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}cliff@cs.arizona.edu (Cliff Hathaway) writes:
}>I'd like to hear how other institutions are handling access to shared
}>telecommunications facilities - telephone closets, mechanical rooms, etc.

john.ladwig@soils.umn.edu writes:

}We are currently connected to the university backbone via the u's PBX,
}using a LANmark (LDI) 1 megabit connection, for which we pay a monthly
}access charge of $75. 

Holy smokes!  This brings up another interesting question: what are people
paying for their campus networking?

}We could also buy "Internet-to-your-office" services (EtherJack or
}AppleJack), at $15 per month per connection, but we could buy a new hub in
}each month for the number of connections (about 80 currently) in our
}department.  

Ah, that seems pretty reasonable.
Yes, but you'ld have a lot more bandwidth.

Our telecomm charges $14/month for an ethernet to your office or lab (that's
cheaper than the phone in the office and for a lab of 5-15 machines (daisy
chained) the cost is insignificant compared to the other costs of running the
lab).  I find it odd that some departments do complain about $14 for a network
connection, but not about $18 for a phone  -- if my department wants to save
money, they can have my *phone*!

I am surprised that your users aren't screaming for more bandwidth (80 people
sharing 1Mb/s) -- we have no shortage of people wanting more than 10Mb/s to
their office!

John
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