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Jun
2023
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – June 2023 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. This Week Call for Participation for the 2023 NSF Cybersecurity Summit for Large Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure (Trusted CI)…
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May
2023
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – May 2023 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – May 21-31 LIGO Ready to Explore Secrets of the Universe (Caltech)…
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May
2023
5 Questions for Luke Fowler on Embracing Network Automation at Indiana University’s GlobalNOC
“The best advice I can give is to just get started somewhere. You don’t have to have everything figured out to begin your automation journey and to begin reaping benefits from automation.” – Luke Fowler Let’s make network automation a priority in…
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Apr
2023
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – April 2023 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – April 23-30 The Minds We Need: Research and Education Infrastructure (Marconi Society)…
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Apr
2023
5 Questions for Karl Newell and Chris Wilkinson on Embracing Network Automation at Internet2
Let’s make network automation a priority in 2023. We’ve heard the community loud and clear: It’s time to move the conversation from “if” to “when and how” the research and education (R&E) community can embrace automation for the betterment of all. In this “Embracing Network Automation” blog series, we’re gathering…
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Mar
2023
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – March 2023 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – March 26-31 MANRS Community Report 2022: Significant Milestones and Broadening Engagement…
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Feb
2023
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – February 2023 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – February 19-28 CENIC Validates Coherent Pluggables with Integrated Amplifier over Production Network…
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Feb
2023
18 New Members Join InCommon Steering and Advisory Committees in 2023
Internet2 and InCommon are pleased to welcome 18 new members to the InCommon Steering Committee and InCommon Advisory Committees. By volunteering with these committees, community members contribute their insights, expertise, and talents within identity and access management (IAM) to advance the research and education (R&E) community.
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Jan
2023
Q&A with Robert Sears: N-Wave Reaches New Milestones as an Innovative Mission Enabler in the Science Community
Robert Sears Robert Sears is the director of N-Wave, the advanced, high-speed, and highly scalable network service provider operating from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of the Chief Information Officer. While it’s known as “NOAA’s Network,” N-Wave has expanded…
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Jan
2023
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – January 2023 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. 47 Undergraduate Students Earn Their Place at Leading Aerospace Organizations in the Brooke Owens Fellowship Class of 2023…
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Jan
2023
NYSERNet Moves the Needle on Routing Integrity: Implementing Peer-Facing RPKI Route Origin Validation
A Q&A with Bill Owens, NYSERNet We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Routing integrity is an end-to-end challenge that requires the participation of the entire Internet2-networked community and beyond. So, what does that mean? It’s in everyone’s best interest to work together to ensure our research and education…
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Dec
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – December 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Higher Ed IT Leaders Discuss 2023 Tech Trends (EdTech) UChicago and Argonne Computer Scientist…
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Nov
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – November 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – November 27-30 Terrapin Fast: New Zaratan High-Performance Computer Boosts University of Maryland Researchers’ Problem-Solving…
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Nov
2022
Internet2 at SC22 – We’ll See You in Dallas!
For over two decades, Internet2 has been an active participant in the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, otherwise known as SC, and a proud contributor to SCinet—the cutting-edge, high-speed network built each year in support of the conference. Internet2…
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Nov
2022
Congratulations to SCinet Chair Matt Zekauskas and the 175+ Volunteers Building SCinet for SC22
Matt Zekauskas (Photo courtesy of Hans Addleman, SC22 SCinet Deputy Chair and Principal Network Systems Engineer at Indiana University.) Internet2’s own Matt Zekauskas, senior engineer, is the 2022 chair of SCinet – the SC Conference’s high-capacity network! He’s a legend at SC…
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Oct
2022
First Time at TechEX? 5 Tips to Maximize Your Experience
Start the countdown. Just 35 days remain until the 2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange, and we can’t wait to see you in Denver, Colo., Dec. 5-9! With expert advice from Internet2 staff, we put together five tips to help first-time attendees make the most of their TechEX22 experience. It’s been…
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Oct
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – October 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – October 23-31 Happy 25th Birthday, Wi-Fi (Carnegie Mellon University)The Rise of…
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Oct
2022
Community Is at the Center of ‘Getting It Right’ for the Internet2 Insight Console
Part 2 of a Q&A with Mike Simpson, Internet2 Director of Network Systems and Software When we’re doing more, more quickly, and at higher levels of complexity than ever before, software-enabled automation and orchestration are key components of our collective success. It’s a reality the Internet2 community recognized when they…
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Oct
2022
Front Range GigaPoP Moves the Needle on Routing Integrity: Boosting Member Participation in RPKI
Q&A with John Hernandez, Front Range GigaPoP We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Routing integrity is an end-to-end challenge that requires the participation of the entire Internet2-networked community and beyond. So, what does that mean? It’s in everyone’s best interest to work together to ensure our research and…
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Oct
2022
How Big a Deal is the Internet2 Insight Console?
