October 2020 - April 2021
Mike Schmidt, Matt Perna, & Jennifer Oxelson
**Remote working** -- with the entire Unidata staff working remote, it’s been a successful test of the infrastructure including bandwidth through the gateway systems and remote supporting staff with software and hardware issues and well as security and update management. Fortunately, we now have all three people listed above allowed and certified to be onsite if the circumstances warrant.
**Network upgrades** -- as UCAR upgrades their backbone infrastructure to 100Gb/s links, we will continue to upgrade our data movers (IDD cluster nodes, data aggregators, motherlode clones) from 2 x 1Gbp/s bonded ethernet to 10Gb/s as necessary.
**Security** -- we continue efforts to keep services and systems secure which takes consistent attention and occasional herculean efforts (to patch everything all at once). Unidata staff have moved as a group to use Duo two factor authentication. Initial access to most Unidata and UCAR resources requires some form of two factor authentication.
**LDM 7 node** -- we maintain a LDM7 test node at the Front Range GigaPOP (FRGP) just off downtown Denver in co-location with the major backbone networks supporting FRPG participants (UCAR, ..). We expect to support intensive data movement and LDM testing for the next few years on this effort.
Prepared April, 2021