QMUL (10 Questions)

Question 1

Provide the name and contact details of your local (Departmental) and Institutional network support staff.

• My Departmental network support contact is: Terry Arter T.R.Arter@qmul.ac.uk
• My Institutional network support contact is: David Pick d.m.pick@qmul.ac.uk

Question 2

Provide details of the responsibilities, together with the demarcation of those responsibilities, of your local and Institutional network support staff.

• The departmental contact is responsible for:
• The institutional contact is responsible for:

Question 3

What is a Regional Network Operator (RNO), and why does this matter to you?

• An RNO is: London MAN
• I care because: they provide our connection to the rest of the internet.

Question 4

What is SuperJANET4? And more importantly what is SuperJANET5?

• SuperJANET4 is: UK academic network backbone
• SuperJANET5 is: proposed upgrade

Questions 5, 6, 7 and 9 (part)

5: Draw a simple diagram showing your local (Departmental) network and sufficient of your Institutional network such that you can trace a line from your end-system to the connection from your Institutes network into the RNO infrastructure.

6: On the diagram produced in answer to Question 5, show the capacity of each link in the network and provide a note against each link of its contention ratio.

7: On the diagram produced in answer to Question 5, colour and distinguish the switches and routers and for each device provide a note of its backplane capability.

9.x: On the diagram produced in answer to Question 5 colour in the firewall(s) (or other security devices).

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Question 8

What is the average and peak traffic flow between your local (Departmental) network and the Institutional network?

• Average traffic:
• Peak traffic:

What is the average and peak traffic flow between your Institutional network and the RNO?

• Average traffic:
• Peak traffic:

What is the total capacity of your Institutional connection to the RNO?

• Our total capacity is: 1000 Mbit/s

What are the upgrade plans for your local (Departmental) network; your Institutional network and the network run by the RNO?

• Departmental plans: None
• Institutional plans: None
• RNO plans: None

Question 9

Do you believe in IS Security? Does your Institute believe in IS Security?

• I'm a believer: YES
• We're collective believers: YES/NO

Do you believe in firewalls? Does your Institute believe in firewalls?

• I'm a believer: YES
• We're collective believers: YES/NO

Provide information of how changes are made to the rule set of the firewall.

• Firewall rules are changed by:

Provide a note of the capacity of this device and what happens when that capacity is exceeded.

• The capacity is:
• When it goes over-capacity, the following happens:

Question 10

What is the best performance you can achieve from your end-system to an equivalent system located in some geographically remote (and friendly!) Institute?

• Best performance is:

For your end-system:

Do you understand the kernel, the bus structure; the NIC; and the disk system?

• I understand: YES/NO

Do you understand TCP tuning and what it can do for you?

• I understand: YES/NO

Do you understand your application and what it can do to your performance?

• I understand: NO, what is meant by "my application"?