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Blog: Category Archives: RENS & NRENS
CENIC Promotes Key Employees
Categories RENS & NRENS The CENIC Community
Despite the impact of a global pandemic and the unique climate challenges in our state, this team has risen to a range of opportunities to further our mission by pursuing an upgraded network via the Next Generation Infrastructure initiative; assumed a range of responsibilities involving our support for the GoldenStateNet initiative; and, ensured Californian’s remained connected to each other and the world despite the challenges.
Transformed Infrastructure for Sustained Network Connections at SC22
Categories RENS & NRENS Pacific Wave Technology & Innovation
Each year, networking engineers from CENIC and its partners spend weeks devising critical infrastructure to enable a range of demonstration projects, dedicating nearly eighty percent of the effort to building the network infrastructure for the demonstrations, with the demonstrations themselves receiving twenty percent of the focus. That distribution of effort was forever shifted with a few innovative decisions resulting from the SC21 conference that retained the network infrastructure developed in support of dynamic, multi-domain path provisioning developed for the event. And those decisions are already having an impact on planning for SC22.
PRP: Fulfilling the Promise of Collapsing Space and Time
Categories University of California RENS & NRENS Pacific Wave
The Pacific Research Platform (PRP) was originally conceived in 2014 by member institutions of CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, as a way to support data-intensive research projects. The challenge was to connect multiple researchers located in multiple locations who require rapid access to dispersed datasets. It has become a significant force in developing an entirely new model of cyber-infrastructure ecology.
SC21 + CENIC
Categories RENS & NRENS Pacific Wave
As the SC21 conference launches both in St. Louis and virtually, CENIC’s network engineering team is hard at work preparing to help support a number of demonstration projects designed to show the power of global collaboration to fuel science and discovery.
CENIC Perspectives: Hybrid Approach to Last-Mile Connectivity Should Include Wireless
As we are entering a moment where decisions are being made about state and federal broadband resources, policymakers should focus on standards for what constitutes broadband rather than the specific technology chosen for last-mile infrastructure.
Progress Towards “Future-Proofing” CENIC’s Network
Categories RENS & NRENS CENIC Perspectives
In support of CENIC’s new spectrum service offering, engineers worked creatively to overcome obstacles posed by the ongoing pandemic including remote collaboration and supply chain slowdowns. The team successfully augmented the spectrum termination capabilities in Los Angeles and in Sunnyvale by 16 flexible grid capable ports, each with the capacity to terminate services between 100G and 800G. This new infrastructure is capable of supporting colorless, directionless, and contentionless (CDC) technologies, which are prerequisites for enabling software provisioning in the optical layer.
The Minds We Need: Federal Broadband Investment Should Include Research and Education Infrastructure
Categories RENS & NRENS Equity & Access CENIC Perspectives
Tags The Minds We Need
As the federal government considers a major investment in broadband, members of the research and education community, including CENIC, Internet2, The Quilt, and EDUCAUSE, came together this spring to support and publish The Minds We Need.
Life Inside CENIC: Sana Bellamine and Core Engineering
Categories RENS & NRENS The CENIC Community
Sana Bellamine works in Core Engineering, which is instrumental in connecting millions of Californians with reliable and forward-thinking solutions, from basic broadband to advanced services with experimental networks.
Virtual Excavations: Pacific Research Platform Enables Remote Collaboration on Underwater Archeological Dig in Israel
Categories University of California RENS & NRENS Pacific Wave
Supported by CENIC's 400-gigabit research network, the Pacific Research Platform has not only enabled researchers at UC San Diego and their partners at the University of Haifa in Israel to go ahead with their archeological dig despite the COVID-19 pandemic but also drastically accelerated data analysis times.
CENIC 2020 & 2021: Wrapping Up and Looking Ahead
Categories RENS & NRENS
We look back at CENIC's achievements in 2020 and look ahead to the goals we continue to pursue in 2021.