Computing Service Newsletter 236 (April 2008)

Network News

• Netnews
• Telephone Replacement Project

Netnews

As previously announced, the Netnews service closed down on April 7th 2008.

Telephone Replacement Project [headline article]

As announced in previous Newsletters, the University Telephone Network (UTN) is being replaced. The central components of the new system have now been installed, configured and tested, and system acceptance testing has been completed.

The first live users (the University Computing Service) were switched over to the new system in mid-March, and rollout to user Departments and Colleges is now under way.

At the time of writing (11 April), four user Departments are on the new system, with a total of 374 handsets; it is intended that at least 25 Departments will be completed by the end of June. A number of Departments and Colleges already have scheduled dates for rollout, and others are being encouraged to commit to dates from May onwards. So far the transition has been smooth and feedback from the early adopters has been good.

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