Infrastructure in the

Digital Age
Gerard Au
Associate Vice President, Technology Operations and Customer
Support
Division of Information Technology Services
California State University, San Bernardino
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Background
California State University System
23 Campuses
460,000 Students
47,000 Faculty and Staf
100,000 New Graduates Annually, 3 Million Alumni
CSUSB (California State University, San Bernardino)
19,982 Students
Around 1,140 Full and Adjust Faculty and Lecturers
Around 1,400 Full and Part Time Staf
Five Colleges, College of Extended Learning
Palm Desert Campus
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Enterprise Systems
Virtualization, Private Cloud
Dec 2013

Dec 2015

236 VMs (About 40-45%

Virtualized)

336 VMs (About 60-65%

Virtualized)

Enterprise Systems in the Cloud, SaaS

Dec 2013

Dec 2015

SIS/ERP (PeopleSoft)

SIS/ERP (PeopleSoft)

Student Email (Gmail)

Student Email (Gmail)

Faculty and Staf Email (Office 365)
Learning Management System
(Blackboard)

Many more to come

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Campus Portal (CampusEAI)

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Network
Infrastructure
Wired network infrastructure
Dec 2013

Dec 2015

13,000 Network Ports

14,000 Network Ports

100% 100Mbps ports

100% 1Gbps-enabled ports

Redundant 1Gbps Connectivity

Redundant 10Gbps Connectivity

Wireless network infrastructure

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Dec 2013

Dec 2015

100% 802.11b/g/n Access Points

80% 802.11ac, 20% 802.11b/g/n

238k Weekly sessions

556k Weekly sessions (133%

increase)

24,500 Weekly users

35,000 Weekly users (42%

Increase)

Network Management tools

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Looking Ahead
Enterprise Systems
Enterprise Applications/Systems in the Cloud (PaaS, IaaS)
Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Network and Telecom Infrastructure

Unifying Communications (UC)
Outdoor Wireless Infrastructure
Software Defined Networking (SDN)

User Experience
Focus on Mobile Technologies
Enhancing Academic, Social and Administrative Experience
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Question/Discussion?
Contact Information
Gerard Au
gau@csusb.edu
@GerardAu
http://linkedin.com/in/gerardau

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