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Blog: Category Archives: Libraries
Digital Navigators at California’s Public Libraries Help Bridge Broadband Divide
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.
Wireless on the Edge: Connecting Hard-to-Serve Areas
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.
Responding to disasters: the CENIC community’s role in response and recovery
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.
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.
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
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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.
Understanding Network Impacts of Increased Online Learning
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.
Libraries Expand Lifelong Learning Options through Broadband
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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.
Zero-Trust Networking Enhances Security in Research and Education Environments
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.
CENIC Helps to Power Virtual Reality in California Libraries and Shape Workforce of Tomorrow
Categories Libraries
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Libraries across California are making virtual reality a reality — with help from CENIC’s high-capacity broadband network, which eliminates the latency and jitter that can ruin such programs. Exposure to such exciting new technologies might set kids on a path to become researchers and inventors themselves.
Getting the Grant: Federal Agencies Share Success Stories for Connected Community Proposals
Categories Cultural & Scientific Libraries RENS & NRENS
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Two federal agencies, the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, recognize that robust broadband is essential to discovering and disseminating knowledge. Both organizations offer grant funding to advance broadband services and create connected communities. Hear about successful projects and upcoming grant opportunities.