Network Development

The mission of the Network Development Office is to maintain and enhance LAN, WAN, and wireless environments of the campus networks, telephone/video systems, cable plant and provide support for the campus local area networks.

The network development office is responsible for:

• Campus network, including fiber backbone, and hundreds of network switches throughout campus
• Voice network with over 4,000 phones on all campuses
• Wireless networks
• Residential networks
• Campus Internet connections, routers and remote WAN connections toInternet, Mandeville, Livingston, Hammond, and Baton Rouge campuses.
• Campus Firewalls, traffic shapers, load balancers, and security appliances
• Network security
• Critical network services such as LDAP, DNS, and DHCP