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GeoLinks Recognized with CENIC Corporate Partnership Award

CENIC is recognizing GeoLinks for their understanding of the importance of high-speed broadband for California research and education communities, and their strategy for reaching those with limited or no access to broadband due remote locations and challenging terrain using fixed wireless technology.

David Lassner of University of Hawai’i Recognized for Distinguished Service

CENIC's inaugural Christine Haska Award for Distinguished Service recognizes David Lassner, UH President, for his lifelong commitment to science, the environment, and communities in the Pacific Islands, and his achievements in securing R&E broadband connectivity.

Broadband Infrastructure Improvement Grants for K-12 Schools Recognized with CENIC Innovations Award

Categories K-12

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.

UC ANR Project to Extend Broadband to Rural Researchers Recognized with CENIC Innovations Award

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).

Cal State’s CMS Data Center Transformation Recognized with CENIC Innovation Award

Categories CSU Libraries

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.

CENIC Board of Directors Elects New Officers

Categories RENS & NRENS

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) is pleased to announce the election of five board members to its executive committee.

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.

NSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform-UC San Diego, UC Berkeley lead creation of West

NSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform- UC San Diego, UC Berkeley lead creation of West Coast big data freeway system.

Path-breaking 100 Gigabit Connections Between Level 3 and CENIC Networks

Categories RENS & NRENS

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.