Tag Archives: infrastructure

Cellular service enhancements at the Big House: A bridge to what’s next

By | September 1, 2023
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The Michigan Stadium - the perspective is on the field at the 50 yard line looking toward the bleachers and a partly sunny, partly cloudy sky.

Michigan Stadium has had a busy summer preparing for a new season of Michigan Football. From scoreboards to Buddy’s Pizza, there are new experiences awaiting fans, including improved cellular service. Two carriers worked with Information & Technology Services (ITS), Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC), Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), Facilities and Operations (F&O), and Michigan Athletics IT to… Read More »

Cellular 5G upgrades accelerate across campus

By | April 26, 2023
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A symbol for WiFi with four cell phones overlaid.

ITS is accelerating efforts to deliver improved 5G cellular service on the U-M Ann Arbor campus. Over the past few months ITS project teams, collaborating with numerous campus departments and integration partners, have delivered significant advancements for the ITS Cellular Service Improvements Project. These include: These latest improvements follow the 5G upgrade at Crisler Center in November 2022… Read More »

Investigating ways to extend cellular and WiFi capabilities on campus through Passpoint

By | March 2, 2023
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A symbol for WiFi with four cell phones overlaid.

ITS Infrastructure has launched a proof-of-concept (POC) to simplify and extend cellular and WiFi capabilities on the UM-Ann Arbor campus using Passpoint. U-M Passpoint is a WiFi feature for smartphones, offered to university guests as an easy, secure alternative to the eduroam WiFi network. It eliminates the need for guest smartphone users to find and authenticate to a… Read More »

5G upgrade now at Crisler Center

By | December 8, 2022
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In November, Information and Technology Services (ITS) partnered with Verizon and U-M Athletics to complete a project to launch C-band 5G cellular service at Crisler Center – which is now among the first indoor arenas in the country to offer this technology. The new service enhances the connectivity experience for our student-athletes and fans and delivers a highly… Read More »

U-M first in nation to offer WiFi 6E; universitywide accomplishment is an investment in the future

By | June 28, 2022
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The University of Michigan and University of Michigan Dearborn square logos stacked on top of each other against a pastel rainbow background. To the right is a large, blue WiFi icon.

The University of Michigan is the first university in the nation to offer WiFi 6E to students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors on the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses. Learn how the WiFi Upgrade Project team replaced more than 16,000 wireless access points (APs) in over 225 indoor and outdoor locations despite a global chip shortage and supply chain disruptions.

Amy Peters named director of research computing and infrastructure, LSA Technology Services

By | December 10, 2020
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Amy Peters

LSA Technology Services is pleased to announce that Amy Peters has been named our new director of research computing and infrastructure services, and joins the LSA Technology Services leadership team effective Monday, December 7. Peters was selected for the position from a competitive and diverse candidate pool after a comprehensive search that began in February 2020, but was… Read More »

Big data, small footprint

By | March 27, 2020
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At a time when we’re relying on the internet to an unprecedented degree in our daily lives, a team of U-M researchers led by Mosharaf Chowdhury and Harsha Madhyastha has found a way for tech companies, banks and health systems to squeeze more capacity out of our existing infrastructure. A change to the design of big-data software tool Apache Spark could enable the… Read More »

University leaders approve investment in core network upgrade

By | February 20, 2020
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What does it take to connect the #1 public research  university in the U.S. to the rest of the world? The answer is a powerful network, that allows faculty, students, staff, and researchers on the U-M Ann Arbor campus to reach and share enormous amounts of information with their partners around the world. The data network is the… Read More »

U-M receives grant to develop secure, high-capacity research network

By | January 28, 2020
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Several University of Michigan units have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for a project that will enhance the university’s network security and assist the needs of its research community. NetBASILISK — short for Network Border At Scale Integrating and Leveraging Individual Security Components — is a collaborative effort that… Read More »

Network file transfer speed reaches 100Gbps

By | December 13, 2019
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100 Gbps network transfer speed

One hundred gigabits per second (Gbps) is the new standard for network speeds when transferring files from the Great Lakes high-performance computing cluster to the Turbo Research Storage service.  Why is this significant?  Usually network speeds for file transfers are 1Gbps. That’s perfectly fine for most people’s needs. But reaching speeds of 100Gbps represents a new, higher level… Read More »

ITS hosts Big Ten networking group meeting

By | October 17, 2019
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Big Ten Academic Alliance logo

On October 10-11, the U-M ITS network group hosted the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), bi-annual network leaders collaboration gathering. Close to 50 network and IT leaders from member universities of the Big Ten Network Directors and WiFi Group/IT Networking Group met at the Graduate Hotel in Ann Arbor. The last time the meeting was in Ann Arbor… Read More »