COMPUTER CENTRE

The main computer centre at this institution aims to provide state-of-the-art computing facility to the college community. CE Cherthala has computer and internet facilities as per the AICTE norms. The beautifully arranged systems facilitate ease and conducive working atmosphere for the staff and students of this organization. Users of the centre enjoy vistas of information superhighway through 8 mbps Broadband connectivity. The centre, through its dynamic young charming and proactive personalities, provides all possible supports to its user community to gather latest information on time. Students can make use of the internet from 9am to 5pm on all working days.

CEC have a campus data network of eight network broadcast sub domain. The sub domains are connected with single mode six cores optical fiber cable backbone and a 10 Gbps core switch. (One more 10 Gbps core switch provided as standby).The sub domains consists 1 Gbps edge switch of 15 numbers and indoor wifi access of 10 numbers. It can connect up to 360 numbers of UTP outputs.The front and rear side of main building block have outdoor wifi access service.The sub domains are Library, Mechanical/electrical workshop, computer lab1, computer lab2, computer lab3 (R&D lab), Office, Electronics department, General staff room.

National Knowledge Network (NKN)

Broadband connection with 1 Gbps speed provided by National Knowledge Network (NKN) in association with railnet, one BSNL broadband connection with 330 Mbps speed & 3300 GB download capacity/month and another BSNL broadband connection with a speed of 20 Mbps exclusively for Exam Cell. Up to 500 students can use this facility simultaneously. Firewall capable of managing band width and connection sharing for both NKN and BSNL broadband connections is used to manage campus network. IP phoney is enabled all over the campus. The entire network is efficiently supported by UPS and 60 KWA generator.

The NKN is a state-of-the-art multi-gigabit pan-India network for providing a unified high speed network backbone for all knowledge related institutions in the country. The purpose of such a knowledge network goes to the very core of the country's quest for building quality institutions with requisite research facilities and creating a pool of highly trained professionals with in-depth knowledge, NKN network is designed with the aim of providing:

Highest level of availability
Robust & reliable uninterrupted connectivity
Highest level of Scalability ( specifically planned to match the unknown future demands which cannot be envisaged currently)

Best Bandwidth Capacity: For NKN, various National Long Distance Carriers (NLDs) have provided 1Gbps/2.5Gbps capacity links which can be self healed. Further, the NLDs are in process of upgrading (using DWDM) to 10Gbps or more connectivity.