CORE Resources

About us

The CORE Resources Group is a joint group between the New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical School. The name represents the "central" or "core" role we play in the day to day operations of electronic data communications for the institutions we serve.

What we do

The group is composed of both Hospital and University employees. Our responsibilities are primarily the design, implementation and maintenance of the Campus Data Network for purposes of voice, video and data traffic serving both New York Presbyterian Hospital West Campus and Columbia University Medical School Health Sciences Campus -- as well as our extensive wide area network.

CORE Resources designs the network, implements the necessary equipment and technologies and integrates them all together to seamlessly connect all aspects of [ip-mediated] voice, video and data communications in the institution. We then maintain the infrastructure on an ongoing, pro-active basis to ensure the reliability and efficiency of those communications.

What we have built

Devices connect to the network over Fast or Gigabit Ethernet LANs in the various buildings around the campus. (There are still a few pockets of older Ethernet here and there.) Redundant Gigabit Ethernet links connect the buildings together and the campuses (and Internet) are linked by redundant underground fiber-optic connections.
Parts of the campus have wireless networking implemented using 802.11x (WiFi) with encryption and authentication by WPA.
In our Wide Area Network (WAN), we maintain extensive FrameRelay, Point to Point T1, T3, fractional services through public carriers (e.g. Verizon). We also use Microwave and WiFi connections to close remote locations (buildings that are in the neighborhood -- or on the Palisades in New Jersey).

We maintain

Other services we design, implement and support are DNS, IP management and DHCP as well as remote connectivity via VPN. The department also runs a Mail eXchange gateway for many of the University and Hospital departments.

Contact us

As a CUMC IT department, CORE Resources enlists the CUMC IT Service Desk to provide first level technical support 7 days a week; please contact extension 5-Help first for immediate assistance with any technical questions or problems, including emergencies.