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Blog: Category Archives: RENS & NRENS
Internet Exchange Points: An Essential Infrastructure for Rural Broadband Initiatives
Categories RENS & NRENS Equity & Access
IXPs are one of the building blocks around which the Internet is built. They are the physical locations where networks come together, and where content providers place content closer to end users to increase the speed and efficiency of networks. Currently, there are dozens of IXPs nationwide but most of them are concentrated in big cities. Increasing the number of IXPs across California will result in a more resilient, competitive, and interconnected Internet (especially for households in more rural areas).
California Cultural Institutions Increase Online Initiatives During COVID Pandemic
Categories Cultural & Scientific RENS & NRENS
CENIC’s member cultural institutions have launched innovative digital initiatives to reach people at home during the pandemic, providing valuable resources for the research and education community and beyond.
In a Time of Pandemic, Members Share Insight on the Power of Research and Education Networks
Categories RENS & NRENS
Tags american library association internet2 irvine unified school district mid-atlantic crossroads pacific northwest gigapop stanford university the getty UC Health university of california
We asked some of our members to share how they have adapted their work and continued to fulfill their academic and service missions during the recent stay-at-home orders. We learned that while members’ use of the networks has changed, everyone we heard from said the value of R&E networks like CENIC and Internet2 continues to be realized through the human networks with which they connect; affordable, reliable, and scalable infrastructure, services, and support; public access to digital resources; and advanced networking tools to enable critical scientific research.
CENIC Perspectives : What Home Broadband Requirements are Necessary for Students (and Families) During COVID-19 and Beyond?
Categories RENS & NRENS Equity & Access CENIC Perspectives
Tags broadband calren digital divide digital divide human rights people-centered internet equity and access research and education
In this report, CENIC President and CEO Louis Fox discusses broadband requirements and policy considerations to achieve gigabit access for all Californians.
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.
PRP Boosts Inter-Campus Collaboration on Brain Research
Categories University of California Healthcare RENS & NRENS
Tags cenic internet2 machine learning national science foundation network pacific northwest gigapop pacific research platform pnwgp prp research ucsc ucsf washu
Neuroscience researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz, University of California San Francisco, and Washington University in St. Louis use the cloud-scale Pacific Research Platform and National Research Platform to share and compute massive open-source datasets, accelerating experiment times from weeks to mere hours.
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.
The Growing Contributions of Women in Computer Networking
Categories RENS & NRENS
CENIC community members offer several programs for underrepresented populations to network, gain unique training, and participate in professional development opportunities — and many efforts are producing positive results.
Big Data: How the PRP Enables Scientists to Unlock Genetic Secrets
Categories Cultural & Scientific Healthcare RENS & NRENS Pacific Wave
With innovative networking tools available on the Pacific Research Platform, Professor Alex Feltus at Clemson University in South Carolina analyzes massive genomics datasets to better understand how genes interact to cause disease in humans. His dream is for everyone to have access to the PRP, which would drastically accelerate scientific discovery.
Network Engineers Collaborate in MANRS RPKI Deployment
Categories RENS & NRENS Pacific Wave
At a workshop in October, network engineers from CENIC member institutions engaged in technical, hands-on labs and now have the ability to assess their own environments for implementing guidelines for Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) and Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) technology. Another workshop will be held in March. Learn how your organization can get involved.