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News: Category Archives: RENS & NRENS
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.
SMCL and SFJAZZ “Rock With You” via CENIC’s CalREN
Categories Libraries RENS & NRENS
CENIC is proud to announce its participation in the Music of Michael Jackson, a live-streamed jazz concert of the award-winning SFJAZZ Collective on Saturday, October 24th. Visitors to the Peninsula Library System’s San Mateo County Library (SMCL) will have the opportunity to experience and participate the event thanks to the library’s lightning-fast expanded Gigabit network, which was provided to SMCL through CENIC’s CalREN, a high-capacity 3,800-mile fiber-optic-based network.
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.
CPUC Enters Phase 3 of California Teleconnect Fund Audit
Categories University of California K-12 Libraries RENS & NRENS
On July 23, 2015, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) adopted Decision 15-07-007 resolving Phase 1 and 2 issues regarding the California Teleconnect Fund (CTF) Audit. This decision adopts a variety of changes to all aspects of the program, which will impact all eligible entities.
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.
San Francisco Public Library, First 10 Gigabit Library in the U.S.
Categories Libraries RENS & NRENS
San Francisco Public Library, First 10 Gigabit Library in the U.S. – San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), and the City and County of San Francisco announced today that they have collaborated to provide unprecedented direct connection at 10 gigabits per second access speed to CENIC’s California Research and Education Network (CalREN) and from there to the world.
Path-breaking 100 Gigabit Connections Between Level 3 and CENIC Networks
Categories RENS & NRENS
Tags 100gigabit k12 libraries network
Path-breaking 100-Gigabit Connections Between Level 3 and CENIC Networks- CENIC has established links to Level 3's network in both San Jose and Los Angeles, Calif., delivering an unprecedented 200 gigabits per second of Internet capacity to California institutions. This upgrade complements the recent 100G backbone upgrades that CENIC had completed last year throughout California.
Australia-US partnership powers trans-Pacific science and research networking
Categories RENS & NRENS
Australia-US partnership powers trans-Pacific science and research networking
Internet2 Names Two K-20 Education Leaders as Winners of 2015 Richard Rose Award
Categories University of California K-12 RENS & NRENS
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2015—Internet2 today announced that Larry Gallery of NYSERNet and Rob Semper of the Exploratorium are this year’s winners of theRichard Rose Award. The award honors K-20 educators or technologists who have made demonstrable impacts on the K-20 community by extending advanced networking, content and services to the broader education community. Gallery and Semper will receive their awards tomorrow at the Internet2 Global Summit, taking place in Washington, D.C. April 26-30.
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