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In recent years, many Audio Visual (AV) vendors made use of IP technology on their AV products. Such technology allows administration, control, and transmission of AV and signals over computer networks. Such flexibility extended the manageability and extensibility of AV systems and made AV ...
The Primary Data Centre at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) will be relocated to make room for several strategic initiatives and the setting up of additional web laboratories. The Primary Data Centre relocation project is divided into two phases: the first phase is scheduled to complete by the ...
The CityU WLAN upgrade project began in 2017 ( Ref: Network Computing Issue 92 – June 2017 ) and has been ongoing for more than two years. During this period, the outdated Aruba Wi-Fi system was replaced to support the 5th generation of Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5). Up until now the Computing ...
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Phishing refers to the malicious attack method by attackers who imitate legitimate companies in sending emails in order to entice people to share their passwords, credit card or ...
As part of an initiative to build a smart campus, the Carpark Management System at the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Complex (BOC), Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (YEUNG) and Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU) have been upgraded with the video analytics technology. The new Carpark Management System ...
Introduction CityU currently maintains its own datacenters to provide an IT infrastructure supporting diverse services for teaching, research, administrative, and management use. Dated back a few decades ago, we have adopted a three-tier architecture consisting of compute, storage and networking ...
In our previous issue ( Ref: Network Computing Issue 97 – October 2018 ), we introduced the newly designed CityU Mobile v2, covering the enhanced UI design, the technologies used in the core, as well as new capabilities like checking room availability, retrieving library loan records, etc. These new ...
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Authentication is the process of identifying the authenticity of a user. It can be accomplished by means of a combination of login ID (identification) and password (authentication ...
It is very common nowadays for students and staff to access research data, journals and courses online offered by other education institutions or companies over the Internet. The access usually requires users to sign up and create different user accounts. This article will detail how the Computing ...
Background Information System Security has been a key concern over the past many years as more and more business processes rely on Information Technology to operate. Alike many other organizations, the usual first line of defense would be Internet protection with security devices such as a ...