Cornell Wraps 3-Year Network Upgrade

Campus Technology: Cornell University has formally wrapped up a three-year network connectivity upgrade project at its Ithaca, NY campus, which came in faster and considerably less expensive — $19 million vs. $34 million — than a prior plan. When Ted Dodds joined the university in 2010 as CIO, he set a goal to bring the institution up to par with peer schools. That meant a more modern, standards-based network infrastructure to support its research and educational missions and capable of streaming voice, high-speed data and video. More pragmatically, he also offered a challenge to the IT organization to take on the initiative with far less time and less money than they originally thought possible.

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