Student life

Computer resources

work stations

The IT department provides students and teaching staff with customised and effective IT resources. The department manages an IT system comprising 1000 work stations.

The ten computer rooms designed for practical work, each equipped with a scanner, provide a total of 100 workstations each under three years old which can be used 24/7. These workstations are configured to run both Linux and Windows. Students have access to other computer rooms and to CD burners.

Each student is given a personal account and an inbox with total storage capacity of 1Giga. The discussion forums and shared storage areas are used on a daily basis. In the event of a problem, students have access to an internal helpdesk.

The School also has licences with the main solutions developers and offers a wide range of software (Microsoft, Sas, Matlab...).

Networks

Networks are naturally an integral part of the school. Fibre optics, terrestrial networks and lasers are the main networks used on the campus.

All the main student meeting areas are equipped with a local wireless network in accordance with the 802.11g standard: These include the forum, lecture halls, Multimedia Library, Management Building and a section of the cafeteria.

In order to be connected to the outside world, Telecom SudParis has a gigabit connection to the Evry metropolitan network, made up of 70km of fibre optic cables. The network links Telecom SudParis to the Génopole®, the University of Evry and the Ecole des Mines.
The commercial internet is accessed via a connection to the Renater network.

Audiovisual

Telecom SudParis has approximately forty teaching rooms equipped with video projectors as well as two lecture halls with sound systems and equipped with video projectors and a control room.

It has a digital editing unit used for numerous student projects, a digital encoding unit and a VOD server capable of transmitting lectures in real time in Real or Mbone format.

Telecom SudParis also has a video-conferencing centre which hosts video conferences and video-conferenced classes (RNIS or IP) and uses multicasts to broadcast lectures online.

Many rooms are also equipped with televisions, video recorders, DVD players and cameras, and the campus is also served by an audiovisual analogue network, plasma screens, LCD. This network is also equipped with a twin satellite dish and a connection to digital terrestrial TV.

The language resource centre is equipped with thirteen multimedia workstations and semi-autonomous language learning software for the main languages taught in the school.

Finally, since the start of the 2007 academic year, students have had access to the new student information system which is entirely web-based and integrated into a personalised services portal. Using a simple navigator, they can access personalised learning resources (marks, class timetables, course information, student information, online assessments, online group photo).

Facts and figures

about the IT system:

• 10 practical work rooms each with 13 workstations
• 20 practical specialist work rooms and platforms
• 1,000 PCs
• 60 servers (WINDOWS and UNIX)
• 100 printers

… and about the audiovisual facilities:

• Five fifteen-seater audio-visual classrooms, equipped with cameras, TV screens, video recorders and DVD players.
• Numerous mobile TV / video recorders
• A forty-seater video conferencing centre equipped for classes.
• 40 teaching rooms equipped with video projectors and a pool of projectors available for borrowing.
• A digital editing unit and a sound recording studio.
• An audiovisual resource centre equipped with language learning software.
• An on-demand video server and a streaming server.
• An analogue audiovisual network linked by satellite and TNT.