Research Computing is planning for advanced network capabilities to support the research environment at RIT. The initial goal is to connect research areas on campus to the 1 Gigabit RIT backbone at an equivalent capacity.

As of 5/1/07, two levels in building 76 and two levels in building 74 are now connected at 1 Gigabit. In addition, a few ports in building 74 are also configured to use IPv6.

The next goal is to gain access to 10 Gigabit networks from experimental research areas to support research and development work in distributed parallel computing and uncompressed high definition video over IP networks for real time communications.