Thursday, 29th of January 2015, a meeting was held between each representative of clubs and societies in UTP with the UTP ITMS Department, one of the staff members representing disclosed to us was what is being something called ICT Blueprint or something similar. The details of this particular has yet been decided on whether to disclose the information to students or not.
Despite that, some informations were shared to us mainly regarding certain exciting and optimistic issues that include:
- By June 2015, UTP's internet speed will be increased from 200 MB/s to 2 GB/s.
- New switching system from Cisco will be installed. This will also improve tracking.
- By March 2015, Block 1 and Block 2 will offer printing services at cheapest prices compared to other service providers.
- By December 2015, UTP Prism will be replaced by a new system.
- Discussion with TM and Celcom has been carried out to provide internet services without going through UTP hence students will bear the cost with the internet service providers at student's pricing and the current ethernet port will be used.
Although all this informations are being planned, we are yet to find out whether these deadlines will be met and probably how it will be implemented. So in a nutshell, once an announcement stating us to update any particulars are released, that means UTP has upgraded the system. For now we just have to wait and see.