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University encourages colleges to create BPO facilities

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Campus-wide networking with Internet at Bishop Heber College

CATCHING UP WITH TIMES: The Vice-Chancellor of Bharathidasan University, C. Thangamuthu, inaugurating `campus-wide networking' facility at Bishop Heber College on Thursday. To his left are the principal, Marcus Diepen Boominathan, and the College Dir ector, D. Swamiraj. — PHOTO: R. M. RAJARATHINAM.

TIRUCHI: : Bharathidasan University has encouraged colleges to establish Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) facilities either individually or collectively to provide hands-on experience to students, and put them on a sound footing to secure jobs in top-notch software companies by the time they complete the courses.

Such a step was vital in the wake of well-qualified students losing out in the emerging job market in ITES Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) arena, owing to lack of experience, the Vice-Chancellor, C. Thangamuthu, said inaugurating `Campus-wide networking with Internet facilities' at Bishop Heber College, installed at a cost of Rs. 68 lakhs, here on Thursday. Colleges could utilise their material and human resources and do well in the BPO sector. Besides developing educational software and marketing them, the institutions must organise job fairs aggressively by roping in their alumni placed in the plethora of software companies.

He wanted colleges to take advantage of the BSNL network to obtain high-speed Internet connectivity - 2MBps - without having to invest heavily. Cautioning that Internet could be distractive too to students, he urged the authorities to install firewall to realise the objective of targeted use. A protective measure was essential also to secure all information collected, preserved and stored by the colleges. A culture of sharing information should precede e-culture. Campus wide networking, which provides for an interface between different departments and video-conferencing, should be well utilised, he insisted.

The principal, M. Marcus Diepen Boominathan, said networking within institution, with Internet and Intranet, had gained significance in the context of swift communication worldwide.

The college director, D. Swamiraj, assured that the newly established 256 KBps connectivity would be enhanced to 1 MBps, depending on the magnitude of utilisation.

Explaining the advantages inherent in the network, V. Natarajan, Head, Department of Computer Science (Evening college), said connectivity amongst all departments, library, office, hostels, students' service centre, and Controller of Examinations, helped in sharing of resources, especially expensive software such as Oracle, and statistical packages.

With Intranet, all facilities offered by the Computer Science Department can be accessed. Several books and journals available in CD forms could be stored in a server and accessed.

The network uses high-speed Gigabyte switches and single mode fibre optic cables, which can transmit high bandwidth data. Five high-end servers with Dual processors have been installed.

These servers will provide Windows-based software, Linux-based software, Oracle, Web-enabled services and virtual library. A total number of 42 new computers have been installed in the different departments of the college to avail this facility.

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