National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

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Network Infrastructure

NIT-Rourkela has a large campus-wide Network infrastructure, designed to meet the computing and communication (internet) needs of the Institute.

  • All Academic blocks/ departments, Classrooms, Laboratories, Computing labs, Administrative blocks/ offices, Library, Seminar Halls, Sports Complex, Student Activity Centre, Auditorium, Telephone Exchange, Hostels, Health Centre, Estate Office and some parts of the residential area are connected with 40G/10G/1G fiber optic backbone and provided with 24x7 Internet facility.
  • The Institute LAN is consisting of more than 17000 nodes.
  • WiFi network is also available in some department and hostels.
  • Internet connectivity:
    • 24x7 Internet connectivity is available in the campus which includes Academic area, all Hostels, Residential area and other entities of the institute.
    • Institute has a total bandwidth of 5Gbps provided by following ISPs:
      • Vodafone Idea – 2Gbps
      • National Knowledge Network (NKN) through NMEICT project – 1Gbps
      • BSNL – 2Gbps
  • ISP Link Load Balancer: Two number of ARRAY APV 2800 appliances are deployed for balanced routing of internet traffic through each ILL links and proper utilization of bandwidth provided by each ISP.
  • Gateway Security device (Checkpoint - 13500) for:
    • Firewall & Policy Based Routing - to rout inbound and outbound internet traffic.
    • Application Control - to restrict unwanted and malicious applications.
    • URL Filtering - to block/restrict websites that contains undesirable and harmful contents.
    • Identity Awareness - to provide authentication based internet access to the users.
    • Intrusion Detection System (IDS) & Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) – to monitor network traffic for suspicious activity and policy breaching and take action to prevent it.
    • Anti-Bot – to detect bot-infected hosts and prevent damage by blocking bot communication between infected hosts and a remote operator.
    • Anti-Virus –to prevent any network virus to get into the network from outside.
    • Anti-Spam & Email Security – to prevent/filter spam emails reaching their destinations and mitigate threats from phishing, malware and ransomware.
    • Quality of Service (QoS) - to control network traffic and ensure the performance of critical applications with limited network capacity.
  • Gateway Security Management Server is running on VMware. It manages the policies on Gateway Security device i.e. Check Point 13500, manage the logs and generates reports.
  • Prime network devices:
    • L3 Core Switch-1 no.
      Make: Extreme
      Model: Black Diamond X8 (BD X8)
    • 40G Distribution Switch – 3 nos.
      Make: Extreme
      Model: Summit X670-G2-48X-4q
    • 10G Distribution Switch – 25 nos.
      Make: Extreme
      Model: Summit X460-G2-24T-10GE4
    • 1G Distribution Switch – Approximately 70 nos.
      Make: Extreme
      Model: Summit X440-24T and Summit X430-24T
    • 1G Edge Switches – Approximately 580 nos.
      Make: Extreme
      Model: Summit X440-24T and Summit X430-24T
    • Wireless Controllers:
      • Extreme WM 3700 (Hardware) – 2 nos.
      • Cambium cnMaestro (VMware) – 1 no.
      • Extreme WiNG v7.5.1 (VMware) – 1 no.
    • Wireless Access Points - Approximately 80 nos:
      • Extreme AP 4600
      • Cambium E410.
      • Extreme AP 7662i
      • Extreme AP 460i (outdoor)
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