Part 1 of a Q&A with Mike Simpson, Internet2 Director of Network Systems and Software Mike Simpson, Internet2 Director of Network Systems and Software As the Internet2 community embarked on the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) initiative years ago, they recognized that software-enabled automation and orchestration would be key components of…
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Oct
2022
See Yourself in Cyber – Internet2 Staff Celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is underway, offering plentiful opportunities to share resources and coalesce around efforts to support secure infrastructure, reliable solutions, and safe communities. This year’s theme, which is collaboratively set by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National…
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Sep
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – September 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – September 25-30 Clark Atlanta University Selected as Site for New PROPEL Center A Global…
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Sep
2022
How to Deploy Cloud Services Faster, Save Cost, and Manage Risk – Together
Key Perspectives From Community Cloud Experts Despite the growing prevalence of new cloud services at higher ed institutions large and small, opportunities remain to smooth out the path for procuring and deploying them. In reality, many obstacles persist for the procurement and enterprise IT staff who are at the helm…
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Sep
2022
I-Light and Indiana GigaPOP Move the Needle on Routing Integrity: Maintaining Proxy IRR Data for Members
Q&A with Tom Johnson and Sean Carver, I-Light and the Indiana GigaPOP We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Routing integrity is an end-to-end challenge that requires the participation of the entire Internet2-networked community and beyond. So, what does that mean? It’s in everyone’s best interest to work together…
09
Sep
2022
Coming Full Circle: Past Scholarship Recipients Now at the Helm of Internet2’s Inclusivity Initiative
Q&A with Deidre Mitchell and Sarvani Chadalapaka, I2I Steering Committee Co-Chairs At the start of 2022, Internet2 selected Deidre Mitchell, enterprise information security engineer at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, and Sarvani Chadalapaka, director of Cyberinfrastructure and Research Technologies (CIRT) at the University…
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Aug
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – August 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – August 28-31 Cracking the Code to Help Planet Earth (USC Viterbi)…
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Aug
2022
What You Should Know About Multicloud
6 Questions for Matt Zekauskas, Internet2 Senior Engineer Matt Zekauskas Matt Zekauskas is well known in the research and education (R&E) community as a wearer of many hats – Internet2 senior engineer, research scientist, perfSONAR contributor, and this year’s chair of SCinet, the SC Conference’s volunteer-built…
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Aug
2022
Federated Identity Management Cookbook: New Community Resource Offers Primer, Time-Tested Recipes for IdM
Eric Scott and Josh Drake CI Compass and its Identity Management (IdM) Working Group recently published The Federated Identity Management Cookbook, a new resource that provides time-tested recipes for building IdM capabilities for research cyberinfrastructure. It also serves as a primer on…
09
Aug
2022
We’re Shaking Things Up for the 2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange
Opting Out of a Keynote and Opting In for More Cross-Audience Exchanges, Reduced Registration Rates, and Increased Scholarships to Support Diversity and Inclusion We’ve all seen it. Some of us have done it. With the conference keynote only minutes away, a small group of community colleagues is huddled in a…
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Jul
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – July 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – July 24-31 The Many Versions of a Female Scientist (UC Santa Barbara)…
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Jun
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – June 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – June 26-30 NOAA, University of Colorado to Expand Cooperative Research Partnership…
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May
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – May 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – May 22-31 Provost, Chief Information Officer Announcement (University of North Texas)…
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May
2022
Q&A with Jim Stewart: UETN Among the ‘First to 400G’ on Internet2’s Network
Internet2 recently unveiled its fifth-generation backbone, known as the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI). NGI interconnects with 37 state and regional networks and serves every state in the U.S. Among these 37 are the first five to upgrade to 400 gigabits per second connectivity: Florida LambdaRail, Indiana GigaPOP, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads,…
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Apr
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – April 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – April 24-30 Keltch Named New Chief Information Officer at University of Arkansas Little Rock…
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Apr
2022
Q&A with Marianne Chitwood: Indiana GigaPOP Among the ‘First to 400G’ on Internet2’s Network
Marianne Chitwood, Executive Director of I-Light and Indiana GigaPOP Internet2 recently unveiled its fifth-generation backbone, known as the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI). NGI interconnects with 37 state and regional networks and serves every state in the U.S. Among these 37 are the first five to upgrade to 400 gigabits…
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Mar
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – March 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – March 27-31 Florida LambdaRail Completes 400Gbps Connection to Internet2’s Next Generation Infrastructure…
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Mar
2022
Q&A with Tripti Sinha: MAX Among the ‘First to 400G’ on Internet2’s Network
Tripti Sinha, Executive Director of Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) Internet2 recently unveiled its fifth-generation backbone, known as the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI). NGI interconnects with 37 state and regional networks and serves every state in the U.S. Among these 37 are the first five to upgrade to 400 gigabits…
