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CENIC Extends Fiber Lease Until 2040

CENIC Extends Fiber Lease Until 2040

Tags calren level3

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.

Stuart Lynn Awarded the 2017 CENIC Founders Award

Categories RENS & NRENS

Stuart Lynn, who led the creation of CENIC — now among the world’s most heavily used research and education networks — has been selected by CENIC as a recipient of the 2017 Founders Award.

City of Los Angeles to tap into CENIC'S CalREN, California's High-Speed Research Internet Backbone

As the first large city government to join CENIC, California’s ultra-fast 100Gbps research and education network, Los Angeles will build stronger digital connections to California's innovators, researchers, educators, and students.

Path-Breaking 100Gb Connection Between Orange County Department of Education and CENIC Networks

Categories K-12 RENS & NRENS

Path-Breaking 100Gb Connection Between Orange County Department of Education and CENIC Networks CENIC is pleased to announce that CENIC, with its partners – the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE), the K12 High Speed Network (K12HSN), and the California Department of Education (CDE) – has established the world’s first 100-Gigabit per second K12 connection. The network connection went into production on March 24th, 2016.

CENIC and ESnet Announce Joint Cybersecurity Initiative

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) are pleased to announce a partnership between their organizations in the area of cybersecurity. The defense of information systems and networks is a necessary function of all modern enterprises, but scientific research organizations face particular challenges: support of open science and, increasingly, big-data science; diverse research portfolios; openness to experimentation across all intellectual domains; openness to collaborations within and across institutions – regionally, nationally, and internationally; and the need for seamless access to remote data-sources, scientific tools, and computational resources. The ESnet and CENIC communities share these challenges and are committed to improving the cybersecurity capacity of both organizations so that research is both open and secure.

Science DMZ Infrastructure Architecture Accelerates Data Flows

Networking teams are deploying an infrastructure architecture known as the Science DMZ to help researchers make productive use of ever-increasing data flows.

100-Gigabit Upgrade for CENIC’s California Research & Education Network

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.