BATH, DRAINS AND WEB 2.0

Rod Angood, Director of Computer Services, University of Bath, UK

This paper describes the challenge of the impact of Web 2.0 demands on data traffic by first-year students at the University of Bath, UK. A sudden increase in data demand from students living in city centre residences threatened to overwhelm the University’s network. The solution was to install dark fibre through the City’s waste water system which proved fast and cost-effective with very little disruption to road traffic.