The University has played and continues to play a leading role in network services in Ohio. The Assistant Vice president for Information Services, Debra Keller, chaired the OARnet technical advisory committee, while a former Associate Vice President chaired the task force which created OhioLINK, the statewide library system, during the organization's formative years. Debra Keller is now vicechair of the OARnet steering committee and is a member of the executive committee and the finance committee.  Michael Donnelly is UA's Wide Area Network Project Leader.  He and his staff have built a campus network that includes 5000 nodes, in 85 buildings with an FDDI Ring.  There are also 300 dial-in ports over an access server and an Internet connection, which is setup over four T-1 lines.  In addition Donnelly and his staff have installed Cabletron Ethernet hubs, Cisco Catalyst 5500 and 1010 switches using ATM.  Donnelly has attended training on Cisco LAN switch configurations and Cisco ATM solutions.