IT2 is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art infrastructure and distinct laboratories which allow faculty and students to execute research and instructional projects in varied technologies with the highest quality.
IT2 Research Laboratories support testing, research and teaching most of the technologies in the Telecommunications and Networking disciplines. A Ditigal Library with the latest volumes of the most prestigious publications connects our students with the ongoing research in the world.
Labs
Wireless and Software Technology Laboratory
The wireless laboratory is used in wireless and mobile networking courses; wireless information system and in other wireless-related research projects such as wireless network management, wireless ad-hoc networks, and bluetooth technologies. This lab is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities that amply support the implementation of any project related to 802.11 and bluetooth. Wireless access points, serving local wireless clients, would also connect to this switch. These wireless access points act like a hub, providing connectivity for wireless computers. They connect (or "bridge") the wireless LAN to a wired LAN, allowing wireless computer access to LAN resources, such as file servers and printers. As a result, the network design for the lab offers a low-latency fast-switching Ethernet fabric and a wireless Ethernet environment by which minority students can develop and test advanced high-performance network applications and simulations.
The laboratories are also designed to take into account the fast computational requirement for any simulation that requires fast processing and large amount of memory. They are designed for the students who want hands-on experience with Sun machines and UNIX servers and also intended for conducting research and/or working on their thesis. It also provides a separately allocated space to individual users. An NT server manages the nodes on windows platform for these labs. The labs include 2 SUN servers (280s) and adequate number of 1Ghz (133Mhz Fsb) PIII Xeon workstations. All of the machines are dual processor compatible clusters and are for projects related to parallel processing. Simulations are run on the high performance sun machines and various experiments related to parallel processing are executed in these labs. Other than the high performance sun machines, the lab has various equipment listed below:
- 3 PIII 1Ghz Laptops with 10/100 Ethernet and 802.11 card
- 3 PIII 850 Ghz Laptops with 10/100 Ethernet and 802.11 card
- 3 thin Clients (Palm VX ODA) wireless compatible
- 2 bluetooth module
- 5 Lucent Orinoco Gold USB Client for fixed wireless terminals
- 4 Xircom credit card bluetooth pan for bluetooth compatible thin client
- 2 Orinoco Access point with injector and splitter
- 2 SUN servers (280s)
- 2 SUN desktop (80s)
- 10 1 Ghz (133MHz FSb) P III Xeon workstations
- All of the machines are dual processor compatible
- 4 1 Ghz P III rack mountable servers
Optical/High Bandwidth Laboratory
The Optical lab was developed with a motive of designing a lab that has workstations with the ability to connect to each other optically. These workstations are connected to the central switch of IT2 via optical fibers. Each of the workstation are equipped with a optical card that helps connect the workstation via fiber to the optical switch. The server room is housed inside the Optical lab which allows for easy connectivity of the optical fibers to the workstations. The IT2 routers are connected to the EIC server room via a distribution of OC3 optical fiber. Although, the main OC3 optical fiber that is supplied from the main campus is given directly to the EIC servers.
Hands-on Experience Laboratory
The test lab is capable of simulating and testing the following scenarios:
- Domain structure
- Forest and tree hierarchy
- Group Policy objects (settings and where they apply)
- Purpose for each domain
- Method for populating user account data
- Domain controllers
- Member servers, including the services that will run on them
- Client computers
- Computer makes and models
- Amount of memory
- Processor type and speed
- Hard disk capacity
- Graphics cards (type, resolution, and color depth)
- Use of lab design for specific tests
- Mixed-mode and native-mode testing
- Dial-up and other remote testing
- Interoperability testing (UNIX and other systems)
- Replication and Active Directory site testing
- WAN link testing
