University of Waterloo Profile
Founded in 1957, the University of Waterloo is one of Canada’s leading comprehensive universities, with undergraduate and graduate programs in faculties of Applied Health Sciences, Arts, Engineering, Environment, Mathematics, and Science; and includes professional schools of Pharmacy, Optometry, Accounting and Architecture. The UW community also includes four federated university colleges: St. Jerome’s, Renison, St. Paul’s and Conrad Grebel; and associated research institutes, such as the Water Institute, Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN), the Quantum Nano Centre (QNC), and the Schlegel Institute for Aging.
In just half a century, the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada's technology hub, has become one of Canada's leading comprehensive universities with 35,000 full- and part-time students in undergraduate and graduate programs. Waterloo, as home to the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program, embraces its connections to the world and encourages enterprising partnerships in learning, research and discovery. In the next decade, the university is committed to building a better future for Canada and the world by championing innovation and collaboration to create solutions relevant to the needs of today and tomorrow. For more information about Waterloo, visit uwaterloo.ca.
A major challenge currently facing all educational institutions is increased enrolments at a time when tuition fees and operating grants are highly constrained.
Background
The University of Waterloo (UW) is seeking proposals to refresh the campus LAN switching and routing equipment to bring all buildings to a campus standard.
UW's wired network infrastructure is basic on a highly available hierarchical campus design consisting of a core, distribution, and access layer. Each building router is dually connected to a pair of distribution router using two ECMP layer 3 OSPF network connections over /31 and /127 links for ipv4 and ipv6 respectively.
Within each building, the local router provides default gateway and dhcp forwarding for one or more local building subnets. Access switches within the building are connected directly to the building router or to layer 2 aggregation switches, which connect to the building router.
The University of Waterloo invites qualified companies to submit proposals for the ethernet LAN switching and routing equipment in accordance with the terms of this Request for Proposal.
