The Campus Network
Aberystwyth University has always put a high priority on the availability of good computer networking to all its staff and students. The two Network Teams within Information Services have the responsibility to plan, install, upgrade, and support this network to a standard commensurate with an important teaching and research university.
All University buildings on all the campus sites are connected to the network, often at Gigabit speeds. Within buildings, offices, laboratories, lecture theatres, public workstation rooms, bedrooms in residential halls, and conference areas are now mostly connected. In all, over 6,000 network sockets are available, increasingly at 100Mb/s to the desk position. As far as possible all buildings have wireless coverage.
Access to the outside world and the Internet is provided by JANET (the Joint Academic NETwork) for all U.K. universities. The link from Aberystwyth is provided at 155Mb/s.