Following a gargantuan effort, ITS has retired the Andrew File System. The Andrew File System (AFS) is a distributed file system that UNC-Chapel Hill used for 22 years until ITS decommissioned the service on November 13, 2018. While AFS was … Read more

When Assistant Vice Chancellor Jim Gogan retires on January 31, 2019, after 42 years of serving UNC-Chapel Hill, he leaves a lasting legacy — a reliable, robust campus network, the goodwill he forged between Information Technology Services and groups within … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill will retire the Andrew File System (AFS) on November 13, 2018. The statement is simple. More interesting and intricate, however, are the prudent steps the campus is taking to assist users through the decommissioning process and the history … Read more

Down the hill and through the woods, Carolina’s Outdoor Education Center on Country Club Road needed more reliable and less expensive phone and internet service. The center’s carrier wasn’t promising service improvements any time soon, and leasing an energy company’s … Read more

During its busy 2016-2017 fiscal year, ITS Communication Technologies worked on many high-profile, high-impact projects. The division finished a 3.5-year project to provide pervasive wireless on the main campus, upgraded network coverage in 45 buildings and boosted Wi-Fi in the … Read more

Migrating the University to Microsoft Office 365 consumed significant ITS Infrastructure & Operations resources during the 2016-2017 fiscal year. While that was a massive undertaking, Infrastructure & Operations also accomplished many other projects and initiatives that improved service, performance and access … Read more

During the 2016-2017 fiscal year, ITS Communication Technologies was able to completely upgrade network coverage in 45 buildings without sacrificing day-to-day network operations and support, bringing the campus network coverage up to more than 300 buildings. This was possible because … Read more

ITS Communication Technologies has wrapped up a 3.5-year project to provide pervasive wireless coverage within all remaining campus buildings. When ITS launched the project in 2014, less than 35 percent of campus within-building space had appropriate Wi-Fi coverage. In this … Read more

ITS Communication Technologies ported out 9,000 numbers in early 2017 to Verizon Business, and is gearing up to close out the year with an additional 6,000 numbers in December. This brings the total for numbers ported out this year alone … Read more

As Carolina students opt to use their smartphones for an increasing amount of their online needs, the Wi-Fi access points in the hallways of the University’s residence halls haven’t been able to keep up. The wireless system that ITS finished … Read more

ITS is pursuing a new tool to replace the in-house applications that run the University’s Domain Name System and IP address management. Service is critical to campus Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical service that has a huge impact … Read more

ITS Communication Technologies has begun upgrading the University’s networking core to provide better redundancy, more flexibility and much higher bandwidth. ITS selected Cisco System as the vendor for the upgraded core routers in May, and started the upgrade in July. … Read more