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The CENIC newsletter updates our community on the latest blog posts, press releases, initiative updates, events, and other news, as well as announcements about the CalREN network, its maintenance, and improvements.
2023
December 2023
Register today for the CENIC conference!
CENIC News
- Doing More with Less: Balancing Network Energy Budgets through Spectrum Services
- Connecting Last-Mile Customers at 100 Gbps with High-Launch-Power Coherent Pluggable Optics
- From the Ground to the Stars: Critical Big-Data Research in Africa
- Erik Hunsinger Appointed President & Chief Operating Officer of GoldenStateNet
- Don't Forget to Protect Your Pre-ARIN Legacy IP Addresses with a Legacy Registration Services Agreement
Community News
- CSU multi-campus consortiums elevate learning and hands-on experience
- Researchers Test Seafloor Fiber Optic Cable as an Earthquake Early Warning System
- Newsom signs bill creating transfer pilot program between UC and community colleges
- Education Safety Summit Tackles Cybersecurity, Social Media
- A breakthrough for ultra-high-resolution brain imaging
- California Community Colleges Expand Access to Bachelor's Degrees with Two New Programs
- Berkeley Space Center at NASA Ames to become innovation hub for new aviation, space technology
Broadband & Digital Equity News, & Funding Opportunities
- The draft Digital Equity Plan is open for public comment until January 25, 2024, add your voice today.
- California MMBI Request for Innovative Ideas Open
- Could the feds withhold broadband funding to some states?
- The ACP Helps Millions Afford Internet. It Could Be Gone by Next Year.
- The first UbuntuNet Alliance Women Hackathon
- National Broadband Mapping Coalition – December 19th Call
Awards, Events, & Program Opportunities
October 2023
SAVE THE DATE for the CENIC 2024 Annual Conference: March 25-27, 2024 at Hyatt Regency Monterey
CENIC News
- CENIC Completes First Backbone Upgrade Allowing Native 400 Gbps Handoffs to CalREN
- Product Testing and Validation Testbeds as a Service over Middle-Mile Infrastructure
- CA Broadband, Energy, and the Environment Series: Broadband-enabled Energy Innovations for Anchor Institutions (PDF)
- Don't Forget to Protect Your Pre-ARIN Legacy IP Addresses with a Legacy Registration Services Agreement
Community News
- 8 Important Generative AI Use Cases in the Classroom
- Seismologists use deep learning to forecast earthquakes
- California Community Colleges Expanding Access to College Credit
- Celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month Online at CSU
- Why California’s Public Universities Are So Good
- Robust, Resilient, Flexible: Internet2 Announces Large Platform Flex
- eduroam in Africa: a Guidebook
Broadband & Digital Equity News, & Funding Opportunities
- Hoopa Valley Tribe, California partner on first-ever broadband co-build, signaling a potential paradigm shift
- How California Is Bridging the Digital Divide on Tribal Land
- Principles for Digital Equity Vision: Recommendations from the Benton Institute
- Shaping the Future of Digital Equity: Communicating Your Feedback to the NTIA
- Tarana's Gigabit FWA ambitions backed by $50M funding round
- Did Pandemic Aid Narrow the Digital Divide?
- Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation Annual Report Available
Awards, Events, & Program Opportunities
August 2023
SAVE THE DATE: CENIC 2024 Annual Conference: March 25-27, 2024 at Hyatt Regency Monterey
CENIC News
- RouteViews on Pacific Wave Improves Network Operations for International Research and Education
- CENIC's Role in the "Broadband for All" Initiative
- The CA Middle Mile Broadband Initiative and CENIC: Creating a Bespoke Organization to Serve California
- CA Broadband, Energy, and the Environment Series: the first installment in a new series
- Wireless on the Edge: Connecting Hard-to-Serve Areas
Community News
- Caltech Study Shows How Fiber Optic Cables Detect and Characterize Earthquakes
- A bridge across time and space: a virtual reality atelier of one of Renaissance Italy's most accomplished women
- New program partnering with UC med schools looks to turn community college students into doctors
- UC Merced study boosts novel idea for solar panels over water canals
- CSU CREATE Awards Support Equity-Minded Faculty Proposals Advancing Student Success
- Unveiling the Future with California’s New Digital Strategy
- Exploratorium launches new Eclipse website ahead of total solar eclipse in April 2024
Broadband & Digital Equity News
- Biden-Harris Administration Announces State Allocations for $42.45 Billion High-Speed Internet Grant Program
- NTIA releases final version of BEAD challenge process guidance and model policy
- NTIA announces second round of funding for Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, up to $980 million available
- New California Law Makes It Possible For Foster Youth To Attend College For Free
- California Department of Technology Secures $73 Million Grant for Middle-Mile Broadband Initiative
- Senators introduce bipartisan bill to expand “last acre” broadband connectivity across farmlands
- The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) can help with the high cost of home Internet. Apply here.
