Campus Networks

Whether delivering more than 1 billion emails each year or making sure millions of Zoom minutes go off without a hitch, IU’s campus networks are among the best in higher education.

Lighting the way for a modern university

The Campus Networks team installs and maintains total network connectivity—wired and wireless—for all students, faculty, and staff, overseeing more than 200,000 outlets and over 13,000 access points in hundreds of buildings as well as internet and main network connectivity to IU’s regional campuses.

This is quite a feat, considering a whopping 150,000 devices are connected to our network at any given time.

Our networks have been designed to be easy to use, exceptionally reliable, and secure, and are protected with dependable firewalls and secure wireless. These same networks additionally support the optimization of teaching and learning with state-of-the-art classroom technologies. Campus Networks also manages a core routing environment that continues to see bandwidth growth every year.

Our Campus Networks team also oversees the IU Data Center in Bloomington, which houses IU’s valuable IT assets, including its supercomputers and administrative data. Last but not least, Campus Networks supports IU’s high performance computing endeavors, managing and supporting the network over which all supercomputing and storage data flows.