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Items of Interest:

CONVERTING YOUR PSU TELEPHONE TO VoIP
TNS is in the midst of a multi-year conversion from Centrex telephone service to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
posted on 12-16-04
DISCONTINUATION OF WIRELESS MATCHING AND BACKBONE WAIVER PROGRAM - JUNE 30, 2008
Since fiscal year 2002/2003, Information Technology Services (ITS) has overseen a program to match funds on a 50/50 basis with units wishing to expand wireless coverage area of their local area networks. In cases requiring a new connection to the Integrated Backbone, the associated $1,000 connection fee was also waived.
posted on 03-10-08
TSR DEADLINES SET FOR FISCAL YEAR END AND SUMMER
Departments that wish to have their telecommunications and networking projects completed and billed by the end of the fiscal year, should submit project requests with sufficient time to finalize the service design, and send a Telecommunications Service Request (TSR) via fax to 814-867-0190 by March 14, 2008.
posted on 02-27-08
INTER-CAMPUS INTERGRATED BACKBONE EXTENSION TRANSPORT FEE TO BE ELIMINATED ON JANUARY 1, 2008
Telecommunications & Networking Services (TNS), a unit of Information Technology Services (ITS), is pleased to announce the elimination of the inter-campus transport fee associated with networking services delivered through an Integrated Backbone (IB) Extension.
posted on 12-03-07
ITS RADIO PAGING SERVICE TO BE DISCONTINUED JUNE 30, 2008
Effective June 30th, 2008, the one-way Radio Paging Service offered by ITS at the University Park campus, initially created a decade ago to afford economical availability of localized paging services, will be discontinued.
posted on 11-05-07
ITS FIREWALL SERVICES PRICING CHANGES
As a result of competitive contracting activity for ITS firewalls and vendor support, ITS would like to announce the following pricing changes - effective July 1, 2007.
posted on 7-23-07
ITS TO RESTRICT RECURSIVE LOOKUPS ON CENTRAL DNS SERVERS - JULY 9, 2007 off-campus machines using non-Penn State networks must take action
In an effort to enhance DNS security and improve resource usage on the Penn State Network, ITS will restrict a feature called “Recursive DNS lookups” in the University’s domain name service (DNS) on July 9, 2007.
posted on 6-14-07