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Announcing Robert Nordmark as AREON Executive Director
Wednesday, June 5, 2019: AREON is pleased to announce the appointment of its next Executive Director, Robert Nordmark. Robert has extensive experience with research and education networks like AREON, having been the director of network services and more recently the...
Indiana University awarded 10-year, $40M contract to manage NOAA’s N-Wave network
GlobalNOC to continue as contractor for N-Wave, which transports weather forecasting, severe storm modeling, climate and ocean data BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University has signed a new 10-year, $40 million contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
N-Wave Stakeholders and Science Engagement Summit
Save-the-date for the 2019 N-Wave Stakeholders and Science Engagement Summit. This three-day event is a gathering of NOAA leaders, campus technology coordinators, data producers, data managers, information security officers, network engineers, researchers, scientists,...
Quilt Hosts NSF CC* EPOC Grant Webinar
In 2018, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), a joint project between Indiana University and ESnet, to work with domain scientists across the U.S. to accelerate the adoption of and experience in using...
Cisco Expands 400G and 600G Trials with CENIC
La Mirada, CA & Berkeley, CA — March 20, 2019 — The Cisco NCS 1004 has been in numerous trials since December of 2018 demonstrating multi-haul transmission. The platform offers the flexibility to optimize for higher wavelength capacity or for fiber efficiency to...
WINS: SC19 Call for Participation, Deadline 4/1/19
Announcement: The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program is now accepting applications for the 2019 program. Since 2015, the WINS program has provided an immersive “hands-on” mentorship opportunity for early- to mid-career women in the IT field who are selected...
MORe-OFFN Facilitates Ground-Breaking Research at Regional Universities
By April Goode Wednesday, March 7th, 2018 A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant is helping connect four new institutions into Oklahoma’s current dedicated research network. Providing regional universities with connections to Oklahoma’s Friction Free Network (OFFN)...
MCNC ushers in new era of leadership with governor appointees
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (Feb. 28, 2019) - MCNC, the non-profit operator of the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), today announced that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed two community leaders to the MCNC Board of Directors and that...
CENIC – Collaboration Kept Pepperdine Connected During Wildfires
As the Woolsey wildfire surrounded Pepperdine University in Malibu, the campus’s primary internet connections burned. “A lot of lines went down,” said Pepperdine Information Technology Director Rita Schnepp. “Although our routing protocols automatically redirected...
The Quilt supports National High School Cyber Challenge
The Quilt, a consortium of regional Research and Education (R&E) Networks throughout the United States, is pleased to announce a joint effort with Merit Network in Michigan to help develop the next generation of cybersecurity talent through the National High...
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Announcing Robert Nordmark as AREON Executive Director
Wednesday, June 5, 2019: AREON is pleased to announce the appointment of its next Executive Director, Robert Nordmark. Robert has extensive experience with research and education networks like AREON, having been the director of network services and more recently the...
Indiana University awarded 10-year, $40M contract to manage NOAA’s N-Wave network
GlobalNOC to continue as contractor for N-Wave, which transports weather forecasting, severe storm modeling, climate and ocean data BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University has signed a new 10-year, $40 million contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
N-Wave Stakeholders and Science Engagement Summit
Save-the-date for the 2019 N-Wave Stakeholders and Science Engagement Summit. This three-day event is a gathering of NOAA leaders, campus technology coordinators, data producers, data managers, information security officers, network engineers, researchers, scientists,...
Quilt Hosts NSF CC* EPOC Grant Webinar
In 2018, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), a joint project between Indiana University and ESnet, to work with domain scientists across the U.S. to accelerate the adoption of and experience in using...
Cisco Expands 400G and 600G Trials with CENIC
La Mirada, CA & Berkeley, CA — March 20, 2019 — The Cisco NCS 1004 has been in numerous trials since December of 2018 demonstrating multi-haul transmission. The platform offers the flexibility to optimize for higher wavelength capacity or for fiber efficiency to...
WINS: SC19 Call for Participation, Deadline 4/1/19
Announcement: The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program is now accepting applications for the 2019 program. Since 2015, the WINS program has provided an immersive “hands-on” mentorship opportunity for early- to mid-career women in the IT field who are selected...
MORe-OFFN Facilitates Ground-Breaking Research at Regional Universities
By April Goode Wednesday, March 7th, 2018 A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant is helping connect four new institutions into Oklahoma’s current dedicated research network. Providing regional universities with connections to Oklahoma’s Friction Free Network (OFFN)...
MCNC ushers in new era of leadership with governor appointees
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (Feb. 28, 2019) - MCNC, the non-profit operator of the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), today announced that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed two community leaders to the MCNC Board of Directors and that...
CENIC – Collaboration Kept Pepperdine Connected During Wildfires
As the Woolsey wildfire surrounded Pepperdine University in Malibu, the campus’s primary internet connections burned. “A lot of lines went down,” said Pepperdine Information Technology Director Rita Schnepp. “Although our routing protocols automatically redirected...
The Quilt supports National High School Cyber Challenge
The Quilt, a consortium of regional Research and Education (R&E) Networks throughout the United States, is pleased to announce a joint effort with Merit Network in Michigan to help develop the next generation of cybersecurity talent through the National High...