The University of Twente, the network has had in his educational buildings and dormitories ge lwa pgraded to 1Gbps. The UT claims now, along with the Google campus in Stanford, the fastest university internet connection.
The gigabitnetwerk could be constructed because the existing 100 mbps network infrastructure is already ten years old and due for replacement. ICTS, the it department of the university, has, together with the Student Net Twente in the last few weeks working on the installation of new network equipment and test the connection. Because there is an optical fibre ring runs between the various teaching buildings and dormitories, were the required interventions at the main transport infrastructure is limited.
From march 1, a majority of the students on campus take advantage of a 1Gbps connection, all the necessary 100Mbps switches at the student exchanged must be for gigabit-copies. Also, you will have some students in their home, not the full gigabit upload and download speeds, because the koperkabels too long, so reports the UT. In addition, many educational buildings are no direct speedups can be obtained because use is made of wi-fi-accesspoints, etc.
The University of Twente maintains the existing data limit of 50GB of outbound uploadverkeer per week, despite the theoretically increased internet speed. This would be necessary in order to avoid that, via the university network on a large scale, illegal material is exchanged.