Apr 22, 2013

California Telehealth Network and CENIC Renew Agreement and Partnership

California Telehealth Network (CTN), the state’s partnership for telehealth and the Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) have renewed their agreement to provide CTN member sites with Internet access through CENIC’s secure gateway connection.

As a result of this partnership, CTN member sites also enjoy secure connectivity with CENIC member sites, which include the California K-12 system, all 112 campuses of California's Community Colleges, all 23 campuses of the California State University, all 10 campuses of the University of California, and prestigious private universities including Caltech, USC, Stanford, and others. Through CENIC, CTN member sites also receive secure connectivity to national medical and educational research platforms such as Internet2 and National LambdaRail.

CTN is California’s leading agency focusing on increasing access to healthcare through the innovative use of broadband and health information technology which includes the use of telehealth and telemedicine with a focus on rural and medically underserved Californians.

“CTN’s partnership with CENIC has been critical to our success in establishing a secure, reliable, high performance broadband infrastructure for our healthcare providers,” said CTN President and CEO, Eric Brown. “As CTN continues to expand our use of additional broadband providers and technologies here in California, the core CENIC backbone and networking expertise will continue to be one of our most valuable assets.”

CENIC is a non-profit corporation created in 1996 by California’s research and education community in order to obtain cost-effective, high-bandwidth networking to support their missions and respond to the needs of their faculty, staff, and students.

"We're delighted to renew this vital relationship with the California Teleheath Network," said CENIC President and CEO, Louis Fox. "A partnership between our organizations is the most natural thing in the world, given the scope of CENIC's reach throughout California, and the CENIC network's reach to all of the state's academic medical centers. Ensuring that advanced broadband networking reaches every corner of the state, including less well-served remote and rural communities, is also a key area of overlap between our two organizations," Fox added, "as well as facilitating innovative collaborations between healthcare organizations and the state's research and education communities."

CENIC designs, implements, and operates CalREN, the California Research and Education Network, a high-bandwidth, high-capacity Internet network specially designed to meet the unique requirements of these communities. CalREN consists of a 3,800-mile fiber-optic CENIC-operated backbone to which these and other institutions in all 58 of California's counties connect via leased circuits obtained from telecom carriers or via CENIC owned fiber-optic cable.

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