Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore

Plan 2020

Submitted by

IT Centre

May 2009
 Plan 2020

Department Name: I.T. Centre

Mission Statement:

Provide value through leadership in the development and delivery of

innovative computing and information technology solutions to facilitate
the Teaching, Learning, Research, and Governance goals of the
University.

(1) Department Overview:

IT Centre is an information and communication technology (ICT) service

provider for the optimal application of available resources and to create and deliver high-
quality ICT services in concert with the mission of the university. These services are
delivered through an ICT infrastructure that is comprehensive, up-to-date, responsive,
reliable, available and intuitive.

IT Centre was established in the year 2000 to create a Campus Wide Network by
interconnecting various campuses and departments. First phase which was completed in
April 2001, networked 18 departments having 524 nodes. Second phase was completed in
Oct 2002, which connected ten more departments and installed 331 additional nodes.
During third phase we have connected IET and Nalanda Campus to our central server
located at IT Centre, Khandwa Road Campus. At present there are approximately 1300
nodes connected to IT centre servers. IET has been connected by laying 2.1 kilometer
fiber optic cable where as Nalanda Campus which is six kilometer away from Khandwa
Road Campus has been connected using 2 Mbps leased circuit. During third phase
expansion additional 150 nodes have been added to Nalanda Campus, RNT Marg
Network and 128 nodes to IET network. After completion of third phase i.e. from Feb,
2004 all the departments of the University are now on Campus LAN having access to the

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Internet. Under UGC-INFONET scheme, from Jan 2004, UGC has provided our
University free subscription to the various e-Journals along with 2 Mbps bandwidth
through ERNET. Internet access is provided to all departments using fiber optic
backbone & 4 Mbps BSNL Internet leased line. The centre is equipped with an array of
high-end servers using 10 hours battery backup. Internet access is available to
departments round the clock (24 x 7). IT Centre lab also provides Internet access to
students from 8:30 AM to 8:30 PM.

(2) Students Growth Plan

Expected Registered Users at IT Centre:

2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-17 2017-2020

Year

No. of 6500 7200 8000 8800 9700 10600 12500

Students

% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 20%

Growth

(3) Technical Staff

Expected requirement of additional technical & administrative staff at IT Centre

Year 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013- 2014-17 2017-2020

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Technical 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 25%
%Growth

Administ 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 15%
rative
%Growth

(4) Infrastructure Growth Plan

(a) Building
i) New Building Requirement (in Sq. Mtr.)
By Year 2012 2015 2018 2020

Proposed Constructed Area 10000 Sq. Ft

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Estimated Cost Rs. 50 Lakh

ii) Extension to existing space (in Sq. Mtr.)

By Year 2010 2015 2018 2020

Proposed 10000 Sq Ft
Constructed
Area

Estimated Rs. 50 Lakh

Cost

(b) Facility Creation/ Upgradation

Proposed new laboratory set up, Renovation of existing labs, creation of resource
centre, networking and computational facilities.

Name of facility Estimated cost Year of Remarks (if any)

establishment
Replacement / 2 Crore 2010
Upgradaton of
existing
infrastructure

• Advanced and High Speed Campus Network: Development of high bandwidth

communication network to support three dimensional interactive multimedia
applications. The developed network will provide easy access to world’s
knowledge from anywhere, any time. Adoption of 100-Gigabit backbone network,
increasing bandwidth between Nalanda and Takshashila campus to supporting
high-bandwidth applications such as large database and GRID technologies.

• Web content creation in local languages: Development of web content in local

languages to play active role in distance learning programs for rural population at
graduate and post graduate level.

• Data Resource Centre for e-Governance: Acting as a data resource Centre for
e-Governance services and collaborate with Government agencies.

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• Test Bed for Experimental Research: Creation of test bed facilities for
experimental research in areas like wireless sensor networks, multimedia
networks and pervasive computing.

• Adoption of Open Standards for Building the Network Infrastructure: We

would adopt the open standards in building our network infrastructure to make it
more adaptive to change of technologies and to maintain scalability and
interoperability of products from different vendors and at different periods of time
to protect our investment and skill in our network infrastructure. Evolving
mechanisms to promote usage of open source technology.

• Responsive Servers and Sufficient Storage Capacity: Adopt the latest cluster
technology and the SAN technology in building high performance servers and
high availability storage systems respectively. To cater for peak workload of
different functions, grid computing and dynamic relocation of processor
technologies would be adopted as the standards in setting up our computing server
systems. Storage virtualization in the form of storage grids would also be
implemented for better utilization and management of the storage of different
SAN systems. Powerful servers running in high-availability mode or grid set up
would be maintained.
• Disaster-Recovery Network: Setting up a disaster-recovery network in the
remote campus and conducting concurrent video-conferencing sessions in the
main and remote campuses of the University.

• Sufficient and Reliable Storage: With increasing use of our numerous IT

services and our direction to move towards a paperless university, we must ensure
that there is sufficient storage capacity so that all information could be properly
stored in digital form. The security and integrity of the data stored are critical to
the vision of a paperless environment.

