Best Practice Documents (BPDs)
'Campus Best Practices' work within these technical areas: physical infrastructure, campus networking (including IPv6), wireless, security, network monitoring and real-time communications.
Within these areas Best Practice Documents are produced. All BPDs will be published on this page.
Currently the following BPDs are available:
Physical Infrastructure
- Requirements for Generic Cabling Systems, May 2010 (UFS102, Norway)
- Requirements for the design of ICT rooms, May 2010 (UFS103, Norway)
- Power Supply Requirements for ICT Rooms, May 2010 (UFS107, Norway)
- Ventilation and Cooling Requirements for ICT Rooms, May 2010 (UFS108, Norway)
- Fire Protection Requirements for ICT Rooms, May 2010 (UFS104, Norway)
- Guidelines for the Design of HE Buildings, ICT and AV Infrastructure, June 2010 (UFS121, Norway)
Audio-visual (AV)
- Functional description of AV equipment in lecture halls and meeting rooms, May 2010 (UFS116, Norway)
- Technical and functional requirements for AV equipment, May 2010 (UFS119, Norway)
- Operational Support Systems and Audiovisual Transmission, March 2011 (UFS120, Norway)
Campus Networking
- Recommended Resilient Campus Network Design, March 2010 (CBPD114, the Czech Republic)
- Recommendations for a Redundant Campus Network, December 2011 (UFS114, Norway)
- Configuration of HP Procurve Devices in a Campus Environment, March 2010 (CBPD111, the Czech Republic)
- Recommended configuration of switches in campus networks, May 2010 (UFS105, Norway)
- IPv6 Configuration on HP ProCurve Switches, November 2010 (CBPD115, the Czech Republic)
- IPv6 Address Space, August 2011 (CBPD116, the Czech Republic)
- IPv6 Autoconfiguration, August 2011 (CBPD117, the Czech Republic)
- Evaluating the progress towards and implementation of IPv6, September 2011 (CBPD118, the Czech Republic)
- Use of light paths in campus networks, May 2011 (Finland)
- Edge device for a campus network, May 2011 (Finland)
Wireless
- WLAN Information Security, June 2010 (Finland)
- Recommended Security Systems for Wireless Networks. Implementation of IEEE 802.1X, May 2010 (UFS112, Norway)
- Guide to configuring eduroam using a Cisco wireless controller, December 2010 (UFS127, Norway)
- Cookbook for Configuration of HP Wireless Equipment, March 2010 (CBPD125, the Czech Republic)
- WLAN network planning and setup, December 2010 (Finland)
- WLAN Network Infrastructure, May 2011 (Finland)
Network Monitoring
- Network Monitoring Based on IP Data Flows, January 2010 (CBPD131, the Czech Republic)
- Network Monitoring and Management Recommendations, February 2011 (ABPD101, Serbia)
- Practical IPv6 Monitoring on Campus, May 2011 (CBPD132, the Czech Republic)
- Monitoring Tools for Network Services and Systems, May 2011 (Finland)
- Framework conditions and requirements for network monitoring in campus networks, October 2011 (Norway)
- Network security monitoring and behavior analysis, September 2011 (CBPD133, the Czech Republic)
Real-time Communications
- IP Telephony Review from Czech academic environment, September 2010 (CBPD139, the Czech Republic)
- SIP Penetration testing in CESNET, December 2010 (CBPD142, the Czech Republic)
- Set of IP Telephony Best Practices in National Research Networks in EU, March 2011 (CBPD146, the Czech Republic)
- VoIP Anomaly Detection Engine (VoIPADE), August 2011 (UFS134, Norway)
Security
- Information Security Policy, October 2010 (UFS126, Norway)
- Recommended ICT Security Architecture in the Higher Education Sector, March 2011 (UFS122, Norway)
- Securing Service Access with Digital Certificates, April 2011 (ABPD 106, Serbia)
- Traffic filtering - an overview of the technologies and their application in AMRES, July 2011 (ABPD 102, Serbia)