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CENIC PERSPECTIVES: Wireless Internet Technologies for Access, Equity, and Continuity
Categories Equity & Access CENIC Perspectives
Wireless technologies have the potential to address many common challenges facing the CENIC community. While CENIC is not providing wireless connections, we have been working with our members, offering our expertise in solving access and equity problems, and providing referrals to our private sector partners.
Libraries Are Key to Providing Broadband Access to California Communities
Categories Libraries
We live in an increasingly interconnected world, and to fully participate in it—whether that means searching for information online, distance learning, or interviewing for a job on Zoom—requires ever-increasing bandwidth. Unfortunately, approximately one in eight households in California lacks high-speed Internet access, with the digital divide having a disproportionate impact on people of color and low-income and rural households.
Ongoing Upgrades Support the Evolution of CalREN
Categories RENS & NRENS
In accordance with our strategic plan, CENIC staff are completing network upgrades that will ensure network reliability, deploy cost-saving technologies, decrease our environmental footprint, and enable high-capacity services.
Coastal Path Upgrades Represent a Milestone in Infrastructure Sharing Between CENIC and Internet2
Categories RENS & NRENS
Tags internet2
The completion of 400G upgrades represents a milestone in infrastructure sharing between CENIC and Internet2 as both networks move to higher-bandwidth technologies and seek to reduce both cost and environmental impact.
Internet Exchange Points: An Essential Infrastructure for Rural Broadband Initiatives
Categories RENS & NRENS Equity & Access
IXPs are one of the building blocks around which the Internet is built. They are the physical locations where networks come together, and where content providers place content closer to end users to increase the speed and efficiency of networks. Currently, there are dozens of IXPs nationwide but most of them are concentrated in big cities. Increasing the number of IXPs across California will result in a more resilient, competitive, and interconnected Internet (especially for households in more rural areas).
Broadband for Every California Household: One Gigabit or Bust!
Categories Equity & Access CENIC Perspectives
It is now time to renew and redouble our efforts towards one-gigabit broadband for all Californians at home, as well as at school and work.
California Cultural Institutions Increase Online Initiatives During COVID Pandemic
Categories Cultural & Scientific RENS & NRENS
CENIC’s member cultural institutions have launched innovative digital initiatives to reach people at home during the pandemic, providing valuable resources for the research and education community and beyond.
In a Time of Pandemic, Members Share Insight on the Power of Research and Education Networks
Categories RENS & NRENS
Tags american library association internet2 irvine unified school district mid-atlantic crossroads pacific northwest gigapop stanford university the getty UC Health university of california
We asked some of our members to share how they have adapted their work and continued to fulfill their academic and service missions during the recent stay-at-home orders. We learned that while members’ use of the networks has changed, everyone we heard from said the value of R&E networks like CENIC and Internet2 continues to be realized through the human networks with which they connect; affordable, reliable, and scalable infrastructure, services, and support; public access to digital resources; and advanced networking tools to enable critical scientific research.
CENIC Perspectives : What Home Broadband Requirements are Necessary for Students (and Families) During COVID-19 and Beyond?
Categories RENS & NRENS Equity & Access CENIC Perspectives
Tags broadband calren digital divide digital divide human rights people-centered internet equity and access research and education
In this report, CENIC President and CEO Louis Fox discusses broadband requirements and policy considerations to achieve gigabit access for all Californians.
Network Traffic Analysis Shows Changing Activity Patterns During COVID-19 Pandemic
Categories CCCs CSU Cultural & Scientific University of California Healthcare K-12 Libraries Independent Universities RENS & NRENS Pacific Wave
Tags calren pacific wave
Even as campuses, schools, libraries, and cultural institutions have closed amid stay-at-home orders, CENIC’s networks have remained a vital part of the Internet ecosystem for online learning and community engagement, remote access to research data and specialized computing facilities, academic medicine and clinical care, and work-from-home operations.