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The Computing Services Centre is pleased to inform you that the CityU Video-on-Demand (VoD) service is now available for you at home, and you may use the CityLink Plus dial-up facility or any broadband service to connect to it. To watch the rich VoD collection at home, you may first visit the CityU ...
CityU staff based in Festival Walk will soon have a new communication tool on their desks: an IP phone handset. In a pilot scheme scheduled to be implemented in August or September, 300 staff members will try out the new technology before the digital system is installed on the main campus.
By now, you are probably quite familiar with the fresh new look of the CityU Intranet, which was revamped and launched in late December 2001. The new arrangement of the menus aims to provide faster and easier access to network services and information. In this article, we will introduce some of the ...
The current telephone service on campus is provided by a Public Branch Exchange (PBX) system and supported by the Facilities Management Office (FMO). Though the PBX offers reliable telephone services, yet most of the manufacturers see it soon becoming an obsolete technology and thus have ceased ...
Phase 1 network upgrade was successfully completed in January 2002. In this phase a Gigabit network core was set up with full-redundant links between the core layer and distribution layer switches. Apart from that the network switches in most of the wiring closets on the 6/F and 7/F of the Academic ...
The Computing Service Centre (CSC) is pleased to announce that the CityU has become the first university in Hong Kong to sign with Akamai for providing free and fast access to many popular Web sites such as: CNN, Mcafee, Symantec, NBC, Reuters and Lycos. With Akamai hosting some or all of their Web ...
Even though multimedia has been used for teaching in the university for quite some time, well-equipped multimedia-teaching classrooms are still most welcome, and in particular, two new classrooms on the 2/F of Cheng Yick-chi Building should not be missed! Upon entering these new classrooms, you can ...
The Windows 2000 pilot run started in October 2001. Currently about 26 departments have participated in the pilot run. It is estimated that over 400 colleagues have already tested the new Windows 2000 Intranet environment. To join the Windows 2000 Professional pilot run, the departmental Network ...
The number of security breaches in our university's computer network has significantly increased in recent years. In the last few months we experienced severe damages brought about by increasingly and highly advanced malicious attacks. The situation will worsen in the near future if we fail to step ...
The University campus network has become the de facto pedestal upon which all computing services in our University are delivered, and the recent major upgrade has further strengthened its importance as the indispensable facility for our University. The advancement of the campus network urges for ...