I sent the following email to campus yesterday, but wanted to share the update here as well:
We continue to work with the Twin Cities network team to upgrade our campus network. Our next phase is to re-route traffic from each of the campus buildings through the new equipment. As discussed in Planning Committee, Academic Support Services Committee, and Campus Assembly, we have scheduled this change for Monday, March 12, the first day of Spring Break week to minimize the impact to teaching & learning.
For each building that is being activated, there may be a brief interval (about 5 minutes) where this work may be noticeable. For example, you may not be able to send emails in Gmail or do other online activities during these 5 minutes. Unfortunately, the Twin Cities network group is not able to make these changes on a weekend, so we have scheduled the work as follows:
Between 10:00-11:00am
- Pine Hall
- Spooner Hall
- Blakely Hall
- Gay Hall
- Indy Hall
- Campus apartments
11:00-noon
- Imholte Hall
- Imholte computer labs
- Student Center computer labs
- Library computer labs
- Science computer labs
- Behmler Hall computer labs
noon-1:00pm
- Briggs Library
- Science
- CSci computer labs
- Education
- RFC and PE center
- Bio-mass facility
- Humanities
- Camden Hall
2:30-3:30pm
- Residential Life offices
- Welcome Center
- Student Center
- Multi-Ethnic Resource Center
- Humanities & Fine Arts
4:30-6:30pm
- Bookstore
- T&T research labs
- Campus Police
- Computing Services
- Food Services
- WCROC
- Behmler Hall
- Transportation garage
- Security doors and cameras
- KUMM radio
- Wireless
We cannot provide detailed estimates of when in each hour your network might be affected. If you experience a network problem during the hour when your building is scheduled, this is likely due to the planned work, and you should not call the help desk. However, if you have problems on the network when your building is not scheduled, please do call us right away. We appreciate your patience and flexibility as you plan your work accordingly.
If you have any questions about this schedule, please feel free to call, email, or visit.
