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Campus Network Upgrade Work
Dates, Details & What to Expect

Beginning this month - and throughout the spring semester - we're officially upgrading our campus network infrastructure as part of the CSU Common Network Infrastructure (CNI) program.

decorative image of fast network icon and upload, download, and firewall

This campus-wide upgrade work will increase network speed, security, and bandwidth to exceed industry standards and improve connectivity for every Hornet!

Core network and Data Center upgrade from 10Gb to 100/200Gb
Leveling-up building network connections ranging from 1Gb up to 10-20Gb
Upgraded routers, switches, and security firewalls

Upgrade Schedule + Brief Outages

To reduce impacts to you, we've made every effort to schedule work during before and after-hours timeframes, but some upgrades will unavoidably occur during academic and business hours.

Work Timeframes

March 17-19, 2023 (weekend prior to Spring Break)

3/17-18 (6pm - 2am)
3/18 (9am - 6pm)
3/19 (6am - 3pm)

March 20 - April 28, 2023

Daytime Upgrades (8am - 6pm)
During the week of Spring Break (3/20 - 3/24) work will focus on replacing the equipment in buildings with the largest number of classrooms.
Night-Time Upgrades (10pm - 7am)
From March 27 - April 28, we’ll shift to a night-time schedule to transition remaining network connections.

Curious when a particular building will be upgraded? Check out the Campus Building Upgrade Schedule table:

View Building Network Upgrade Schedule

Generally, the outages (or "offline" time) will be brief - some mere seconds, others 15 minutes or less - when switching over from our current to new equipment. We'll communicate directly with building occupants, broadly with our campus community via SacSend messages, and will post signage on building entrances.

What You May Need to Do

After the network upgrade work is completed, you may need to do the following:

Workstation PCs/laptops will pause (15-20 seconds); you may need to reboot your computer
Telephone connections will drop; you may need to unplug/plug your desk phone back in
Campus workstations using Global Protect VPN connections will need to reconnect
Individual Wi-Fi access points will restart (laptops will switch to other nearby Wi-Fi access points in the building)

If you experience any lingering issues connecting after upgrade work is completed, please reach out to the IRT Service Desk team.

Thank you for your patience during this important network upgrade work!
Your IRT Network Team

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