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Categories CSU Libraries Equity & Access
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.
Categories Libraries Equity & Access
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.
Categories Libraries Equity & Access Tribal
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.
Categories K-12 Libraries Private Sector Equity & Access GOLDENSTATENET Tribal
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.
Categories K-12 Libraries RENS & NRENS The CENIC Community
Fires, floods, earthquakes, and now pandemics have become part of the landscape for Californians in this second decade of the 21st Century.
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.
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.
Categories CCCs CSU University of California K-12 Libraries RENS & NRENS
While COVID-19 is creating unprecedented uncertainty, Research and Education Networks such as CENIC's CalREN will play an important role in supporting our educational institutions as they increasingly move to online learning. CENIC has prepared this information as a resource for members who have moved to, or are contemplating moving to, online instruction.
Tags conference digital divide
With ever-increasing advancements in information and technology, continuing education has never been more important. Every day, libraries are leveraging their robust CENIC broadband connection to expand lifelong learning programs and provide access to education in their communities.
Categories CCCs CSU Cultural & Scientific University of California K-12 Libraries Private Sector Independent Universities RENS & NRENS
Zero-trust networking may be uniquely capable of tackling the security issues confronted by R&E environments. Experts from Google, Netflix, the UC Office of the President, San Bernardino County schools, and the San Francisco Library weigh in on security challenges and solutions.