USF has a computer network that covers practically the entirety of the campus.  Almost all faculty and staff offices and all residence hall bedrooms are served by switched, 100 megabit per second Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet full-duplex connections (meaning that you can send and receive data at the same time at a speed of a hundred million bits per second).  The equipment serving desktop connections consists mostly of Cisco Catalyst and Foundry Networks switches.

Most facilities are wired compliant to a Category 5 or Category 5e cable and wiring practices, with new buildings being built to Category 6 standards.  Similarly, almost all buildings have fiber optic cable into wiring centers and internally to allow for high-speed connections to the redundant, double-starred 10 Gigabit per second campus backbone.

USF is connected to the internet with a 500 megabit per second connection through Cogent as well as through Commercial Peering Service using our Internet 2 connection, and to the Brighthouse Cable Modem network with a 100 megabit per second connection.  Our connection to Internet 2 is a 1 gigabit per second connection.  We also have direct links to the USF satellite campuses and other local institutions.

• Request Ethernet Port Activation
• Request New Ethernet Port Installation
• 2008-2009 Desktop Network Upgrade
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