In the lecture I would like to give an overview of the last 10 years concerning the network development and the challenges of local infrastructure. In spite of the effort the Institute made during the last 5 years to increase the level of the infrastructure, the devices serving the research and education are not satisfying the requirements of the digital age. On the other hand, with the developments that had been made so far, the quality of the data transfer and the management of the working system has been definitely improved. Our aim in the future involves the possibility of further technical development and better integration to the existing education and research networks.

Introducing the Internet technology brought a lot of changes in our college as well. It has been materialised especially in gaining and transferring information and in the development of contacts between institutes and individuals (lecturers and students as well). A number of fruitful contacts has been formed with foreign colleges particularly in computer aided education and in e-learning as well. More and more courses apply Internet services in a direct or indirect way.

In the lecture I am going to give an image of our technical developments in the near future and I would also like to sketch our long-term plans.