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Blog: Category Archives: Technology & Innovation
Product Testing and Validation Testbeds as a Service over Middle-Mile Infrastructure
Tags middle-mile mmbi
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.
CA Broadband, Energy, and the Environment Series: the first installment in a new series
Categories RENS & NRENS GOLDENSTATENET Technology & Innovation
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.
Get Your Cybersecurity Program Up and Running with the Trusted CI Framework
Learn about the Trusted CI Framework, developed by the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and created to help your scientific research facility overcome the obstacles to standing up a cybersecurity program for its cyberinfrastructure.
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?
Minding Our MANRS: CENIC and Global Internet Routing Security
Categories RENS & NRENS Security Technology & Innovation
Learn about CENIC’s participation in the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, which ensures a more secure Internet that is less likely to experience network routing issues and distributed denial of service attacks.
Rich Fagen and Networks: from Big Science to High Culture
Rich Fagen, until very recently the Chief Digital Officer at the J. Paul Getty Trust or the Getty, was among the creative founders who helped form CENIC in the 1990s. Now on the occasion of his retirement, his career can be regarded as the perfect reflection of the way high-performance networking – initially created to support data-driven big science – has become just as vital for data-driven arts and culture.
Next Generation Infrastructure, Boosted by MPLS, Delivers Results
Categories RENS & NRENS Technology & Innovation
As CENIC continues the march forward in its upgrade of the CalREN backbone, an important feature of this work has been the migration of member and Associates’ services to Multi-Protocol Label Switching or MPLS with segment routing. Already, CENIC’s engineering teams are closing in on migrating 50 percent of members to MPLS, an exciting achievement that enables a range of new features.
The Future of Network Automation at CENIC
Categories Technology & Innovation
Tags automation
The Future of Network Automation at CENIC: the CENIC Network Operations Center implemented a hotly anticipated enhancement to its customer service functions: targeted network announcements. With this new enhancement, authorized contacts at connected sites throughout California will receive tailored email announcements should a planned or unplanned outage specifically impact their service. More information about the new targeted network announcements can be found at cenic.org.
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.