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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.

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.

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.

California’s Landmark “Internet for All Initiative” featuring CENIC’s Key Role Launches Marconi Society Webinar Series

Categories Equity & Access

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.

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.

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.

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