• Creation of state of art technology resource Centre for disabled persons

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(6) Growth in Income by Self finance Schemes

By Year 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020

Estimated 65 70 75 80 90 1
Funds to be Lakh Lakh Lakh Lakh Lakh Crore
generated (in
Crores)

(7) Research Plans

Particulars Details Remarks

Identify Thrust 1. Network Management
Areas of research 2. Information Security
3. Wireless Adhoc Network
Collaborations 1. ERNET
2. Inflibnet
3. UGC-INFONET

(8) Consultancy
Industrial Projects, Industry-Institute relationship, linkage with
Govt. bodies and NGO

Consulting Details Expected Revenue

Areas 2012 2016 2020
Industry- Providing Network 10 Lakhs 20 Lakh 40 Lakh
Institute Management and
Relationship & Security solutions
Consultancy
Linkage with Planning and 5 Lakh 10 Lakh 15 Lakh
Govt. Bodies Designing of Data
and NGO Centre and Campus
Networks for State
and Central
Government Bodies

(9) Governance :

IT Centre has taken initiative to develop University Management Software. Software

Requirement Study has been completed, design and coding phase is over. At present

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module tests are being carried out, which will be soon followed by user acceptance
testing.

(10) Extension and field Outreach Plan:

• Extending University IT services and resources to the remote affiliated colleges
and other institutions like Gram Panchayats, by providing them remote
connectivity.

• Developing video-conferencing facilities to deliver higher education to the

residents of rural areas at affordable cost.

(11) Other details

In addition to infrastructure development described above, the following activities

are also planned.

• High Speed Connections to Internet2: So that our researchers will have

sufficient communication bandwidth to cope with the increasing collaboration
with organizations and institutions in the world-wide networks.
• Wireless Connectivity: Enhance the wireless network access in the campus for
all offices, buildings, hostels and open-access areas.
• Strengthen Network Security: With the drastic increase in spam email, virus
attack, security intrusion and peer-to-peer sharing of copyrighted materials, etc., a
substantial amount of overhead and valuable resources have been expended to
handle these unproductive activities. The IT Centre will continue to work closely
with the security alert agencies and to guard the security of our campus network
and servers with the state-of-the-art firewall systems, anti-virus software,
intrusion detection and prevention engines and network traffic management
engines so as to minimize the impact from disrupting the performance and
affecting the operation of the campus network.
• IP Telephony to Integrate Data, Voice and Video Deliveries: This saves cost
on cabling and relocation of phone lines from one location to another. Our
campus network infrastructure has the necessary coverage, bandwidth, resiliency
and security to support IP telephony.

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• Planning for Disaster Recovery: To ensure continuous operation of our network
and servers without interruptions, other than planning for adequate power supply
and air-conditioning capacity in our computer room, we must also plan for
additional space to cater for expansion, as well as serving for disaster recovery in
a remote location.
• Enhanced Communication Using Hand-held Devices: Integration of university
services on handheld devices to enhance communications among university
members.
• Innovative Deployment of Applications: To supports paperless applications and
digital signatures using mobile devices and smart cards using wireless
technologies.
• Smart ID Card: All users will have single smart card based ID, for all the
university services and authentications. This will promote e-governance and
forming a digital university.
• Wireless Applications: As these portable hand-held devices are becoming more
powerful, we shall explore and provide the necessary infrastructure to support
new mobile applications to allow University members to use their hand-held
devices with built-in browsers to access information anytime and anywhere in the
university.
• The Central PC Laboratories: Latest computers with laser printing services to
facilitate the use of IT for supporting teaching and learning.
• IT for Library Information and Services: Digital libraries could play an
important role in developing the infrastructure of the knowledge hub and should
be our strategic partner to turn this vision of the University into reality.
• IT for Research and Innovation: High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities
to support research activities and collaborative projects that require intensive
computing and large database capabilities. It will serve to attract and retain
researchers in those areas having such requirements.
• Access Grid: Use of Access Grid technology, to organize meetings that could be
held simultaneously in multiple locations in our main campuses.
• The Next Generation Network and IPv6: The IPv6 Protocol is designed to
address the inherent shortcoming of the 25-years-old IPv4 Protocol such as the

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 address space of an IP address, efficient header processing, plug-and-play device,
data security and improved QoS (Quality of Service).
• Business Process Reengineering and University Resource Planning: All the
administrative applications will be tightly-integrated with efficient access to our
centralized database for timely and accurate information. All data will be captured
at source wherever possible so that the accuracy and timeliness of data will be
ensured, with the ultimate goal of creating a paperless working environment in the
University.
• Management of Quality IT Services: Advanced and reliable IT services are
essential in supporting the University’s teaching, learning, research and
administration activities. Quality service will mean fast response to service
requests, ability to sustain continuous service of 365 x 24 hours from anywhere,
anytime throughout the year. In order to achieve the goal of good-quality service,
ISO standards would be adopted to continuously refine and improve the quality of
our service provision.
• Promotion of IT Innovations and New Services: The IT CENTRE will continue
to develop innovative applications and to promote our IT innovations and
expertise to the University users.

Signature of Head

Date: 12/05/2009