Technical Documents: Standards

• Baseline Campus Network Standards (10/01/2001) (pdf)
  The purpose of the Baseline Campus Network Standards is to define the components - both required and optional -of the CSU Baseline Campus Network environment. The standards are intended to provide guidance to network designers and operating support staff as they design and engineer CSU campus networks that support academic and administrative production activities.
  
  
• Infrastructure Quality Standards
  One approach to technology infrastructure upgrading employed by the CSU during the 1990s involved the formation of a public/private partnership with an alliance of major corporate organizations from the technology sector. One product of these efforts was a draft Quality Standards document which was to provide engineering and technical guidelines for the physical plant elements of the system wide build-out. The public/private partnering strategy proved infeasible and was abandoned, but the Quality Standards were retained and have become the reference source for specifications defining campus projects currently being developed as part of the Technology Infrastructure Initiative (TII).
  
  
• Minimum Baseline Infrastructure Standards (10/25/2000)
  During the 1995/96 fiscal year, the CSU system attempted to initiate a multi-year telecommunications infrastructure retrofit program through capital outlay projects based on master planning efforts employing the TIP Guidelines. It was quickly realized that retrofit projects to bring existing campus physical facilities to full TIP compliance would be too costly. A system wide committee of IT professionals was selected to define a set of minimum acceptable voice/video/data provisioning requirements for the retrofits; the quality implicit in the TIP Guidelines would be retained, but connectivity would be reduced to a somewhat lower (but still satisfactory) level. The committee's recommendations were adopted by the CSU system and by Sacramento reviewing agencies.