About the center :

The Computer & Communication Centre is solely responsible for keeping the Electronic Communication & Computation related facilities available to each and every member of IIT Guwahati.
The services provided by the Computer  & Communication Centre includes:

  • Installation & Maintenance of Servers/Devices for:
    • Internet Access (LAN & WiFi).
    • Web Hosting 
    • Computation Facilities.
  • Providing and managment of IIT Guwahati E-Mail Services.
  • Providing Web Hosting facilities.
  • Managment of IIT Guwahati websites.
  • Management of the institute telephone lines.
  • Management of the Centralized Computer Lab accessible to all the students of the institute as well as to other local researchers/students.
  • Maintaining the huge campus network, consisting about 10,000 nodes.
  • Providing technical assistance to the Academic Institutes and Organizations in and around Guwahati.
  • Providing facilities to the Students who come from various academic institutes from all over the world for their Short-term Courses, Project Work, Summer Training etc.
  • Provides & maintains the PCs of the Faculty & Staff members.
  • Providing Office Automation services.
  • Provinding Consultancy Services

These facilities are constantly upgraded to meet the evolving standards of IT. The Computer & Communication Centre remains open for Sixteen hours (8:00 AM to 12:00 AM) a day and the students visit the Centre for their routine computing tasks. Many departments use the facilities of the Computer & Communication Centre to conduct their practical classes & examinations.

The Computer & Communication Centre also manages the IITG LAN and Wifi, IITG Telephone Lines and provide support to the users. The campus LAN has been extended to all the hostels. New hardware and software are procured on a regular basis so as to provide a state of the art computing facility to the IITG family. The resource of the centre is also availed by students/researchers of other institutions in and around Guwahati.

Infrastructure :

The Computer & Communication Centre  occupies one-half of the 'Central Library & Computer & Communication Centre' building. It is spread over four floors with an area of about 5,000 sq. meter. The ground floor houses the Data Center housing the Karam Kamrupa HPC Facility, UPS room & a BSNL telephone exchange. The first floor is the main laboratory of the Centre where more then 300 users can be accommodated. The second floor has the server rooms, communication room, seating place for staff, Conference room etc. There is also a departmental server room in this floor, where all other departments can keep their Servers to avail the 24x7 service of the Centre. The third floor is has the Data Centre which houses all servers and Param Ishan HPC facility.

The PCs available in the lab are regularly upgraded to the latest specification for best user experience & productivity.

All the academic departments, hostels, guest house, sports complex & medical complex are connected through OFC to the core switch in the communication room. Internet access is availed from multiple ISPs to provide better connectivity and make the system fault-tolerant. Internet facility has been extended to the institute quarters and guest house through ADSL.

Multiple remote monitored UPSs are installed to ensure that the Centre get clean and uninterrupted power supply.

Activities :

The Computer & Communication Centre remains open for Sixteen hours in a day and the students visit the Centre for their routine computing task. Besides the resources of the Computer Center is used by the departments to conduct their practical courses.

The CSE dept conducts their computer programming practical in the Centre for the first year Btech students, the Mechanical Engineering Dept uses the Centre for their engineering drawing practical, students of ECE dept. use the Centre resources to work on Matlab. Likewise all the other departments conduct some of their labs in the Centre.

The Computer & Communication Centre is also responsible for Design and Development of Office Automation Sotwares used in IIT Guwahati and other tolls like CMS (Moodle, Notice Board, Complaint Booking System etc) .

Along with the institute's Internet website, the Centre also maintains the Intranet website. The Computer & Communication Centre imparts training to the staff members of the institute and orientation courses to the school teachers of the institute.

The Computer & Communication Centre conducts short term courses during vacations on the current topics of Information Technology. During the month of July 2003 the Centre conducted a training programme on “Web Enabled Application Development with Oracle 9i Application Server”. There were participants from all over the country.