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9 Library 8 wire
10 Printing House 2 wire
11 Inter University Center 51 Wire and wireless
Total 509
• Wireless connection only in several meeting rooms.

In the matter of internet connection, firstly UT used connection by means of one

telephone line with maximum 56 kbps in speed. At that time, internet applications provided
covered e-mail and page of UT portal consisting of various types of information. Because

data traffics increased rapidly, in 1996 UT added one more telephone line so that digital
communication bandwidth became 112 kbps. In 1997, UT connected to internet via ISP of
PT lndonet. Now UT is connected to two ISPs, i.e., PT lndonet and Lintas Arta with the

speed of 3 x 128 kbps, so link total was 384 kbps. Communication bandwidth actually is

not enough, because there are too many connections to provide, i.e., all internet access in
every building at UT with not less than 500 connection in 12 buildings, and access to UT
internet services by students and the public. The need of communication bandwidth can

be seen in Figure 2.

Throughput
2 .1. ltlps .----------------------------.,

1.7 rtlps

1.3 ltlps

674.() Kbps

437.1() kbps

Time in Use

Figure 2. The use of bandwidth in UT

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