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A deluge of commuters and students living on campus were mostly detour-free when returning to the University of Utah for fall semester. Similarly, the uptick in people using IT infrastructure didn’t hit any traffic snarls as the first week of classes got underway on August 18.

The Utah Education and Telehealth Network recently increased the bandwidth on its fiber optic and internet protocol network backbones from 100GB to 400GB circuits.

After more than three decades of distinguished service to the University of Utah, UIT Network Engineer Rick Titus closed the final chapter of what he called a “meaningful and fulfilling” career at a retirement reception in his honor on April 23.

Before each new semester, UIT teams and their IT counterparts across campus and University of Utah Health practice a proactive form of “fire prevention” that involves planning IT changes, maintaining software licenses, and leveraging cloud-based resources.

UIT has purchased and is testing Viavi Solutions’ Observer platform, a suite of networking performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) software products that visualizes and analyzes network and server traffic.

UIT is leading a phased project to deploy a cybersecurity solution called network access control (NAC) at the University of Utah and University of Utah Health. NAC implementation at the U has been in development since 2019.

Jake Johansen, director for Enterprise Security in the U’s Information Security Office (ISO), says the initiative is not an effort to filter the websites the university community can access. It's about protecting the U from internet-sourced threats.

The “My Devices” online management portal will provide ULink network users with a wireless experience that makes multiple IoT devices easier to discover and manage with a single password.

To alleviate spectrum congestion, and as part of a initiative at the University of Utah to stay at the forefront of wireless technologies, UIT is piloting Wi-Fi 6E — the best Wi-Fi standard currently available — in eight university buildings ahead of a university-wide release.

A major student housing renovation project in the University of Utah’s West Village continues to progress, with UIT leading critical IT infrastructure efforts. The East and West Villages are geared toward upper division undergraduate students with families and graduate students.