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How CENIC AIR Enables Secure AI and Machine Learning Innovation
How CENIC AIR Enables Secure AI and Machine Learning Innovation
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CENIC and its Member Community in 2024: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Equity, and R&E Innovation
Learn more about the accomplishments of CENIC and its Member Community in 2024: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Equity, and R&E Innovation.
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CENIC Internships: Working with Higher Ed to Create a Skilled Workforce for the Future of Networking
CENIC's internship program helps talented engineering students in the CA community colleges learn about network engineering and gain real-world experience that give their resumes a valuable glow-up.
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CENIC AIR and Your Campus: From Concept to Connection
Learn more about how to get started thinking about how your campus can connect to and use the CENIC AI Resource.
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The Easy Button for DDoS Attacks: Fast, Convenient, Cost-Effective Mitigation for CENIC Member Institutions
San Diego Community College District was able to mitigate a DNS laundering attack quickly and cost-effectively thanks to the CENIC NOC and then join CENIC’s DDoS Mitigation Service.
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The Venue is the World: CENIC Helps SFJAZZ Share Music with Everyone
Learn how Mount Allen shares musical experiences with the public through his role at San Francisco Jazz (SFJAZZ), which uses CENIC infrastructure to livestream performances to classrooms and libraries across the state.
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The Strength of Community in Research and Education Security Trends
A panel of experts addressed safeguarding academic ecosystems. The hour-long discussion tackled current threats, incident response, data privacy and mandatory reporting requirements.
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Digital Navigators at California’s Public Libraries Help Bridge Broadband Divide
Libraries educate Californians on how to navigate the Internet, providing access to employment and training, telehealth, and more. To ensure that patrons can use these opportunities, libraries also provide digital navigators to assist patrons in acquiring digital skills.
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San Diego State University’s VERNE: Applying the CENIC AI Resource to Multi-disciplinary Instruction
SDSU has created a computing cluster for instruction operating over CENIC AIR called the VERNE, offering advanced graphical processing units (GPUs) and storage made available via JupyterHub, an easy-to-use web-based environment for accessing these resources.
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Adaptive Teaching and Learning: Artificial Intelligence in the K-12 Environment
VCOE's Julie Judd and Dana Thompson address using AI in the K12 classroom at CENIC's Biennial conference "The Right Connection," touching on adaptive teaching, administration, and privacy.
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CENIC Network Automation Update: New Network-Source-of-Truth Tool Implemented
CENIC has evaluated and worked with various DCIM platforms to meet this need and concluded that NetBox was the best fit for its environment as its Network Source of Truth.
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Connecting California: Exploring the State of Middle- and Last-mile Broadband Funding
All CENIC member Institutions, enjoy the opportunities made possible by broadband availability, access, and adoption. The challenges associated with the work to bring broadband to middle- and last-mile communities can be almost as large as the opportunities broadband offers. Valuable advice to overcome these challenges and make the most of the opportunities was highlighted by this expert panel.
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400 Gbps and Beyond: How CENIC Provides the Sustainable Growth in Bandwidth Your Institution Needs
Learn how the CalREN backbone has gone from 10 to 400 Gbps since 2010, and what the plan is to boost it to 800 Gbps in the near future.
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A Community of Innovation: National Research and Education Networks in North America
In a CENIC Conference panel discussion, leaders of CANARIE, CUDI, Internet2, ESnet, and CENIC, addressed how their organizations and user communities approached AI and machine learning as major players in the global collaborative REN ecosystem.
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CENIC’s Integrated, Multi-Tool Approach to Network Configuration Management
At the CENIC Biennial Conference, network engineers discussed Network Configuration Management (NCM) at CENIC – how and why it was implemented, the components that comprise it, how it’s used, and its potential for the future.
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Next-Gen Stewardship of Urban Sea Systems: Balancing Economic Vitality, Environmental Decline, Homeland Security, and Social Justice
Oceanographer John Delaney discusses how digital twins can help model the behavior of major urban sea systems and improve their economic vitality, environmental health, homeland security, and social justice.
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Three Quick Guidelines to Help Your Organization Stay Safe from RPKI-Related Hacking
Using secure passwords, enabling MFA, and defining those authorized to make changes to your ARIN account can help your institution avoid RPKI-related hacking.
