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News: Category Archives: Press Release
CENIC Extends Fiber Lease Until 2040
Categories Private Sector RENS & NRENS Press Release
CENIC has secured leases, called Indefeasible Rights of Use (IRUs), with Level 3 Communications on more than 8,000 miles of dark fiber until 2040.
Naval Postgraduate School Joins the CENIC Community as a Charter Associate
Categories Independent Universities Press Release
The CENIC Board of Directors announced today that the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is now recognized as a CENIC Charter Associate. Charter Associates comprise the CENIC Board of Directors and set policy and guide the organization, as well as have full access to CENIC’s entire portfolio of networks and services.
Los Angeles Connects to 100 Gbps Education Network
Categories RENS & NRENS Press Release
Los Angeles leaders say they hope to encourage other cities to do as they have and join the infrastructure connecting California's education and research worlds.
Pacific Wave Announces World’s First Trans-Pacific 100-Gigabit R&E Network
Categories RENS & NRENS Press Release
Pacific Wave is pleased to announce that the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) has established the world’s first 100-Gigabit per second (Gbps) research and education (R&E) network link between Asia and the U.S., with related transit, peering, and exchange fabric. Pacific Wave will provide this 100Gbps capability to the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded International Research Network Connections (IRNC) TransPAC4 project, led by Indiana University. Pacific Wave recently received a five-year NSF IRNC award to serve as the U.S. Pacific Rim’s open and distributed interconnection, peering, and exchange fabric, including Software-Defined Exchange (SDX), Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and research DMZ capabilities.
CENIC Awarded International Networking Grant from NSF
Categories RENS & NRENS Press Release
CENIC announced today that it, along with the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP), has been awarded a grant of nearly $3.5M from the National Science Foundation’s International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program.
NSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform-UC San Diego, UC Berkeley lead creation of West
Categories Cultural & Scientific RENS & NRENS Press Release
NSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform- UC San Diego, UC Berkeley lead creation of West Coast big data freeway system.
Innovations in Public Libraries: The California Library Broadband Initiative
Categories Libraries Press Release
Tags digital divide libraries
With the California State Library, CENIC, and Califa’s Library Initiative underway, the timeliness and relevance of an examination of broadband in the state’s public libraries couldn’t be better. In this Monday session, a great perspective on where things stand now, where they are headed, and how California will get there was provided by Tom Fortin (San Mateo County Library), Derek Wolrfgram (Redwood City Public Library), and Cliff Frost (CENIC).
Science DMZ as a Security Architecture
Categories RENS & NRENS Security Press Release
Tags esnet science dmz security
ESnet's Mike Sinatra looks at how Science DMZ can solve -- and can't solve -- problems relating to network security
High-Performance Big-Science Pacific Research Platform Debuts at CENIC 2015 Annual Conference
Categories University of California RENS & NRENS Press Release
Tags esnet pacific wave
High-Performance Big-Science Pacific Research Platform Debuts at CENIC 2015 Annual Conference
100-Gigabit Upgrade for CENIC’s California Research & Education Network
Categories RENS & NRENS Press Release
Tags 100gigabit calren layer2
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced the completion of a 100-Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) upgrade for the core backbone of the California Research & Education Network (CalREN), the 3,800-mile fiber-based advanced network currently serving the Golden State’s research and education communities, including the California K-12 System, California’s Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, and many private universities including Caltech, Stanford, and USC, as well as a rapidly growing list of other institutions.