November 3, 2010
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Supported by a grant from NSF, eight universities (including the UWisconsin System) have been funded to help support a “CI Days” event at their campus. CI Days are intended to bring together various sectors of the campus (Faculty, IT Staff, … Continue reading
July 3, 2010
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Small schools (K12 and Colleges with less than 1,000 students) are accustomed like all of us to accessing email around the clock. We know email is habit forming at best and compulsive at worst. The new economy proves funding 24/7 … Continue reading
January 19, 2010
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15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network. Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists … Continue reading
April 29, 2009
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Today begins Internet2′s Spring Member meeting. The hot topic of conversation? Broadband stimulus funding.
March 10, 2009
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Attended Brainstorm 10.0 today and had a chance to hear PC industry pundit John C. Dvorak. Brainstorm had a great number of technology sessions for K12 Technology Directors. The most surprising session was “HD video over IP for Distance Learning” … Continue reading
November 10, 2008
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I recently posted a tweet about my work with K12 school districts regarding web content filtering issues with YouTube and was very happy to receive a couple of DMs from Angela Maiers and Elizabeth Holmes, two education professionals who I … Continue reading
November 9, 2008
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The Boreas Network in the Midwest connecting Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been upgraded to a 200GB network capacity. This Regional Optical Network (RON) will be advancing the … Continue reading
October 19, 2008
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The 2008 Fall Internet2 member meeting last week in New Orleans proved that Big Science is here and I’m not sure the world is prepared to handle LHC’s generated data. The session included an HD video conference to the Large … Continue reading
October 14, 2008
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The Fall member meeting of Internet2 is underway this week in New Orleans. Tulane President Scott Cowen is giving the keynote address. Catch the conference netcasts here. HD video is supported as well. Tags: Internet2, bandwidth, network, fiber, globalization, trends
August 19, 2008
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Today WiscNet is offsite at the 10th annual Angelbeat conference at the Milwaukee Hilton City Center. The team is coming in from Madison and I was able to sleep in this morning until 5:30am and hang with Max for a … Continue reading