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The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) administers and supports the CalREN network, which UCI depends on for our connection to the commodity Internet and Project Abilene, the nation-wide Internet2 network. CENIC has selected NACS to host their disaster/recovery backup network operations center (NOC). NACS will provide space for CENIC staff and equipment, [...]
Faculty sometimes ask “When will I get access to Internet2?” or “How can I use Internet2?”
UCI has been benefiting from connection to Internet2 since last spring when UCI connected to CENIC’s new backbone network. You access Internet2 automatically, whenever it makes sense.
UCI’s Internet Service Provider, CENIC, manages the California Research and Education Network, CalREN. CalREN [...]
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) has been building a new regional network which will assume the name of the earlier California Research and Education Network (CalREN). CalREN will provide gigabit connectivity to all UC campuses, the Cal State system, and some private universities. Ultimately, CENIC will include (at more mainstream data [...]
There are several key regional and national network initiatives that are of concern and interest to UCI. The UC campuses are connected by UCnet, but are working with CENIC (the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) to create CalREN-2, a new high speed California network.
vBNS (very high performance Backbone Network Service) is a backbone network already in production that [...]
Vice President Gore announced on May 20 that the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) will receive a grant of nearly $4 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will allow UCI and other California research universities (UC campuses, Cal Tech, Stanford and USC) to connect to the very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS). UCI will gain an [...]