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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.

CENIC in 2022: A Groundbreaking Year for CENIC and California

Categories The CENIC Community

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

Tribal Broadband Connectivity: Obstacles, Opportunities, Optimism

Categories Equity & Access Tribal

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.

Old Problems Need New Solutions: Digital Equity in California

Categories Equity & Access

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.

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.”

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.