UNIVERSITI KUALA LUMPUR

Malaysian Institute of Information Technology

INB35705
MULTILAYER SWITCHING

ASSIGNMENT 1

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Campus Network
A campus network is where one building or a group of buildings connected into one
enterprise network consisting of one or more LANs. It generally uses LAN
technology and deploys a campus design that is optimized for the fastest functional
architecture over existing wire.

Figure 1
A college or university campus area network usually covers academic building,
student hostel building, staff and lecturer residential building, library building, sports
complex building and other possible building that may exist in a college or university
area like shown in Figure 1. Meanwhile, corporate campus area network may cover
the company branches building and their clients company building.

Figure 2
Figure 2 shows a small campus network that collapses the campus backbone and
building distribution submodules in the campus backbone submodule. It can scale up
to several Building Access switches. Meanwhile, in Figure 3 shown is a larger
campus network that connecting several buildings.

Figure 3

Example of Campus Area Network Implementation

1. Stanford University's SUNet network
EE, CS and Medical grad students originally started the research project. The
project is then assembled by networking staff in 1983 as a unit of Centre for
IT. The original funding grant is made by the Board of Trustees and the
project was centrally funded since 1984. It was then implemented as cable
plant project in 1985 and NS responsible for operations since 1986.
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technologys (MIT) Project Athena
Project Athena is a campus-wide computing project at MIT from 1983 to 1991
developed by engineers at MIT, DEC, and IBM. The initial goals of this project
were to develop computer-based learning tools that can be used in multiple
educational atmospheres, establish a knowledge base for future decisions
about educational computing, create a computational atmosphere that
supports multiple hardware types, and encourage ideas, code, data, and
experience across MIT sharing.

References
1. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Campus/HA_camp
us_DG/hacampusdg.html#wp1107563
2. http://www.brocade.com/solutions-technology/industry/campus/index.page
3. http://www.techopedia.com/definition/25931/campus-area-network-can
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_network
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena