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Networking Service Options

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Networks for Departments

Provides assistance with designing, installing, maintaining, and managing networks on the main university campus and PRC

Cost: Cost depends on services needed

  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Technical Staff
  • Departments
  • Installation of both cabling and network ports
  • Helping with the design of wired and wireless networks in public areas and private offices
  • Assisting with activation of network outlets and troubleshooting a network connection
  • Providing network equipment maintenance on a yearly contractual basis

Cabling and Wiring

ITS runs data cables for voice, video, and data services

Cost: Cost depends on services needed

  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Technical Staff
  • Departments
  • Available for all buildings on the main campus as well as PRC
  • Cable types include Ethernet (CAT 5E) and fiber optic
  • New Ethernet and fiber systems are wired to current TIA/EIA standards
  • Maintenance and repair of installed cabling and hardware is included for the life of the cable

Network and Domain Registrar Services

Register your utexas.edu, utexas.org, or utexas.net domain name; hosts subdomains under the utexas.net and utexas.org domains, as well as custom domains

Cost: Cost depends on services needed

  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Technical Staff
  • Departments
  • Register your utexas.edu, utexas.org, or utexas.net subdomain (for official university business), or register a custom domain
  • Request an IP address assignment on campus to run your own server
  • Register devices with an appropriate host name for DNS service

FTP Server

Provides exact copies (mirrors) of popular FTP sites on local campus computers

Cost: No cost

  • Students
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Technical Staff
  • Departments
  • Access popular mirrored sites such as Apple, FreeBSD, MySQL, Netscape, Perl, RedHat Linux, and Windows

Network Time Protocol (NTP) Services

Used to synchronize computer clocks to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Cost: No cost

  • Technical Staff
  • Provides accurate time to your computer clocks
  • Two stratum 2 NTPv4 servers available: 128.83.185.40 (ntp1.utexas.edu) or 128.83.185.41 (ntp2.utexas.edu)