Data Rates: Central Service Fee

The Central Service Fee (CSF) provides funding for the Central Infrastructure Bundle through which ISC provides numerous core networking and telecommunications services to the University community. Through a series of strategic efforts, ISC is able to keep FY’14 rates low, while greatly enhancing network capacity, security, and collaboration services  and launching several new features. For FY’14, a $200K increase to the Central Service Fee is offset by a $300K reduction in rates for network ports and a projected $400K savings on telephony via PennNet Phone and associated audits and clean-up.  All changes to the CSF reflect broad discussion with the Network Planning Task Force, which has made recommendations following a careful review of rates and services.

Security Enhancements
To strengthen Penn’s defenses in a world where organized network intrusions have become more prevalent, the FY’14 Central Service Fee will fund new and enhanced security features:

• Safe DNS:  A managed DNS service that helps to prevent web connections to Internet sites that have been identified as being associated with Internet malware.
• InCommon Certificate Service:  A University-wide license for reduced- cost secure web server certificates.

Collaboration Tools
To support secure file storage and collaboration, while offering the assurance that University data and intellectual property are securely protected, the FY’14 Central Service Fee will fund:

• Penn+Box:  A cloud-based file storage and sharing service that provides applications and tools to facilitate secure collaboration and data sharing among the University community and researchers world-wide.
• Enterprise Social Networking Pilot: A pilot for a social network to facilitate secure communication and collaboration among members of the University community.

In FY 2014, the Central Service Fee will cover: