30th Annual Report 2017-18

155 The new WiFi network adheres to 802.11ac Wave 2, the newest version of the Wi-Fi standard, which is built on first-generation 802.11ac technology, and delivers faster data rates and has the ability to communicate with four different clients simultaneously, instead of one at a time. During this year, 15 Dell Optiplex 5050 desktops (Small Form Factor), 8 Multi-Function Printers and 23 laptops (HP Probook 450 G3, HP 250G6 Notebook, HP Probook 440 G5, Mac-book pro) were acquired for the academic community, visitors and administrative officers. The LAN (LocalArea Network) has been extended to new areas as per requirement. The Computer Centre continues to provide technical support to visitors, project students, IUCAAassociates as well as visitors from the universities and institutions within India and abroad. The Computing Facility employs 6 personnel, who carry out the day-to-day functions that include: 1. Architecting overall IT solution/technologies required for IUCAA and present it to Computer Users' committee for their consensus. 2. Framing policy documents and finalizing them in consultationwith the Computer Users' committeemembers. 3. Drawing up specification for the RFP (Request for Proposal) tender document for IUCAA IT requirement to be purchased and oversee all purchase related procedure and followup. 4. Maintenance of IThardware in the campus including servers, desktops, mobile computing equipment, printers, etc. 5. Maintaining Zimbra email servers, and their day-to-day administration. 6. Configuration andmaintenance of mirror sites hosted at IUCAA. 7. Configuration andmanagement of data backups. 8. Design, management and administration of network topology and firewall rules. 9. Administration of Ruckus wireless network covering the office as well as residential campus. 10. Configuration ofWi-Fi support to devices such as laptops, mobile devices for end users. 11. Day to day administration of VMware infrastructure and various servers catering to administration such asAD, etc. 13. Maintenance of Video Conferencing equipment and end user support. 15. Comprehensive inventorymanagement, asset management and tracking. 16. Procurement of SSLcertificates and software for all the relevant webservers at IUCAA. 17. Management and software development for iOAS (integratedOfficeAutomation System), Tally, andTDS pack. 18. Designingweb portals for various online applications. 19. End user service support to administrative staff, academicmembers, visitors and associates. 20. Infrastructure, management and coding support to IT intensive projects such as BigData,AstroSat, LIGO, etc. 20. Procurement, installation and periodic upgradation of mathematical software such asMatlab, IDL, Mathematica meant for general IUCAAusers and cluster users. 21. Hardwaremaintenance and general systemadministration of clusters in IUCAAin coordinationwithOEM. 22. Assisting estate department with datacentremanagement.