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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

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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

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!

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

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

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?

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

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.

PRP Boosts Inter-Campus Collaboration on Brain Research

Neuroscience researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz, University of California San Francisco, and Washington University in St. Louis use the cloud-scale Pacific Research Platform and National Research Platform to share and compute massive open-source datasets, accelerating experiment times from weeks to mere hours.