other communication services.

There are many application systems

that the Department implements on this

network that include the Road and

Bridge Information Application (RBIA),

Geographic Information System (GIS),

Pavement Management System (PMS),

Bridge Management System (BMS),

Civil Works Registry (CWR), Traffic

Accident Reporting and Analysis System

(TARAS), Electronic New Government

Accounting System (e-NGAS) and

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District Engineering Offices and six 6

other offices, and 2) connect additional

45 District Engineering Offices (and Sub

-Districts) to the communication

network.

The expected benefit from this

project is a greatly improved

communication, both internal and

external to the Department. It also

provides the technology infrastructure for

data communications, which will allow

the implementation of application

systems, the use of electronic mail, the

utilization of internet service, and all

The DPWH is implementing the

National Road Improvement and

Management Program - Phase II

(NRIMP-2), a follow-up to the First

National Road Improvement and

Management Project (NRIMP-1) which

has also assisted the DPWH in

ins t i tu t iona l deve lopment and

construction/improvement of various

arterial roads.

Under the Institutional Capacity

Development Component, the Business

Improvement Projects (BIPs) include the

implementation in DPWH of priority

outputs identified in the Road

Information and Management Support

System (RIMSS) Project with the

objective of improving the quality and

delivery of DPWH services in the

provision and management of the road

system by providing an integrated

information system to support its

business processes. It is designed within

a framework coordinating all DPWH

responsibilities relating to the road

infrastructure system and its operations at

central, regional and districts levels

t h ro ugh the Dep ar tment - wid e

Communication Network.

About G06

In May 2001, the Department

implemented a nationwide integrated

voice and data network. This network is

the means to modernize and provide the

infrastructure for many of its work

processes. For NRIMP-2, the third phase

of its communication network will

1) upgrade the local and wide area

network that is currently in place in its

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Central Office Server... 2

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July - September 2011 Department of Public Works and Highways Volume XII, Issue III

Communication Network Equipment Upgrade

Present at the signing of contract were (from left, bottom row) Goulds Castillo Jr., Country Manager of the

Enterprise Arm and Jonathan Goh, President and Managing Director of Alcatel-Lucent Phils. Inc. (ALuP);

DPWH Secretary Rogelio L. Singson and Undersecretary Rafael C. Yabut, Undersecretary for PMOs;

(from left, top row) Cyril Pama, ALuP Business Development Director; Director B. Elizabeth E. Yap, MIS

Director and ICD Component Manager; Sharon Mabel G. Bautista, Chief, MIS Technology Support

Division; Cyrus V. Canto, G06 Project Manager

Brief comparison between the old and

the new servers

• Notable differences between the two

servers are the size of existing (7U)

and the new server (only 4U).

Further, the old server’s spare parts

are no longer available in the

market.

• On the processor side, the old

servers were first generation

Pentium processors while the new

servers now are capable of multi-

core processors. The new servers

boast of two 8-core processors.

• The new server sports a number of

features like supporting up to 2.0 TB

of memory, support to latest

processor technologies and software

applications that the current server

was unable to support. It is capable

in deploying large databases that

require scale-up compute processing,

large memory and I/O intensive

applications.

Joseph E. Damaso

Systems

Administration Section, MIS

Source:

1 www.microsoft.com

Pictures were taken from www.dell.com

and www.hp.com

The Monitoring and Information

Service (MIS) has procured 15 new

servers and associated software to

upgrade our existing Admin/Database

servers and software. The software

includes the Network Operating System

(NOS) upgraded from Windows 2000

Server to Windows 2008 Server and the

mail software upgraded from Microsoft

Exchange 2000 to MS Exchange 2010.

The old servers were procured in 1998

and after serving more than thirteen

years, upgrading is the most viable thing

to do. The new servers were delivered

on September 12, 2011. After all the

servers are installed and commissioned,

parallel testing of its software and

databases will be conducted by the

Network and System Administrators and

Application Support Group.

There will be downtime during

migration from the old to the new

servers. But with this upgrade, we can

expect to improve the efficiency of

application systems as well as other

network services.

In line with this, the MIS is also

undergoing renovations to accommodate

the new servers. Additional server racks

and UPS will be installed and the

electrical load capacity of the 5th Floor,

ICC Building where the Server Room is

located will be increased. This will

enable the MIS to connect more servers

in the future.

Basic features of Windows 2008 and

Exchange 2010 1

Windows 2008 Server

Overview

Windows Server 2008 is the most

substantial upgrade to the Windows

Server product line since Windows 2000,

with a sweeping set of capabilities and a

reengineered core that will usher in a

new era of 64-bit server computing.

Windows Server 2008 is feature-rich

upgrade with numerous functional

advantages over its predecessors. It is the

most robust Windows Server operating

system to date. With built-in, enhanced

Web and virtualization capabilities, it is

designed to increase the reliability and

flexibility of our server infrastructure

while helping save time and reduce costs.

Powerful tools give us greater control

over you servers, and streamline

configuration and management tasks.

Plus, enhanced security features work to

harden the operating system to help

protect our data and network and provide

a solid, highly dependable foundation for

our business applications.

