Blog: Category Archives: RENS & NRENS
Connecting Last-Mile Customers at 100 Gbps Leveraging High-Launch-Power Coherent Pluggable Optics
Learn how middle- and last-mile providers can connect last-mile customers at 1-to-100 Gbps by leveraging High Launch Power Coherent Pluggable optics (OpenZR+).
Doing More with Less: Balancing Network Energy Budgets through Spectrum Services
Learn about Spectrum Services, the latest innovation in service provisioning offered by CENIC over CalREN and how it makes network services more equipment- and energy-efficient.
Broadband-enabled Energy Innovations for Anchor Institutions: the latest from CENIC's California Broadband, Energy, and the Environment Series
Find out how CENIC was able to reduce its power use by over two thirds – a major cost savings and reduction in power consumption while still increasing capacity for its member communities.
Product Testing and Validation Testbeds as a Service over Middle-Mile Infrastructure
To vendors, service providers, or research teams, extensive middle-mile fiber infrastructure can play the role of an elastic testbed that matches real-world production networks.
CENIC’s Role in the “Broadband for All” Initiative
When Governor Newsom, California's legislature, and administration leaders launched the "Broadband for All" Initiative, they sought the experienced expertise of CENIC and its engineering talent to serve as third-party administrator. The CENIC Middle Mile Broadband Initiative, LLC, DBA GoldenStateNet, was launched to serve the goal of collapsing the digital divide for all Californians.
The California Middle Mile Broadband Initiative and CENIC: Creating a Bespoke Organization to Serve California
As a non-profit public benefit technology corporation, CENIC has been at the forefront of work to advance and expand access to its advanced network and help close the digital divide.
CA Broadband, Energy, and the Environment Series: the first installment in a new series
Find out how CENIC was able to reduce its power use by over two thirds – a major cost savings and reduction in power consumption while still increasing capacity for its member communities.
Responding to disasters: the CENIC community’s role in response and recovery
Fires, floods, earthquakes, and now pandemics have become part of the landscape for Californians in this second decade of the 21st Century.
Answering Your Questions about Middle-Mile Networks: a series from CENIC
CENIC has developed a series of concise, easy-to-read PDFs that can get any interested party up to speed on the hottest topic in networking today: Middle-Mile Networks.
Engaging the Minds We Need
Innovation frequently happens in the liminal spaces between disciplines, where different perspectives collaborate and create new insights into seemingly intractable problems, some of the most pressing of which are global climate change, economic development, and public health. But what happens when millions of vitally needed imaginations and perspectives – these minds – have no access to the cyberinfrastructure that makes global collaboration possible?