- Universal Service Fund (USF) Working Group Request for Comment -- Have your voice heard. Respond here by August 25th
Awards, Events, & Program Opportunities News
June 2023
CENIC News
- California’s Landmark “Internet for All Initiative” featuring CENIC’s Key Role Launches Marconi Society Webinar Series
- Global Big-Data Collaboration Gets Easier with Two New 100 Gbps Connections to CENIC and Pacific Wave for ESnet
- Responding to disasters: the CENIC community’s role in response and recovery
- More Reasons to Protect Your Pre-ARIN Legacy IP Addresses with a Legacy Registration Services Agreement
Community News
- World’s first standard cladding diameter 19-core optical fiber with record transmission capacity
- UC Berkeley spreads the gospel of data science with new college, free curriculum
- When the Rains Come: See how CSU faculty and students are studying ways to capture stormwater and strengthen drought resilience
- Behind E-Books, Libraries Balance Restrictions and High Costs
- Seven New Bachelor’s Degrees to be Offered at California Community Colleges
- California Ramps Up Commitment to Clean Energy With Historic Offshore Wind Sale
Broadband & Digital Equity News
- California Launches New Statewide Survey to Inform How Millions Will be Spent in the Years Ahead to Achieve Broadband for All
- Significant progress reported on middle-mile network at April MMAC meeting
- Biden-Harris Administration Announces Internet for All Grants to Tribal Lands Including 9 CA Tribes
- FCC Releases Second Version of National Broadband Map with 330,000 More Unserved Locations
- FCC Broadband Funding Map Released
- People-Centered Internet Launches Puerto Rico Prosperity Initiative
- Updated BEAD State Allocations Estimates: How Much Money Will Your State Get?
Awards, Events, & Program Opportunities
- FCC Announces Final End Date and Deadlines for Emergency Connectivity Fund Program
- The Fiber Connect 2023 Agenda is Now Available! Get Registered Today!
- California State Library announces $175 million in addition facilities improvement grants for local libraries
- Register and Book Housing for SC23 in Denver, CO: Nov 12-17
- Register Today for the International Data Mover Challenge
- 2023 Internet2 Technology Exchange, Minneapolis, MN: Sep 18-22
- The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) can help with the high cost of home Internet
April 2023
CENIC News:
- CENIC in 2022: A Groundbreaking Year for CENIC and California
- CENIC Infrastructure Supports Optical Demonstrations at OFCnet in San Diego
- CENIC Validates Coherent Pluggables with Integrated Amplifier over Production Network
- Engaging the Minds We Need
- Learn How Middle-Mile Networks Are Part of the Internet Ecosystem
- Get Your Cybersecurity Program Up and Running with the Trusted CI Framework
Community News:
- Eduroam Reaches New Record of 6.4 Billion Authentications in 2022
- Caltech and the City of Pasadena Team Up to Build Seismic Sensing Network
- UCSD's new astrobiotechnology hub is set to explore the future of drug discovery
- The Fast-Track to Cloud Computing and Higher Salaries: Bay Area Community Colleges Collaborate to Fill Growing Industry Demand
- CSU Expands Access to a College Degree with New Transfer Success Pathway
Broadband & Digital Equity News
- Participate in a State Digital Equity Summit Planning Workshop near you and help your community get online!
- State Makes Cost-effective Progress on Middle-Mile Broadband Initiative
- Congressional Action Needed to Boost Efforts to Expand Broadband Access
- California Approved to Use Entire Capital Projects Fund Budget for Broadband
- Realizing Ambitions of Open Access in Marin County, California
- NTIA, FCC Close in on Broadband Map Data for State BEAD Allocations
Awards, Events, & Program Opportunities
- The Quilt recognizes Wendy Huntoon with Dave Reese Distinguished Service Award
- 2023 Internet2 Community Exchange: May 8-11, 2023 in Atlanta, GA
- Cloud Forum 23 Registration Opens: May 10-12, 2023 in Atlanta, GA
- Merit Member Conference Call for Presentations: May 16-17, 2023 in Dearborn, MI
- California State Library announces $175 million in addition facilities improvement grants for local libraries
- The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) can help with the high cost of home Internet
February 2023
- Minding Our MANRS: CENIC and Global Internet Routing Security
- Solving Network Connections for USC on Catalina Island
- More from the California Middle-Mile Network Series
- Rich Fagen and Networks: from Big Science to High Culture
- 12 incredible UC research breakthroughs in 2022
- The wait for rural broadband in Sonoma County may not be much longer
- Community Colleges’ Positive, Pervasive Digital Leap
- State of the States 2023: Governors Going Deep on Broadband
- The 2023-24 California Budget: Higher Education Overview
- OFC Conference & Exhibition: March 5-9, 2023 in San Diego, CA
- 2023 Internet2 Community Exchange: May 8-11, 2023 in Atlanta, GA
- Cloud Forum 23 Registration Opens: May 10-12, 2023 in Atlanta, GA
- Merit Member Conference Call for Presentations: May 16-17, 2023 in Dearborn, MI