Microsoft Exchange

2010 Overview

M i c r o s o f t

Exchange provides businesses with

email, calendar, and contacts on the PC,

phone & web:

• Multi-layered, anti-spam filtering

with continuous updates helps guard

against spam and phishing threats

• A variety of storage options gives

users bigger and more reliable

mailboxes

• New unified mailbox resilience

model that provides high

availability, disaster recovery, and

back up capabilities

• Ability to easily delegate

administration to specialized users

• A consistent inbox, calendaring, and

contacts experience across the PC,

browser and phone.

• Integrated conversation view

bringing together information across

all folders, inbox and sent and

deleted items

• Ability to ignore irrelevant

conversations with the click of a

button

• Mail Tips to notify users about

potential mistakes before they send e

-mail.

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Central Office Server Migration

Old server:

Dell PowerEdge 6600

New server:

HP ProLiant DL580

The Department of Public Works

and Highways recently signed a contract

with Alcatel-Lucent Philippines, Inc. the

winning bidder of the G06—

Communication Network Project under

the National Road Improvement and

Management Program - Phase II

(NRIMP-2), to upgrade the existing

communications infrastructure of

DPWH, and connect additional 45

District Engineering Offices (DEOs).

“The project is a critical component

of our ICT infrastructure which enables

us to improve transparency, increase

internal controls, and realize the benefits

of our IT-enabled process improvements

as part of the Department’s

Transformation Program,” DPWH

Monitoring and Information Service

Director B. Elizabeth Yap said during

the kick-off meeting for the project.

Alcatel-Lucent’s umbrella solution

will provide DPWH a cost-efficient

voice and data network infrastructure to

facilitate effective service delivery to

both the public and private sector. The

project is set to cover the voice and data

needs of more than 10,000 employees

across 100 sites nationwide.

“Our solution allows the ease of data

and service delivery from head office to

regional branches and district centers.

This allows the DPWH to significantly

cut down transport costs, and facilitate

clear communication. instead of

travelling to far-flung offices, they can

just schedule a convenient, uninterrupted

conference call with the use of these

technologies,” said Goulds Castillo Jr.,

Country Manager of the Enterprise arm

of the Alcatel-Lucent Philippines, Inc.

The new IP or Internet Protocol-

based infrastructure links computers,

applications and servers to a single data

center in the DPWH headquarters across

all DPWH offices nationwide .

Included in Alcatel-Lucent’s

solution package is its OmniPCX

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G06—Communication Network

Taken during G06 Project’ kick-off meeting. Top: DPWH-MIS and Alcatel-Lucent Phils., Inc. delegates;

Middle: Director B. Elizabeth Yap’s opening remarks; Bottom: Elroy Aragon, AluP CME Coordinator,

Jaymi Alexis Esteban, IT Specialist, and Engr. Cyrus Canto, G06 Project Manager

Did you know that the first movies to make extensive use of computer

simulation were Tron in 1982 followed by The Last Starfighter in 1984?

The first fully computer animated film was Toy Story.

Computer simulation has three meanings. 1) Computer simulation can refer to

a computer program that simulates an abstract model so that it can be studied

and analyzed. 2) It can also refer to a 3D computer graphics model made to

represent a three-dimensional object through the use of specialized software.

Finally, 3) computer simulation can refer to the practice called emulation in

which the functions of a particular system are reproduced on a second system.--

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/computer_simulation

Computer animation is a subset of both computer graphics and animation

technologies. It is the creation of moving images (animation) using computer

technology. Computer animation is broken down into two categories.

Computer-generated animation where the animation is designed solely on the

computer system using animation and 3D graphics software, and computer-

assisted animation where traditional animations are computerized. -- source:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/computer_animation.html

The three finger salute in a computer

We have all done it, but until now, most of us do not have a name for it. It is

the ctrl, alt and delete combination that will reboot the computer if it is held

down long enough. If you hold this combination of keys down quickly and

release them together, you get the task manager. If you press all three keys

down at the same time and hold them down it will reboot your machine.

David Bradley spent about five minutes coding that sequence back in 1980

and we still use it today.

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Document Tracking System (DoTS), to

name a few.

The Department is also planning to

implement other applications in the next

few years including (but not limited to)

Cost Es t imat ion, Procurement

Management, Contract Management and

Contract Preparation System.

Cyrus V. Canto

Network Administration Section, MIS

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Network Equipment)

TAMBULI is a quarterly publication of the DPWH

Monitoring and Information Service (MIS) in

support of the Institutional Capacity Development

Projects (ICD) and other IT-enabled Business

Process Improvements (BPIs) of the DPWH with

editorial business address at:

DPWH Head Office

Monitoring and Information Service

G/F ICC Bui lding

Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila

Phone: 3043202 / 3043558 Fax: 3043185

http://www.dpwh.gov.ph

computer trivia

Enterprise technology, which will

improve the voice capabilities of DPWH

internal communication system, and the

OmniSwitch and OmniAccess solutions,

which will ensure efficient data

transmission from office site to another.

Cyrus V. Canto

Network Administration Section, MIS

(Continued from page 3 - G06 Coomunication

Network...)