402-472-5653 or operator@unl.edu.