Network Connections
Last Updated: October 4, 2022 1:23:06 PM PDT
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Learn about UCSD's campus networks.
Connecting to campus networks
- Connect to the campus wired network: For UCSD faculty, staff, and graduate students/ visitors with offices
- Connect to the on-campus residential network: For students using the wired network in their on-campus housing
Wireless network
- Connect to the main campus wireless network: For campus faculty, staff, students, and visitors
Connecting from off campus
- Connecting to the UCSD Network From Off Campus: Find out how to access UCSD network services from home or on the road.
UCSD's off-campus connections
- As of June 2014, the Next Generation Network supports the following connections for UCSD production network traffic:
- 20G (w/10G backup link) to CENIC (Corporation for Educational Networking in California) HPR (High Performance Research) -- includes other UC campuses, universities, Internet2 members, etc
- 20G (w/10G backup link) to CENIC DC (Digital California) -- includes other Calif. schools and our commodity Internet services
- UCSD NGN also supports several connections for UCSD experimental research use:
- 10G to CENIC L2 — layer two services for specialized research use
- CHERuB— 100G to CENIC/PacWave — in development, layer two services for specialized research use
- UCSD/SDSC/CalIT2 support several other research connections on campus, including a direct connection to ESNET for specialized uses
- Look at the campus network traffic "Weathermap"
UCSD's backbone network
- Dual 10 Gbps (Gigabit-per-second) backbone
- 1- or 10Gbps connections to buildings
Office and lab connections
- UCSD Network Security: PPM 135-3: Discusses security requirements for machines connected to UCSD's campus network
- Registration, Management, and Use of UC San Diego Domain Names: PPM 135-8 (PDF): Governs how domain names can be used on campus
See also:
Note: this page has a friendly link that's easy to remember: http://blink.ucsd.edu/go/networks