First off, I’m the “new guy,” so I’m just getting up to speed with a lot of the following information. If you have follow up questions, I’ll do my best, but my answers might be lacking the details you’re looking for!
We’re moving toward a major rebuild of our master control/playout automation and routing systems. Part of which is going to include the creation of a redundant offsite backup of major critical systems that will allow us to flip over to the backup system as we do our major facility renovations. We’re pretty settled on Crispin for automation and Harmonic Spectrum X for playout. Routing is where we’re just not satisfied.
A complete 2110 transition is out of the question, for now. We’re dreaming of a distributed hybrid routing model that would put a primary router (likely 160x160 or slightly fewer) in the main building and a significantly smaller router at the backup location, that would be connected by fiber tie-lines that are already in place. The goal is to have access to any routable source at both locations.
Closest we’ve seen so far is Ross Ultrix, though there are a couple things we’re not fully satisfied with.
Anyone else have any favorites or thoughts on a design like this?
I was on campus from 02-08 for undergrad and grad school. Parking was AWFUL. Twice, I ended dropping a T/R class on the first week because there was no place to park.
SBX and Malt Shop on the north end were cool, but I honestly didn’t know anyone who went there. Seemed like a thing freshmen would do occasionally until the novelty wore off.
Academically, I don’t know that it really was any different. I’ve always been a believer that you get out of education what you put into it. There were just as many complaints about classes/profs back then. If you dug in and made a solid effort, though, even the “hardest” classes taught you something. I thoroughly enjoyed all my student years.
Having spent seven years (14-21) working on the academic side, I DO feel that many instructors and professors have become more jaded and less engaged with classes. Driven by a combination of campus leadership concerns, budgetary constraints that ask more and more from them, and topped off by an overall lack of respect from the majority of students. With shrinking faculty and staff numbers, teaching, grading, advising, researching, recruiting, and assessment are all being lumped on to fewer and fewer plates. Then they show up to class to find only about 3 out of 20 students have any actual interest in the course material, yet the remaining 17 expect the same grades as the 3 who bust ass and kill every assignment. That may not have been EVERYONE’s experience, but that was the sentiment I got from every department meeting I ever sat in.
Anyone who went to CMU in the 2000s before enrollment started declining - what was it like?
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