Proposed Future State - Campus Network Engineering Meeting Notes 2025 10 06
New Items
Discuss the push back we are getting from DDC about right sizing the BAN-BAS subnet at a new Athletics building (Kalai).
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06OCT25: We discussed the push back from DDC about right sizing the BAN-BAS subnet at a new Athletics building. The end point devices are expected at some point to be swapped out from serial based to IP based connectivity which will require a lot more IPs. Consensus is to have the builder tool require a /24 for BAN-BAS and BAN-DOORS. Refer to [Link for document 5981 is unavailable at this time] Kalai will co-ordinate with Mark Karls.
Standing Items
CCI - campus computing infrastructure (Nick).
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06OCT25: Nick, Chris and Terry not able to attend.
New Network Application Tool Requests (Everyone).
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06OCT25: Tom Christie brought up the ticket created by David for the radial builder needing work.
Discuss static vpn IP assignment cleanup including ACLs (Everyone).
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11AUG25: Dennis did not have a chance to follow up with Jeff Savoy. Dennis will follow up with Jeff Savoy to get a reply. Review in 2 months.
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Ports randomly going offline and don't comeback - causing network instability in 3 locations - UBay800/HCWhite/MSB (Cisco 3650 stack) (Kalai).
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08SEP25: Dennis did not have a chance to work on this. Review in 2 months.
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Getting rid of the 2511RJ and 2511 Cisco terminal servers (Everyone).
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29SEP25: We discussed who has a term server at their desk so it can be added to the list for ordering an Opengear replacement:
- Jeff: 8 port model
- John : 8 port model
- Eric : 8 port model
- Greg : 8 port model
- Jeremy: ask Jeremy
- OpenEng: Just one for communal use. 8 port model
Consensus is to get the 96 port model for the Techlab one in each row. Review in a month.
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Managing and routing 10 space on campus (Everyone).
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06OCT25: JIRA NS-5264 is not being worked on in the current sprint. Review in 2 months.
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Power requirements going up for all TR's due to increased need for PoE (Everyone).
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08SEP25: Still waiting on FP&M. Review in 2 months.
Cleanup FIDO alerts (Everyone).
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06OCT25: We discussed the SMPH alerts, the IPv6 address alerts in the Techlab on 992, the crawler-cssc and Citrix load balancer alerts.
Get consistent location information for network equipment (Everyone).
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18AUG25: The Animal Science area building migrations from the Cisco 7010s to the Cisco 9606s was completed except for the cleanup. Bill let us know that there are some solutions to go beyond the 300 foot limitation for copper cabling. Testing will be done for cameras and APs. Other Big Ten schools have implemented this solution with success. This would be a potential solution for "emergency" situations. Bill will ask for use case scenarios from the manufacturers.
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Discuss Next Gen backbone design.
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06OCT25: RDNS-CSSC1 and RDNS-CSSC2 were successfully migrated on Sunday, 05OCT25.
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