UNIVERSITY NEWS LAST UPDATED : 24 FEBRUARY 2020
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NETLAB consists of six racks of networking equipment, 2,025 virtual machines, 469 pods and 160 physical devices (routers, switches and firewalls) in Millennium Point. It can run 64 pods concurrently – the maximum the system currently allows – and each pod can have more than one student accessing it at the same time, providing lab access remotely in a safe, sandboxed environment.
It includes equipment relating to the School of Computing and Digital Technology’s status as a Cisco and Juniper academy, and will shortly also have equipment from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, ready for when we become one of their academies in September.
It received a major £300,000 upgrade last summer, to ensure it continues to give students access to the very latest technology, and is one of only a small number currently available in UK universities.
Over 7,000 hours of learning have been delivered to users since September – more than the whole of the 2018/19 academic year.
Pictured: Networking equipment at BCU.