IT NETWORKING SUBSTRUCTURE
BY COMPUTERBANK NETWORKING
AT THE CAMPUS OF THE PIRAEUS
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
31 August 1999: Computerbank Networking SA finalised
and handed over to the prime contractor, BrainWare SA, the IT
interconnection and networking substructure project of the University
of Piraeus campus, estimated at a cost of c. Drs. 130.000.000.
MOD-TAP structured cabling (Cat 5 and optical fibre) was used,
while the LAN (Switched Ethernet), BackBone (Fast Ethernet) and
Campus (Mesh атл) active equipment was that of Cabletron Systems.
SPECTRUM Network Management Software of Cabletron Systems is employed,
on a HP-Openview platform.
Computerbank Networking SA is an IT and Telecom Networking firm,
value added distributor in Greece of cutting edge technology products
and services. The manufacturers it represents include advanced
technology companies as Cabletron Systems, MOD-TAP (now Molex/Premise
Networks) et al. Up to now, Computerbank Networking SA has designed
and installed dozens of mainly large IT and Telecom networking
projects in both the Public and the Private sectors, including
ministries, public utilities, hospitals, banks, large private
companies etc. Last year the Company had a revenue of c. Drs 1
bil., while the Computerbank Networking Group had a turnover of
over Drs. 1.4 bil. The Group revenue for 1999 is expected to exceed
Drs. 2.0 bil.
The complete IT project of the University of Piraeus is budgeted
at c. Drs 670.000.000. After public tender, it was awarded to
BrainWare SA and is expected to be finalised within 16 months,
offering complete automation of the University's functions and
processes.
The project foresees IT automation of the Administrative and Secretarial
services of the institution, supported by 15 NT Servers, connecting
a large number of Personal Computers and peripherals, (printers,
Infokiosques, self-service terminals, smart card readers etc.).
It also foresees the development and implementation of a complete
range of applications for the administration of matters related
to the studies and to the services of the University. It will
run on a client-server environment using Oracle RDBMS. An IT Centre
will also be established, for which a Hewlett Packard Supercomputer
V2200 and a large number of HP UNIX Workstations (C200-C240) were
purchased.
