OSHEAN, The Quilt's member in Rhode Island, along with many other regional research and education (R&E) networks, is using Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grants to improve infrastructure for the institutions they currently serve and extend these...

Organized by the Internet Society, World IPv6 Day was held on June 8, 2011 and included nearly 400 participating organizations which enabled IPv6 on their main services for 24 hours. By providing a coordinated 24-hour "test flight", the event helped demonstrate that...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.—June 23, 2011 MCNC announced today that the video services infrastructure on the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is scheduled to be upgraded on July 1. MCNC has entered the final testing phases of Cisco TelePresence...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Merit Network Inc. announced today that it will host the Internet2 IPv6 workshop, a special learning opportunity for network professionals. The two-day workshop is provided through Merit's Professional Learning program and will take place on August...

June 23, 2011 What are the best practices and tools for incident response? And what about DNSSEC? With engineers and security officers from member institutions increasingly concerned over threats to their networks, and even universities with dedicated network security...

Com Net, Inc., Horizon Telcom and OneCommunity, collectively awarded a total of $141.3 million in federal stimulus funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, have received the go-ahead to break ground on their projects. The awarded projects will add...

20+ BTOP Grants for Quilt Community Quilt participants or their members were involved in 20 successful funding grants under the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) over the past year or two. And many more BTOP grants received funding thanks to technical...

Pittsburgh—April 15, 2011 Over a hundred guests, including students, representatives of government and industry, joined the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) staff today at PSC's 25th anniversary observance and Discover 11 Open House. Also present were...

New Brochures Available The Quilt has developed two new brochures as resources for its members: “Doing Business with a Regional Network in Your Neighborhood,” outlines for community anchor institutions the many common characteristics shared by regional R&E...

Archive "The Obama Effect" Chronicle on Higher Education, Wired Edition—An article about Jen Leasure's presentation at the Internet2 2009 Spring Meeting—April 30, 2009 The Quilt Announces Jen Leasure as The Organization's First President and CEO—February 1, 2009 "20+...