{"id":20507,"date":"2020-09-11T11:58:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=20507"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:48","slug":"northwood-iv-v-get-network-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/11\/northwood-iv-v-get-network-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwood IV &#038; V get network upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of Northwood 4 apartments with flowers and bicycles in the foreground.\" class=\"wp-image-20509\"\/><figcaption>(U-M Housing)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For ITS Infrastructure teams the Labor Day weekend was not a holiday &#8212; they were working down to the wire, fighting through bad weather in Ann Arbor to complete work on North Campus to complete a much needed network upgrade to Northwoods IV &amp; V whose apartments are home to many U-M graduate students and their families.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past spring when the university had to shift to remote classes in just three days, residents at Northwood IV &amp; V reported issues with poor network connectivity and performance issues with videoconferencing services, making it difficult for students to complete their courses.&nbsp; Knowing that this fall semester would consist of classes both in-person and remote, ITS invested in network improvements to these important housing facilities to ensure U-M students would have a better experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Providing updates to networking at these facilities has long been a challenge for University Housing and ITS because, unlike other campus buildings, Northwood IV &amp; V has coaxial cabling, rather than fiber-optic. ITS teams found a solution to leverage the existing coaxial cabling and enhance it with a new, modern design and electronics that allowed them to keep the upgrade costs low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the weekend of August 29-30, network teams cut over to the new and improved network. Northwood residents should now experience performance that is improved by 4-10 times.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For ITS Infrastructure teams the Labor Day weekend was not a holiday &#8212; they were working down to the wire, fighting through bad weather in Ann Arbor to complete work on North Campus to complete a much needed network upgrade to Northwoods IV &amp; V whose apartments are home to many U-M graduate students and their families.\u00a0 This\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/11\/northwood-iv-v-get-network-upgrade\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":20509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[810,256,96,83],"class_list":["post-20507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-services","tag-covid","tag-network","tag-students","tag-wifi"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-e1600359157981.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-e1600359157981.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-e1600359157981.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nw4-e1600359157981.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Patty Giorgio, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/pgiorgio\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"For ITS Infrastructure teams the Labor Day weekend was not a holiday &#8212; they were working down to the wire, fighting through bad weather in Ann Arbor to complete work on North Campus to complete a much needed network upgrade to Northwoods IV &amp; V whose apartments are home to many U-M graduate students and&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20523,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions\/20523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}