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From the Ground to the Stars: Critical Big-Data Research in Africa
Learn about critical data-dependent research collaborations currently taking place in the nations of Africa, all of which require integration into the global high-performance network and cyberinfrastructure environments.
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Connecting Last-Mile Customers at 100 Gbps Leveraging High-Launch-Power Coherent Pluggable Optics
Learn how middle- and last-mile providers can connect last-mile customers at 1-to-100 Gbps by leveraging High Launch Power Coherent Pluggable optics (OpenZR+).
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Doing More with Less: Balancing Network Energy Budgets through Spectrum Services
Learn about Spectrum Services, the latest innovation in service provisioning offered by CENIC over CalREN and how it makes network services more equipment- and energy-efficient.
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Broadband-enabled Energy Innovations for Anchor Institutions: the latest from CENIC's California Broadband, Energy, and the Environment Series
Find out how CENIC was able to reduce its power use by over two thirds – a major cost savings and reduction in power consumption while still increasing capacity for its member communities.
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Product Testing and Validation Testbeds as a Service over Middle-Mile Infrastructure
To vendors, service providers, or research teams, extensive middle-mile fiber infrastructure can play the role of an elastic testbed that matches real-world production networks.
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CENIC’s Role in the “Broadband for All” Initiative
When Governor Newsom, California's legislature, and administration leaders launched the "Broadband for All" Initiative, they sought the experienced expertise of CENIC and its engineering talent to serve as third-party administrator. The CENIC Middle Mile Broadband Initiative, LLC, DBA GoldenStateNet, was launched to serve the goal of collapsing the digital divide for all Californians.
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The California Middle Mile Broadband Initiative and CENIC: Creating a Bespoke Organization to Serve California
As a non-profit public benefit technology corporation, CENIC has been at the forefront of work to advance and expand access to its advanced network and help close the digital divide.
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CA Broadband, Energy, and the Environment Series: the first installment in a new series
Find out how CENIC was able to reduce its power use by over two thirds – a major cost savings and reduction in power consumption while still increasing capacity for its member communities.
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Wireless on the Edge: Connecting Hard-to-Serve Areas
Hard-to-reach areas may require wireless edge networks to connect to a middle-mile backbone. Tradeoffs in frequency, license status, and power can make it challenging to determine the best solution.
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California’s Landmark “Internet for All Initiative” featuring CENIC’s Key Role Launches Marconi Society Webinar Series
Through its webinar series “A National Inflection Point: The Intersection of Research & Education Networks and Sustainable Digital Equity Initiatives”, the Marconi Society will feature state initiatives underway to share creative approaches to solving predictable challenges with extending R&E infrastructure beyond its legacy community of educational institutions.
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Responding to disasters: the CENIC community’s role in response and recovery
Fires, floods, earthquakes, and now pandemics have become part of the landscape for Californians in this second decade of the 21st Century.
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Answering Your Questions about Middle-Mile Networks: a series from CENIC
CENIC has developed a series of concise, easy-to-read PDFs that can get any interested party up to speed on the hottest topic in networking today: Middle-Mile Networks.
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Get Your Cybersecurity Program Up and Running with the Trusted CI Framework
Learn about the Trusted CI Framework, developed by the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and created to help your scientific research facility overcome the obstacles to standing up a cybersecurity program for its cyberinfrastructure.
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CENIC in 2022: A Groundbreaking Year for CENIC and California
Learn more about CENIC’s achievements in 2022 including GOLDENSTATENET, Tribal engagement, broadband advocacy, increased performance, efficiency, and resilience for CalREN, our 25th anniversary celebration, and the return of our in-person annual conference.
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Engaging the Minds We Need
Innovation frequently happens in the liminal spaces between disciplines, where different perspectives collaborate and create new insights into seemingly intractable problems, some of the most pressing of which are global climate change, economic development, and public health. But what happens when millions of vitally needed imaginations and perspectives – these minds – have no access to the cyberinfrastructure that makes global collaboration possible?
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Solving Network Connections for USC on Catalina Island
CalREN connection and resiliency for USC's Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and its Marine Science Center on Catalina Island
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Minding Our MANRS: CENIC and Global Internet Routing Security
Learn about CENIC’s participation in the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, which ensures a more secure Internet that is less likely to experience network routing issues and distributed denial of service attacks.
