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July 1, 2007
Retirement of Communications Services' Modem Pool
For the last two decades, Communications Services has been providing public dial-up modem serice to provide access to campus networks from off-campus locations. In February, 1996, the Campus Network Committee recommended to the campus Senior Officers that the primary source of remote access to the campus networks from off-campus locations should be via local area Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Since that time, Communications Services has continued to operate the public modems as a "safety net" service for those people who did not wish to or could not use an ISP.
Due to the age of the equipment, the very small number of people using the equipment (no more than four concurrent connections any time in the past eighteen months) and the need to reclaim the space used by the equipment for the installation of new network facilities, Communications Services plans to shut down the public modem pool on July 1, 2007.
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