The Networking and Telecommunications group installs and maintains voice, data, and
video wiring and electronics. Responsibilities for network infrastructure within the
group include planning and oversight of all voice/data/video wiring projects, including
adding new network jacks in offices or classrooms and managing wiring installation
in new buildings; installing and troubleshooting network electronics including routers
and switches; monitoring network performance; and coordinating with 3rd party providers.
The CCRI network infrastructure currently includes over 4000 data ports including
connections in all classrooms, conference rooms and offices on the Knight, Flanagan,
Newport and Liston campuses. Switches provide 1 Gbps switched access to the network
for the majority of the data connections. The wide area network that interconnects
all of the CCRI campus sites, including the State Data Center, is a fully meshed network
that consists of a 20 Gbps maximum connection from any one campus to any other one
campus. Our internet service provider is OSHEAN. OSHEAN provides CCRI with 1 Gbps to and from Internet 1 and 1.5 Gbps to and from
Internet 2 and other OSHEAN members. CCRI has configured the State Data Center to be our primary connection to OSHEAN and our Warwick Campus as our redundant or fail-over site.
You may call the Help Desk to request the installation of a network jack for a desktop
computer. Requests for wiring a new lab or classroom should be made in writing by
completing the following:
Request for Technology Wiring Projects