Local Area Networks (LAN)

Windows 2000 domain supporting Macintosh, Solaris, Linux and Windows-based computers at the Lake Mendota Hasler Laboratory and Trout Lake Station, laser and color printers, document scanners

Connection to WANs

Hasler Laboratory LAN linked by a 100baseT connection to the campus-wide WAN; Trout Lake Station connected via a T1 land line

Web Server

Apache web server running on Dell Poweredge server (Linux  operating system)

Databases

Oracle 10g  and MySQL 5 RDBMS's installed on Sunblade 2000 workstation (Solaris operating system); Oracle 10g and ESRI Spatial Data Engine installed on Dell PowerEdge SC440

(Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4)

Data Retrieval

Oracle Browser application installed on networked Windows workstations; ODBC connections on networked workstations with installed Oracle Clients; dynamic query of the database through the NTL website

System Backup

Daily backups of server workstations to DAT tape; daily Oracle database exports; regular backups to tape of data on CFL file servers; regular backup of spatial data to CD-ROM and disk storage

Wireless Communication

Full wireless cloud within both Hasler Laboratory and Trout Lake Station;

900MHz Freewave radios serving instrumented autosampling field equipment / sensors

Video Conferencing Equipment

Video cameras and software,  Microsoft NetMeeting software, computer projector

Remote Sensing

Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) X-band satellite receiving antenna and ingest capability