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UCI Wireless Guest Access Now Available

UCI Wireless Guest Access Now Available

by | Dec 19, 2022 | News

Guests visiting the UC Irvine campus will now have access to wireless internet via a new guest option. The option “UCI-Guest” will now appear in Wi-Fi settings, allowing for quick connection and access without the required steps and verification needed to set up Wi-Fi through UCInet Mobile Access. 

Wireless guest access will only allow for basic internet browsing capabilities, and was not intended for regular use by students, faculty or staff. 

Visit the OIT website for detailed instructions for joining UCI’s Wi-Fi network.

UCI Campus Internet Upgrade

UCI Campus Internet Upgrade

by | Jun 21, 2022 | News

The Campus Internet Upgrade was completed successfully on July 9, 2022. The campus border to the internet was upgraded from a complex legacy architecture to a simplified, modern border that provides almost 3 times the bandwidth, and significantly improves network security and operational resilience.

The Office of Information Technology (OIT), in collaboration with UCI Health Information Services, is embarking on a multi-million dollar upgrade to improve the campus community’s access to the Internet.  

The project will increase UCI’s connection to the Internet by a factor of 10, while simultaneously improving both the security and reliability of that connection.  The scope and complexity of this upgrade require a complete interruption of campus and medical center internet services between 10 PM – 12 AM on Friday, July 8, 2022, followed by intermittent but brief outages over the following 10 hours.

UCInetID Logins Affected
Cloud-based services requiring campus authentication services such as WebAuth and Shibboleth will not be available during the outage.

Services that WILL be impacted during this maintenance window include:  

  • Internet services for campus buildings and medical center users
  • Remote users connecting to campus-based resources
  • OIT-supported residential buildings 
  • Wireless internet services campuswide, including Resnet, Mobile Access, and Eduroam
  • New authentication sessions or sessions that time out during this window will fail to re-authenticate during the main outage window
  • New Email sessions requiring authentication will fail to authenticate 
  • Internal campus and residential users will receive failure errors when trying off-campus websites
  • VPN services to campus, medical center, and library resources
  • Offsite backups to Internet service providers

Services that will NOT be impacted during this maintenance window include:  

  • AWS Public Access
  • Internal campus network resources
  • Genetec
  • Internal links between campus clinics to Medical Center
  • Medical Center Epic
  • Facnet 

Updates for this upgrade will be provided on the OIT website via the Status Dashboard.