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My Experiences Supporting Indigenous Internet Bootstrapping Efforts
A great deal of Indian Country often lacks internet access, and often, connectivity solutions fall on the shoulders of Tribal community members. For the past two years, Tribal Broadband Bootcamps (TBB), co-founded by Matt Rantanen and Christopher Mitchell and now...
Five eye-catching Grafana visualizations used by Energy Sciences Network to monitor network data
ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) is a high-performance network backbone built to support scientific research. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and part of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides fast, reliable connections between national...
Front Range GigaPoP Moves the Needle on Routing Integrity: Boosting Member Participation in RPKI
Internet2 has a new blog series that spotlights R&E community members and organizations who are moving the needle on routing integrity by implementing best practices and capabilities – and supporting their constituents in doing the same. Among those organizations...
$34.6M investment at Arizona State University to help create reliable internet access, training for the region
Elected officials in Arizona have voted unanimously to provide Arizona State University (ASU) and its collaborators $34.6 million through 2026 to advance broadband, community support, equipment and training across the county, which includes the metro Phoenix area....
NCShare broadband initiative targeting STEM education lands NSF funding
Davidson College, Duke University and North Carolina Central University (NCCU), in collaboration with MCNC, today announced that the newly-created North Carolina Shared Research & Education collaborative infrastructure (NCShare) has received two National Science...
Georgia Tech to help expand research at HBCUs
Georgia Tech’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) was recently awarded a $995,550 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enable network and research enhancements for nearby historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The NSF grant will fund...
$10.5MM Federal Grant Awarded to MSU and Merit Network to Deliver Statewide Broadband Infrastructure
Project to create Michigan Open Optical Network – Leveraging Innovation to Get High-Speed Technology (MOON-Light) East Lansing, Mich., June 27, 2022 – Merit Network and Michigan State University are joint recipients of a $10.5 million National Telecommunications and...
UETN Board Appoints Spencer Jenkins as the new UETN CEO and Executive Director
The governing board of the Utah Education and Telehealth Network appointed Spencer Jenkins as the new UETN CEO and Executive Director. (SALT LAKE CITY) - Jenkins, who is Associate Commissioner of the Utah System of Higher Education, succeeds Dr. Ray Timothy who is...
The Quilt welcomes Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON)
SEATTLE, Wash. and BOISE, Idaho (June 20, 2022) – The Quilt, a consortium of regional Research and Education (R&E) Networks throughout the United States, today announced that the Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON) has become latest member organization to join...
Grant Award Expands Oklahoma’s Research Network to Additional Campuses
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) and OneNet a $942,263 Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) grant to connect additional campuses to the OneOklahoma Friction Free Network (OFFN). This marks the third...
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My Experiences Supporting Indigenous Internet Bootstrapping Efforts
A great deal of Indian Country often lacks internet access, and often, connectivity solutions fall on the shoulders of Tribal community members. For the past two years, Tribal Broadband Bootcamps (TBB), co-founded by Matt Rantanen and Christopher Mitchell and now...
Five eye-catching Grafana visualizations used by Energy Sciences Network to monitor network data
ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) is a high-performance network backbone built to support scientific research. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and part of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides fast, reliable connections between national...
Front Range GigaPoP Moves the Needle on Routing Integrity: Boosting Member Participation in RPKI
Internet2 has a new blog series that spotlights R&E community members and organizations who are moving the needle on routing integrity by implementing best practices and capabilities – and supporting their constituents in doing the same. Among those organizations...
$34.6M investment at Arizona State University to help create reliable internet access, training for the region
Elected officials in Arizona have voted unanimously to provide Arizona State University (ASU) and its collaborators $34.6 million through 2026 to advance broadband, community support, equipment and training across the county, which includes the metro Phoenix area....
NCShare broadband initiative targeting STEM education lands NSF funding
Davidson College, Duke University and North Carolina Central University (NCCU), in collaboration with MCNC, today announced that the newly-created North Carolina Shared Research & Education collaborative infrastructure (NCShare) has received two National Science...
Georgia Tech to help expand research at HBCUs
Georgia Tech’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) was recently awarded a $995,550 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enable network and research enhancements for nearby historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The NSF grant will fund...
$10.5MM Federal Grant Awarded to MSU and Merit Network to Deliver Statewide Broadband Infrastructure
Project to create Michigan Open Optical Network – Leveraging Innovation to Get High-Speed Technology (MOON-Light) East Lansing, Mich., June 27, 2022 – Merit Network and Michigan State University are joint recipients of a $10.5 million National Telecommunications and...
UETN Board Appoints Spencer Jenkins as the new UETN CEO and Executive Director
The governing board of the Utah Education and Telehealth Network appointed Spencer Jenkins as the new UETN CEO and Executive Director. (SALT LAKE CITY) - Jenkins, who is Associate Commissioner of the Utah System of Higher Education, succeeds Dr. Ray Timothy who is...
The Quilt welcomes Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON)
SEATTLE, Wash. and BOISE, Idaho (June 20, 2022) – The Quilt, a consortium of regional Research and Education (R&E) Networks throughout the United States, today announced that the Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON) has become latest member organization to join...
Grant Award Expands Oklahoma’s Research Network to Additional Campuses
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) and OneNet a $942,263 Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) grant to connect additional campuses to the OneOklahoma Friction Free Network (OFFN). This marks the third...