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

Over the past year, UNC-Chapel Hill has continued to build upon critical collaborations with agencies across Orange County to jointly improve high-speed, fiber connections as demand and prices for bandwidth skyrocket. Need and urgency intensify Jim Gogan, Assistant Vice Chancellor … Read more

With help from ITS and others, the UNC-Chapel Hill Athletics Department is gearing up to use “big data” to cultivate a broader audience and thereby, significantly expand revenue. The Athletics Department’s efforts also lay the foundation for additional campus groups, … Read more

ITS has begun installing a couple miles of fiber on campus that will enable the Athletics department to provide live video and data for the ACC Digital Network that ESPN and the Atlantic Coast Conference are launching in 2019. “No … Read more

Within UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services’ Communication Technologies group, Transport Operations team members are always on the go. ITS Transport Operations is responsible for the installation and maintenance of transport cable on campus, which means all those types of lines … Read more

Fiber is what enables us to communicate on campus. For many of us, that’s where our understanding of fiber-optic cable ends. Fiber, for the record, is what digital data travels through in the form of pulses of light. Essential, like … Read more