NC State IT Facts for Grantwriters

Often granting agencies require proposal writers to provide information about the infrastructure available from the NC State campus. The information below can be useful to grantwriters for this purpose. This page is a work in progress, so if you have any information to add, or information you need, please send a request to help@ncsu.edu. Let the NC State Help Desk know that you have an update or comments regarding this page.

NC State is a charter member of Internet2. The focus of Internet2 is on building high-speed networks and creating advanced technology applications for research, teaching, and learning.

NC State students benefit from an excellent networking infrastructure and connections to global networks:

• Port/pillow switched Ethernet connections are in all residence halls.
• 96% of the 25,130 ports on campus have CAT 5 or CAT 6 wiring.
• 166 campus buildings (88%) are connected to the network with fiber-based 100 MBps or 1000 MBps Ethernet.

The College of Education (CED)

The College of Education implemented wireless hubs for a Nomadic system in which users can use laptops, be assigned dynamic IP addresses using DHCP and authenticate to the campus network. The college has 6 computer labs for teaching.

The CED has invested in a multipoint videoconferencing server which will facilitate H.323 conferencing over the Internet with Webcams and NetMeeting software.

Content last updated October 12, 2005, by Ed Rogers
Page last modified October 12, 2005 by cawalker