o Methodology: A Case Study
Figure 3 The Architecture of Networking at three Campuses of IUB
The university has more than 10,000 students in 47 different disciplines. The figure is increasing each year due
to the induction of new and innovative disciplines by the uinversity. The university has more than 2,000 emplyees.
The university has more than 200,000 books in its Resource Center and a Digital Library is also functioning
in the Resource Center. Table 1 below shows the number of students, the number of disciplines, the number of
books and the number of emplyees of the university from year 2000 to 2009.
Table 1. The Data of Students, Employees, Books and Disciplines from Year 2000-2009
Sr. Year No.
of Students
No. of Employees
No. of Books
No. of Disciplines
1 2000 3,000 500
75,000 22
2 2001 3,500 500
85,000 22
3 2002 3,300 500
85,000 22
4 2003 3,100 510
86,000 22
5 2004 4,000 575
90,000 25
6 2005 5,000 700
95,000 30
7 2006 7,000 800
100,000 35
8 2007 8,500 1,000
125,000 38
9 2008 10,000 1,500
150,000 47
10 2009 13,000 2,000
200,000 47
11 2010 14,500 2,000
210,000 48
A graph in figure 4 shows the yearly increase in the number of students. At the same time the number of
employees, the number of books and the number of disciplines are also increasing yearly.
2,000 4,000
6,000 8,000
10,000 12,000
14,000
1998 2000
2002 2004
2006 2008
2010
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