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Blog: Category Archives: Independent Universities
Solving Network Connections for USC on Catalina Island
Categories Cultural & Scientific Independent Universities
Tags biology environment usc
CalREN connection and resiliency for USC's Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and its Marine Science Center on Catalina Island
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.
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.
Collaboration Kept Pepperdine Connected During Wildfires
Categories Independent Universities RENS & NRENS
With the Woolsey wildfire closing in on its campus, Pepperdine University worked with CENIC to save critical internet service and keep the university’s communication lines open for parents, students, faculty, and staff to stay informed during the emergency. Engineers responded quickly, many volunteered to help, and partners collaborated with agility.
Leading the Charge on Science DMZs to Support Big-Data Research
Categories Independent Universities RENS & NRENS
Scientists working in fields such as genomics, climate science, and galaxy exploration accumulate huge data sets that require high-performance computer networking. Science DMZs and the Pacific Research Platform enable researchers to collaborate securely on these data sets from far-flung locations. Learn how UC Santa Cruz developed its cyberinfrastructure.
CENIC Presents Innovations in Networking Awards
Categories CCCs CSU Cultural & Scientific University of California Healthcare K-12 Libraries Private Sector Independent Universities RENS & NRENS
Each year CENIC presents the Innovations in Networking Awards to highlight the exemplary innovations that leverage ultra-high bandwidth networking, particularly where those innovations have the potential to transform the ways in which instruction and research are conducted or where they further the deployment of broadband in underserved areas.
Pacific Research Platform: The Future of Big Data Collaboration
The Pacific Research Platform supports a broad range of data-intensive research projects that will impact science and technology worldwide. To meet the needs of researchers in California and beyond, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a five-year, $5-million grant to fund the Pacific Research Platform (PRP).
CENIC Engineer Julia Staats: 2016 Women in Networking SC Award Winner
Categories Independent Universities RENS & NRENS
CENIC network engineer Julia Staats was chosen to help build and operate SCinet, the high-capacity Supercomputing Conference network.