The Computing Services Centre (CSC) so far has received over 456 server registrations from 50 departments. The largest groups of servers are from MEEM, IS, and DCO having 111, 63 and 34 servers respectively. Apparently many of these servers in the academic departments are accessed by staff and ...

As a step towards a paperless campus, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has successfully developed an on-line system for the submission of CSC Work Requests. Starting from 15 May 2002, all CSC Work Requests have to be submitted on-line. The new Web-based system is easy to use and accessible from ...

If there is a word to describe the Student Terminal Area (STA) of the Computing Services Centre (CSC), `bustle' is probably the right one: you always find lots of students in the STA, whether using the computers, printing their course work, scanning images, plotting graphs, attending lectures ...

Student Work Programme is designed by the Computing Services Centre (CSC) to offer students opportunities to gain IT experiences through practical work in the CSC. Students have the precious chance not only to learn the state-of-the-art technology but also to contribute their skills to serve the ...

The Computing Services Centre is pleased to inform you that the CityU Video-on-Demand (VoD) service is now available for you at home, and you may use the CityLink Plus dial-up facility or any broadband service to connect to it. To watch the rich VoD collection at home, you may first visit the CityU ...

CityU staff based in Festival Walk will soon have a new communication tool on their desks: an IP phone handset. In a pilot scheme scheduled to be implemented in August or September, 300 staff members will try out the new technology before the digital system is installed on the main campus.

By now, you are probably quite familiar with the fresh new look of the CityU Intranet, which was revamped and launched in late December 2001. The new arrangement of the menus aims to provide faster and easier access to network services and information. In this article, we will introduce some of the ...

The current telephone service on campus is provided by a Public Branch Exchange (PBX) system and supported by the Facilities Management Office (FMO). Though the PBX offers reliable telephone services, yet most of the manufacturers see it soon becoming an obsolete technology and thus have ceased ...

Phase 1 network upgrade was successfully completed in January 2002. In this phase a Gigabit network core was set up with full-redundant links between the core layer and distribution layer switches. Apart from that the network switches in most of the wiring closets on the 6/F and 7/F of the Academic ...

The Computing Service Centre (CSC) is pleased to announce that the CityU has become the first university in Hong Kong to sign with Akamai for providing free and fast access to many popular Web sites such as: CNN, Mcafee, Symantec, NBC, Reuters and Lycos. With Akamai hosting some or all of their Web ...