CENIC has completed a major step forward toward a more efficiently managed and automated high-capacity backbone and greatly improved its service provisioning and network maintenance response and diagnosis.
CENIC has built a new and diverse fiber path between Sacramento and northern California, adding to its inland route. The new path creates a diverse 260-mile regional loop from Sacramento and back, traveling through Colusa, Corning, Palo Cedro, and Chico. The path has 3.2 terabits per second of capacity and includes new nodes in Chico and Palo Cedro.
For their decade-long partnership with CENIC to deliver broadband connectivity to California’s public K-12 schools and libraries at the lowest possible cost, CSM Consulting is being recognized with CENIC’s 2020 Innovations in Networking Award for Corporate Partner.
CENIC has selected the California Community Colleges as a recipient of the 2020 Innovations in Networking Award for Educational Applications in recognition of its online student services portal, CCC MyPath, which helps millions of students seamlessly navigate through their educational journeys.
CENIC is recognizing Internet2 for the growing, innovative collaboration between the two organizations on numerous projects to renew, enrich, and extend the advanced research and education (R&E) network ecology, nationally and internationally.
The project to connect UCSC’s Hyades Supercomputer Cluster with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is being awarded the CENIC 2018 Innovations Award for Research Applications for its facilitation of astronomy research and data sharing.
CENIC seeks to honor early members of the board of directors, CENIC employees, and designers of the original CalREN network for their crucial contributions to CENIC in its formative years.
As a result of the BIIG project, California's most remote public K-12 schools are overcoming barriers to Internet access and being connected to the world-class California Research and Education Network (CalREN), the high-performance broadband network operated by CENIC.
The University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) is being recognized for its work to extend high-speed broadband to UC researchers in rural communities across the state by connecting UC ANR sites to the California Research and Education Network (CalREN).
This award recognizes the significant effort required to bring the CMS data center from Salt Lake City to its current state-of-the-art facility in Silicon Valley, thereby enabling CSU to use a hybrid cloud platform. Project leader George Mansoor will accept the award on behalf of the numerous CSU staff who contributed to this project.