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Rich Fagen and Networks: from Big Science to High Culture
Rich Fagen, until very recently the Chief Digital Officer at the J. Paul Getty Trust or the Getty, was among the creative founders who helped form CENIC in the 1990s. Now on the occasion of his retirement, his career can be regarded as the perfect reflection of the way high-performance networking – initially created to support data-driven big science – has become just as vital for data-driven arts and culture.
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Tribal Broadband Connectivity: Obstacles, Opportunities, Optimism
At CENIC’s 2022 Annual Conference, Tribal telecommunications experts Matthew “Speygee” Douglas, Linnea Jackson, and Matt Rantanen shed light on a few of the stubborn obstacles to Tribal broadband deployments – what they are and how they complicate Tribal broadband deployments in California – and how progress has been made in the face of them. They also reminded attendees that these challenges may take on different aspects for the 574 federally recognized Tribes throughout the US.
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Old Problems Need New Solutions: Digital Equity in California
To solve problems that have never been solved, we must do things that have never been done. In a nutshell, this was the message shared by California leaders in economic development, higher education, policy, and infrastructure during the “Digital Equity in California” panel at CENIC’s 2022 Conference that took place this September in Monterey, CA.
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CENIC Welcomes Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center
CENIC is pleased to welcome Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center to its community of leading-edge R&E network users. “We’re looking forward to seeing what we can do with this network,” said Dr. Neal Hurlburt, Senior Manager of Space Sciences and Instrumentation. “We know this connection will allow us to collaborate more closely with our customers and partners.”
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Next Generation Infrastructure, Boosted by MPLS, Delivers Results
As CENIC continues the march forward in its upgrade of the CalREN backbone, an important feature of this work has been the migration of member and Associates’ services to Multi-Protocol Label Switching or MPLS with segment routing. Already, CENIC’s engineering teams are closing in on migrating 50 percent of members to MPLS, an exciting achievement that enables a range of new features.
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The Future of Network Automation at CENIC
The Future of Network Automation at CENIC: the CENIC Network Operations Center implemented a hotly anticipated enhancement to its customer service functions: targeted network announcements. With this new enhancement, authorized contacts at connected sites throughout California will receive tailored email announcements should a planned or unplanned outage specifically impact their service. More information about the new targeted network announcements can be found at cenic.org.
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The Broadband Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Identifies and Connects Schools to CalREN
The Broadband Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Identifies and Connects Schools to CalREN
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The San Diego Promise Zone: Connecting Potential with Promise
The San Diego Promise Zone: Connecting Potential with Promise When parts of San Diego became one of the twenty-two federally designated Promise Zones in the U.S., the community came together in creative ways to improve the quality of life for all Zone residents. The focus of the initiative is to increase access to everything from affordable housing to jobs, safe environments, educational opportunities, healthcare, and economic activity.
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CENIC Support for NOAA
We have come to expect much from those who predict and forecast weather as our ever-changing climate impacts our lives. And those whose job it is to provide us with that information rely on NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, within the US Department of Commerce. Today NOAA’s predictive strength is linked to N-Wave, it's network service provider that ensures high quality, highly scalable connections and network solutions to its federal agency via science, research, and education partners across the country.
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CENIC Promotes Key Employees
Despite the impact of a global pandemic and the unique climate challenges in our state, this team has risen to a range of opportunities to further our mission by pursuing an upgraded network via the Next Generation Infrastructure initiative; assumed a range of responsibilities involving our support for the GoldenStateNet initiative; and, ensured Californian’s remained connected to each other and the world despite the challenges.
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Transformed Infrastructure for Sustained Network Connections at SC22
Each year, networking engineers from CENIC and its partners spend weeks devising critical infrastructure to enable a range of demonstration projects, dedicating nearly eighty percent of the effort to building the network infrastructure for the demonstrations, with the demonstrations themselves receiving twenty percent of the focus. That distribution of effort was forever shifted with a few innovative decisions resulting from the SC21 conference that retained the network infrastructure developed in support of dynamic, multi-domain path provisioning developed for the event. And those decisions are already having an impact on planning for SC22.
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