Computer Support Group

The Octagon - Main CC building 

The sterling hallmark of this campus is the OCTAGON - Computer Center. This center serves the campus-wide LAN in close association with the user departments. This LAN caters to totally 4000 users across the campus (1500 users at the same time) and has a 10 Gbps fiber optic backbone. It also acts as a resource centre to supplement classroom instructions with laboratory sessions.

The OCTAGON & Annex building accommodates the central computing facilities, it has a server room with 25 high-end servers and there are 6 laboratories, 4 in Octagon building and 2 in the Annex building with totally 400 high-end computers. Its laboratories includes Lab 1 with 39 Pentium based PCs, Lab 2 with 52 Pentium 4 based PCs, Lab 3 also known as RECAL-Sun Lab with 33 Sun Computers, Graphics Lab with 30 Pentium 4 based PCs, R & D Lab with 10 Pentium 4 based PCs. Annex building located next to Octagon has two big labs each with 99 computers.

Lab1

It has a Printer room equipped with four high-speed A4 and A3 Network Laser Printers (Mono and Color) which can print upto 50 pages per minute (PPM); a Library for software and manuals; Conference and Seminar facilities; a CAD/CAM Centre with 22 high-end workstations and an in-house maintenance facilities.

The centre is maintained by the Computer Support Group (CSG). The CSG also offers courses under its Continuing Education Programme for the students as well as the local community.

Octagon is kept open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, throughout the year, also has centralized 2 x 60 kVA redundant Uninterrupted Power Supply with 200 kVA standby Power Generators and Central Air Conditioning.

NITT is connected to the Internet via 40 Mbps (1:1) leased line from Software Technology Park of India (STPi)

Annex Building CC 

• Hardware
• Software
• Campus Wide Networking
• Continuing Education Programmes
• CAD/CAM
• Computer Centre Committee
• Institute Purchase Committee
• CSG Staff
• Contact Address

CSG Library