Profile

The Infrastructure department takes care of everything that has to work in the background so that WLAN, Internet, e-mail and other IT applications can be used at Paderborn University. With its own central computers, large data storage capacity and a wide range of peripheral devices it provides computing capacity and information services for users. In addition, a constantly growing local network is operated and maintained. A fast connection to the scientific network provides access to many computers at other universities as well as worldwide communication via the Internet.

Organization and tasks

The Infrastructure department is divided into three teams

• Networks
• Servers and Systems
• Network and Security Services

The department is responsible for the selection, procurement, operation and ongoing development of all hardware components for the IT infrastructure (WAN, LAN, WLAN, DataCenter, servers, storage, security), provides network and security services (DNS, DHCP, VPN, data backup) and manages the virtualization platform (VMware) and the supported server operating systems (Debian Linux, Microsoft Windows Server).

Contact persons

Christopher Odenbach (Head of Department), Philipp Bluhm (Networks Team), Johannes Kampmeyer (Servers and Systems Team), Raphael Klein (Network and Security Services Team).