Internet and IT Infrastructure

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Dear Aston University,

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 may I kindly request the following information about the University’s internet and IT infrastructure:

1. How much did the university spend on broadband in the 2019/20 financial year?
2. Who is your internet network provider?
3. What is the average network speed on each of your campuses? Please list the name of each campus and the internet speed for each. Here is a tool for testing speed if needed: https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/speedt...
4. What percentage of each university campus is covered by wifi? Please list the name of each campus and the percentage of wifi coverage.
5. Between January 2015 and December 2020, how many times have you switched network providers?
6. How many broadband routers do you have across all campus buildings?
7. Do you have fibre-optic broadband in any campus buildings?
8. Do any of the university-owned halls of residence require an ethernet cable as opposed to wifi? If yes, please list the names of the halls of residence.
9. Do any of the university-owned halls of residence have the option to connect to both an ethernet cable and wifi? If yes, please list the names of the halls of residence.
10. Do you have a data destruction policy?
11. Between January 2015 and December 2020, how many student complaints has the university received relating to the “internet”, “WiFi” and “broadband”? Please list the number of complaints per calendar year.

Please could I receive all information in electronic format and in machine-readable formats where applicable.

Yours faithfully,

Ellen Blacow

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Dear Ms Blacow       

Our ref: FOI/2021/104

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Yours sincerely,

Alice Mineyko

 

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From: Ellen Blacow <[FOI #710595 email]>
Sent: 02 December 2020 16:13
To: FOI Requests <[Aston University request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Internet and IT Infrastructure

 

Dear Aston University,

 

 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 may I kindly request the
following information about the University’s internet and IT
infrastructure:

 

 

1. How much did the university spend on broadband in the 2019/20 financial
year?

2. Who is your internet network provider?

3. What is the average network speed on each of your campuses? Please list
the name of each campus and the internet speed for each. Here is a tool
for testing speed if needed: https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/speedt...

4. What percentage of each university campus is covered by wifi? Please
list the name of each campus and the percentage of wifi coverage.

5. Between January 2015 and December 2020, how many times have you
switched network providers?

6. How many broadband routers do you have across all campus buildings?

7. Do you have fibre-optic broadband in any campus buildings?

8. Do any of the university-owned halls of residence require an ethernet
cable as opposed to wifi?  If yes, please list the names of the halls of
residence.

9. Do any of the university-owned halls of residence have the option to
connect to both an ethernet cable and wifi? If yes, please list the names
of the halls of residence.

10. Do you have a data destruction policy?

11. Between January 2015 and December 2020, how many student complaints
has the university received relating to the “internet”, “WiFi” and
“broadband”? Please list the number of complaints per calendar year.

 

 

Please could I receive all information in electronic format and in
machine-readable formats where applicable.

 

 

Yours faithfully,

 

 

Ellen Blacow

 

 

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Dear Ms Blacow

 

Please see attached response.

 

Kind regards.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Alice Mineyko

 

Alice Mineyko
Counsel
[1]http://static.aston.ac.uk/emails/sigs/au...
Office of the General Counsel
Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
aston.ac.uk

 

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From: Ellen Blacow <[FOI #710595 email]>
Sent: 02 December 2020 16:13
To: FOI Requests <[Aston University request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Internet and IT Infrastructure

 

Dear Aston University,

 

 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 may I kindly request the
following information about the University’s internet and IT
infrastructure:

 

 

1. How much did the university spend on broadband in the 2019/20 financial
year?

2. Who is your internet network provider?

3. What is the average network speed on each of your campuses? Please list
the name of each campus and the internet speed for each. Here is a tool
for testing speed if needed:
[2]https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/speedt...

4. What percentage of each university campus is covered by wifi? Please
list the name of each campus and the percentage of wifi coverage.

5. Between January 2015 and December 2020, how many times have you
switched network providers?

6. How many broadband routers do you have across all campus buildings?

7. Do you have fibre-optic broadband in any campus buildings?

8. Do any of the university-owned halls of residence require an ethernet
cable as opposed to wifi?  If yes, please list the names of the halls of
residence.

9. Do any of the university-owned halls of residence have the option to
connect to both an ethernet cable and wifi? If yes, please list the names
of the halls of residence.

10. Do you have a data destruction policy?

11. Between January 2015 and December 2020, how many student complaints
has the university received relating to the “internet”, “WiFi” and
“broadband”? Please list the number of complaints per calendar year.

 

 

Please could I receive all information in electronic format and in
machine-readable formats where applicable.

 

 

Yours faithfully,

 

 

Ellen Blacow

 

 

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