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CENIC Members Enable Data-Driven Agriculture: Optimizing Harvests in a Changing Environment
The use of technology in agriculture to increase yield and decrease resources is the focus of an innovative project fueled by CENIC and its collaborative partners: a novel model of precision agriculture in the vineyards.
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Community Connections: The Network, Services, and Collaborative Opportunities Made Possible by CENIC
Learn how the CalREN backbone extends to every part of California, visit our new Community Portals for quicklinks to CENIC resources, and discover the CENIC initiatives that enable collaboration among our members and others nation- and worldwide.
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Ventura County Library Capitalizes on CENIC Membership to Provide eduroam Connectivity to Student and Faculty Patrons
By becoming eduroam Hotspot Operators, Ventura County Library and its branches offer the extremely valuable service of eduroam connectivity to its student and faculty residents.
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Explore the Future with Jupyter Notebooks and CENIC AIR
Jupyter notebooks are key tools for various research and data science tasks, such as exploratory data analysis (EDA) and scientific analysis, and educational uses. CENIC members are in an ideal position to use Jupyter Notebooks with the CENIC AI Resource (CENIC AIR).
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CENIC Completes 800 Gbps Upgrade to California Research and Education Network
CENIC has completed its 800G backbone upgrade, and by the end of this year, all suitable segments will be transitioned to coherent pluggable optics.
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CENIC Membership Enables San Joaquin Valley Library System’s Wi-Fi Revolution
CENIC member benefits including improved bandwidth and better vendor management at far less cost have made possible the San Joaquin Valley Library System's recent large-scale deployment of indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi at its many locations.
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The National Data Platform: Enabling Researchers to Cruise Vast Oceans of Data
Headed by SDSC Chief Data Science Officer İlkay Altıntaş, the National Data Platform makes vast databases available on an ever-growing variety of meteorological, geographic, and geologic sciences, as well as the services needed to make use of them.
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CENIC and its Members Help Prepare for, Recover from, and Respond to Disasters
CENIC member institutions serve as unsung heroes during public emergencies, offering patrons shelter, access to services and resources, education of first responders, vital research, and a sense of normalcy amid chaos.
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A Community of Champions: New Ways to Engage with One Another and CENIC
CENIC facilitates connection between members and itself through new online content meant to broaden member knowledge and encourage collaboration within and across segments while fostering greater engagement.
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Advancing AI for California’s Community Colleges through Collaboration Across the CENIC Membership
It’s been eight months since the San Diego Community College District connected to CENIC AIR—and CENIC membership was essential at every step of the way.
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NRP’s Vision: Open National Infrastructure for Research & Education Beyond R1 Institutions
The long-term goal of the National Research Platform (NRP) is an open national infrastructure allowing the federation of cyberinfrastructure at all the nation’s higher education institutions, nonprofit research institutions, and national libraries.
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CENIC on the Path to a Native 800 Gbps California Research and Education Network Backbone
Juniper collaborated with CENIC to enable the deployment of its PTX10002 packet transport routers, enabling CENIC to begin the process of achieving a native 800 Gbps backbone on geographically suitable segments that typically see heavy use.
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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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