Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center: General Information

The CRC makes available network and internet connection services to park tenants. This service currently consists of a 1 gigabyte fiber backbone connection between buildings and a connection to the internet through 4 T-1 lines from 2 different providers. A Cisco 6509 Switch provides the core services. Most buildings are wired with CAT-5 cabling and configured on a 10baseT or 100baseT switch topology. This system is managed for the CRC by BizNet. If you have technical questions about our setup contact them at 961-7560 or at hostmaster@vtcrc.net.
Companies may sign up for service by completing a Service Request. This system is managed as a shared network with the assumption that average usage can be conglomerated across many tenants resulting in substantial savings and high capacity. As such we do reserve the right to move high bandwidth tenants off the general system.
*BASIC Rate Schedule:* (to be paid by all tenants whose data services come in through the VTCRC infrastructure).
	Company monthly connection fee for one data portal: $60/ mth. This Basic Rate includes an allotment of 3 IP addresses and allowance of one server computer. FTE/Computer charge. (This is the number of Fulltime Equivalent Employees or the number of desktop computers - whichever is larger): $10 / mth. each
*ADDITIONAL Services Schedule:*
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.	Excess server charge. Each customer is entitled to one server computer in the base rate. Each excess server costs $15 a month. Additional data portal connections to our infrastructure at $15/ month each (includes 1 IP address per portal). IP address rental at $1.50/mo per extra IP address. Firewall provisioning for companies that do not have their own $10/month. Provide sub netting and direct routing (charge based on design). Provide IP telephony connection (to be arranged). Excess data usage $1/kbps per month over company expected usage. (See our website VTCRC.NET for more explanation).
*CRC Credit:*
	Many of you made a strong case that some of the data charges should be treated as a utility and be included in the rent you already pay. While we cannot at this time cover a substantial portion of basic data service that way, the CRC has been able to transfer some infrastructure costs to building costs that are paid out of rent income (this will not trigger any rent increase!). We are crediting these savings back to you by a formula that gives you credit for how long you have been in the park and for the size of the suite that you have. The amount of savings that can be passed back to you may vary over time to keep within our need to make sure that all our data costs are covered but hopefully we can continue giving some credits for the foreseeable future.
For additional information, please contact the CRC Administrative office.