NGN Communications Access Billing
Last updated
August 24, 2009 11:11:59 AM PDT
Find out how UCSD's Next Generation Network (NGN) billing works.
A flat monthly charge is levied automatically for each campus employee who qualifies as a Communication User, as determined by the employee's payroll title code. (This charge replaces telephone line and computer network charges.)
A UCSD employee is considered a Communication User when other employees in the same title code generally use a telephone and/ or the UCSD data communications network as part of their daily work. A campuswide committee evaluated every job title and determined whether the majority of its constituents did or did not qualify. Employing the "Communication User" category as a basis for charging is not meant to be a precise reflection of individual use, but rather a fair mechanism for aggregating and averaging communications charges over departments.
In phase two of NGN (NGN2), monthly charges for full-time Communication Users and postdoctoral fellows will change July 1, 2006, and then increase annually for the next 5 years. See rates in the chart below:
Communication
User
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NGN2 monthly rates |
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2005-2006
|
2006-2007
|
2007-2008
|
2008-2009
|
2009-2010
|
2010-2011
|
| On campus |
$60 |
$70 |
$74 |
$79 |
$85 |
$89 |
| On-campus postdoc |
$20 |
$28 |
$33.30 |
$39.50 |
$46.75 |
$53.40 |
| Off campus |
$23 |
$29 |
$31 |
$33 |
$36 |
$37 |
| Off-campus postdoc |
$7.67 |
$11.60 |
$13.95 |
$16.50 |
$19.80 |
$22.20 |
| Med Center |
$12 |
$22 |
$23 |
$25 |
$27 |
$28 |
| Med Center postdoc |
$4 |
$8.80 |
$10.35 |
$12.50 |
$14.85 |
$16.80 |
| Grad student |
$12 |
$21 |
$22 |
$24 |
$26 |
$27 |
| Public computer labs |
$16.50 |
$18 |
$19 |
$20 |
$22 |
$23 |
Note: To check on the charging category for your location, see a summary list (Excel).
Charges to grants:
- Faculty grants: Charges are assessed on the funds from which faculty salaries are paid, including grants, start-up funds, and other sources. The percentage of NGN charge assessed to any fund source, including a grant, will be the percentage of salary on that fund source.
- Other academics and staff are charged as Communication Users at the percentage of their salary on the grant, up to 100%.
- Postdoctoral researchers and fellows are charged at one-third the Communication User rate, multiplied by the percentage of time on the grant. Under NGN2, one-third will increase to 40% in 2006-2007, then by 5% per year until 2011, when it reaches 60%.
- Grants are not charged for graduate students or undergraduate students.
Monthly fees include:
- Voice services: Basic voice service (digital or analog telephone line), customer service, feature packages for phones, line repairs, and technical support
- Data services: Switched Ethernet data service, on- and off-campus network access, electronic mail services, DHCP service, line repairs, and technical support
- Wiring: Fiber optic cables between buildings and category 5 (or better) cables inside buildings
- Equipment: Upgrades for backbone and building network switches
- Wireless: Wireless data network access in selected public areas and classrooms, and in new building upgraded projects
- Local and long-distance toll calls (after July 1, 2006)
Monthly fees do not include:
- Installations, moves, or changes for data and voice lines
- Telephone and computer instruments
- Local and long distance toll calls (until June 30, 2006)
- Voice mail
- Experimental networks and exceptionally high bandwidth needs
- Special-use rooms and computer labs
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For more information, contact ngn@ucsd.edu or one of the following:
