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Based on The Quilt participants' combined experiences in operations and development of leading-edge technologies, The Quilt aims to influence the national agenda on information technology infrastructure, with particular emphasis on networking for research and education. Through this coalition, The Quilt promotes delivery of networking services at lower cost, higher performance and greater reliability and security.

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It isn’t easy to prepare for an event as destructive as Hurricane Sandy, but one Quilt member played a significant role in helping local, state and federal governments stay connected before, during and after the natural disaster rocked New Jersey last year.

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Two Great Conferences This Week

I’m looking forward to attending two great conferences this week. The first is the BCNET conference, which takes place April 30 through May 1st in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the conference, I will have the opportunity to connect again with our Canadian R&E colleagues after their recent attendance of our Quilt Winter Member Meeting in La Jolla, Calif. While at the BCNET conference, I’ll be participating in a panel on U.S. R&E networks

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Quilt OpenFlow Switch Webinar Series Continues May 21st with Brocade

 

This webinar with Authorized Quilt Provider, Brocade, will be held on Tuesday, May 21st from 4:00-5:00 pm ET. If you plan on participating, please RSVP to me with your name and the name of your institution/organization at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by Thursday, May 16th.

 


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Registration for he 2013 Summer Networking CEO Round Table Meeting in Nashville, TN is open!


We look forward to seeing you this summer in Nashville, TN for the In-Person Networking CEO Round Table Meeting. The meeting logistics, registration information can be found here

 

 

 

 


Quilt Member News

 

KINBER Completes Construction of Statewide Broadband Network

 

STATE COLLEGE (April 18, 2013) – The Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research (KINBER), the non-profit membership organization comprised of education, healthcare and public media organizations devoted to fostering collaboration through technology, announced today that Bucks County-based Sunesys, LCC completed the construction of KINBER’s Pennsylvania Research and Education Network (PennREN).

 

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I-Light/Indiana GigaPOP's Annual Members Meeting

 

I-Light/Indiana GigaPOP's annual members meeting is June 19th and 20th and will be held in Bloomington, IN in the Cyberinfrastructure Infrastructure building.

 

http://ilight.net/conference2013

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Great Plains Network Annual Meeting 2013
Kansas City MO, May 29 - 31 2013
Submissions due Friday, April 19, 2013
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Conference Theme: Big Data: From Bits and Bytes to Knowledge and Insights

 

GPN Annual Conference Submission Request

 

Overview: Faculty, librarians, technical staff, graduate and undergraduate students are invited to submit posters, oral presentations, panels, and birds-of-a-feather sessions. This year's theme is Big Data and we invite presentations on any aspect of cyberinfrastructure including but not limited to networking, high performance computing, data movement, data management, archiving and curation, and research data lifecycle management.