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ABOUT COMPUTER CENTER

Established in 1990, the Computer Center in Da-Yeh University primarily focuses on providing a good computing environment, building solid networking infrastructure, developing administrative applications, and promoting informational educations for the university personnel.

After completing the first and second generations of the campus network, the Center upgrades the system into the third generation, in which the backbone bandwidth raised to 1000MB(or 1GB), and all buildings, including the four colleges, the library, the administrative building, and the dormitory areas, are connected to the Computer Center in a “star” topology. To provide better connection quality, in addition to the 1000MB-bandwidth connection to the regional TANet networking center, the Center also provide 8 lines of ADSL connections to a commercial ISP, HiNet.

In order to reduce the administrative workload, the Center started developing applications for all administrative offices when it was first established. Since 1996, the software system has been migrated from the first generation to the second generation that employs a distributive computing model to handle the dramatically increasing volume of data. Up to the year of 2002, there are six major software systems with thirty-three sub-systems for the Accounting, Academic affairs, Student affairs, Human resources, and Computer Center departments. The administrative application system is growing into the third generation, which employs the newest n-tier software architecture, to provide users more efficient software systems.

The Computer Center also has built up a wireless network system over the campus to provide a convenient environment for the students and faculties to connect to the network. Currently, the Center is aiming on renewing the network system in the dormitory areas, upgrading the servers for teaching, and providing a web-based mail system.

In the near future, the Center plans to improve the quality of the signals in the wireless network system so that students and faculties everywhere in the school can easily enjoy all the services provided by the Computer Center. The Center is designing a portal for all the services and we expect it to be completed in very near future. Designing a multimedia network for teaching and training is also a major plan for the Computer Center.

History

• 1990 The first generation of administrative application system was deployed in the Digital Vax 6410.
• July, 1992 The school was connected to the educational network.
• October, 1992 The first generation of the campus network system was completed, with a backbone bandwidth of 10MB.
• 1996 The second generation of administrative application system was deployed in the Digital 2100/4233 system with Sybase as its database management system. The first FTP server was set up in a Compaq DPW500au machine.
• August, 1997 The second generation of the campus network system was completed, with a backbone width of 155MB. The application server, e-mail server and web server were installed in Sun Enterprise250, Sun Ultra 60 and Sun Ultra 10 machines, respectively.
• September, 1997 The class room for distance learning was set up.
• August, 1997 ~ December, 2000 The local educational network center was set up to help high schools and elementary school in Changhua to connect to the educational network. The Center also held 50 seminars of informational educations for the faculties in high and elementary schools in Changhua. The Chugnhwa Telecommunication company set up its switch center in the Center to provide better telecommunication for all the students and teachers in the university.
  December, 2001 The third generation of the campus network system was completed, with a backbone width of 1000MB.
• November, 2002 The campus wireless network system was completed.
  May, 2003 The third generation of administrative application system was developing in the SunFire 4800 system. The second generation of FTP server was installed in the UP-X1000 system.