Monash Network Connections

Summary of Service Types

Preferred services

Basic Service	Dedicated 10Mbit/s or 100 Mbits/s or 1000Mbit/s UTP Ethernet
Enhanced Service	Resilient or Dedicated Ethernet services at 100Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s UTP Ethernet.
Blade Center Service	Resilient or Dedicated Ethernet services for blade servers at 1000Mbit/s UTP Ethernet

Unsupported services

FDDI, Token Ring & ATM

Preferred services

Basic service: Dedicated 10Mbit/s or 100Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s UTP Ethernet

A single end user-device has sole use of the 10Mbit/s or 100 Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s port, provided the NIC card on the device is capable of supporting the speeds.

Modes	The port supports collision-free full-duplex & half duplex. However it is recommended that at 10Mbit/s, a Half Duplex mode be selected and at 100Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s a full duplex mode is used.
Capacity	The edge network and uplinks are dimensioned so that each Ethernet service has its own effectively-guaranteed 10Mbit/s or 100Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s of capacity into the core network, providing the environment for bandwidth-intensive and delay-sensitive applications.
Capability	The uplinks are dimensioned to accommodate for bandwidth-intensive and delay-sensitive applications.
Flexibility	VLAN membership will be port-based.

Enhanced Service: Resilient or Dedicated 100Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s UTP Ethernet

A single server can either have a dedicated 100Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s connection to the network, or have a resilient feed from the switch towards the device, thus ensuring a "no single-point-of-failure", Highly Available (HA) environment. This service is typically suited to servers, and is available only in Central Server locations.

Modes	The port supports collision-free full-duplex & half duplex. However it is recommended that at both speeds, a full duplex mode is used.
Capacity	The network is dimensioned so that each Ethernet service has its own effectively-guaranteed 100Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s of capacity into the core network, providing the environment for bandwidth-intensive and delay-sensitive applications.
Capability	The uplinks are dimensioned to accommodate this environment for bandwidth-intensive and delay-sensitive applications.
Flexibility	VLAN membership will be port-based.

Blade Center Service: Resilient 1000Mbit/s UTP Ethernet

Each Blade Server can have a standard resilient 1000Mbit/s connection via the Ethernet switch modules within the Blade Center. The switches themselves will be connected resiliently to the network, thus ensuring a "no single-point-of-failure", Highly Available (HA) environment. This service is only applicable to blade servers, and is only available at the ITS Data Centers and Faculty server rooms if required.

Modes	The port supports collision-free full-duplex
Capacity	The network is dimensioned so that each Ethernet service has its own effectively-guaranteed 1000Mbit/s of capacity into the core network, providing an environment for bandwidth-intensive and delay-sensitive applications.
Capability	The uplinks are dimensioned to accommodate this environment for bandwidth-intensive and delay-sensitive applications.
Flexibility	VLAN membership will be port-based only

Unsupported services

FDDI, Token Ring and ATM

All of these are old and outdated technologies

Network Hierarchy

Tariffs

Please see the Tariffs documentation for more information about costs.