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Mar
2022
Q&A with Pankaj Shah: OARnet Among the ‘First to 400G’ on Internet2’s Network
Internet2 recently unveiled its fifth-generation backbone, known as the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI). NGI interconnects with 37 state and regional networks and serves every state in the U.S. Among these 37 are the first five to upgrade to 400 gigabits per second connectivity: Florida LambdaRail, Indiana GigaPOP, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads,…
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Feb
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – February 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – February 20-28 Retiring Utah Education and Telehealth Network CEO Ray Timothy Talks Growth, Digital…
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Feb
2022
Q&A with Robert Grillo: FLR Among the ‘First to 400G’ on Internet2’s Network
Internet2 recently unveiled its fifth-generation backbone, known as the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI). NGI interconnects with 37 state and regional networks and serves every state in the U.S. Among these 37 are the first five to upgrade to 400 gigabits per second connectivity: Florida LambdaRail, Indiana GigaPOP, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads,…
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Jan
2022
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – January 2022 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – January 23-31 Network Nebraska Provides Pandemic AssistanceCaltech Names Laurie Leshin…
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Jan
2022
New Co-Chairs Selected for Internet2 Inclusivity Initiative Steering Committee
Internet2 welcomes Sarvani Chadalapaka, director of Cyberinfrastructure and Research Technologies (CIRT) at the University of California Merced, and Deidre Mitchell, enterprise information security engineer at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, as the new co-chairs of the Internet2 Inclusivity Initiative (I2I) Steering Committee.
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Jan
2022
Ready. Set. Get Involved! Join an Internet2 Community Group
Robust engagement in Internet2’s Community Groups is the linchpin for moving our community forward. From chartering working groups, advisory groups, and communities of interest, to developing best practices and guiding new solutions – thought leaders from institutions large and small engage regularly to identify challenges and determine new ways…
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Dec
2021
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – December 2021 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – December 26-31 Ohio is Using $12.1 Million to Improve Fiber Speeds for Colleges (EdScoop)…
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Dec
2021
Catalysts Offer Unique Expertise, Meaningful Contributions to the InCommon Community
Just six months have passed since the InCommon Catalyst community partner program launched in June 2021. And evidence of the Catalysts’ deep, ongoing commitment to the InCommon community is already stacking up. Catalysts are industry leaders and Internet2 members that actively contribute to identity and access…
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Nov
2021
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – November 2021 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – November 28-30 Texas A&M HPRC Builds Computing Partnerships With Community Colleges…
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Nov
2021
Automation and Orchestration No Longer a ‘Nice to Have’ for Internet2’s Next Generation Infrastructure
Chris Wilkinson and Karl Newell Chris Wilkinson is the network services director of planning and architecture at Internet2, and Karl Newell is the network software architect at Internet2. In this Q&A, Chris and Karl discuss how software-driven automation and orchestration sets Internet2’s Next Generation Infrastructure apart from any previous version…
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Nov
2021
Seriously Scalable, Resilient, Accessible, and Fun! West Arete’s Scott Woods on Developing the CAMPfire Social App
Scott Woods is the CEO of West Arete, a custom software development company for the higher education community, InCommon Catalyst, and sponsor of the 2021 CAMP Week held October 4-8. In this Q&A, Scott…
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Oct
2021
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – October 2021 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – October 24-31 Volodymyr Kindratenko Named Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at…
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Oct
2021
Next-Generation Performance Assurance: Internet2’s Mike Simpson on Expanding perfSONAR Capabilities to Support the New Network
Mike Simpson is the director of infrastructure systems and software in the network services division of Internet2. In this Q&A, Mike talks about expanding and upgrading Internet2’s perfSONAR capabilities to support the Next Generation Infrastructure. One of the key drivers for the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) program is creating…
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Oct
2021
A Pipeline of Input for Better Network Performance Measurement: Internet2’s Mark Feit on the perfSONAR Collaboration
Mark Feit is a principal software engineer at Internet2, one of the core developers on the perfSONAR team, and a presenter at the upcoming Internet2 TechEXtra: perfSONAR Day, which is being held virtually on November 3. In this Q&A, Mark shares his thoughts about the…
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Sep
2021
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – September 2021 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. This Week US Closes in on Exascale: Frontier Installation Is Underway (HPCwire) Leading Supercomputing…
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Sep
2021
How InCommon Academy is Supporting IAM Infrastructure Modernization at Illinois State University
Majeed Abu-Qulbain, Senior Enterprise Architect at Illinois State University Majeed Abu-Qulbain, Senior Enterprise Architect at Illinois State University, is an alumnus of the InCommon Academy’s Collaboration Success Program and Trusted Access Platform training. In this Q&A, Majeed discusses how InCommon Academy is supporting his team’s…
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Sep
2021
It’s About More Than Storage: Tailoring Google Workspace for the Higher Ed Community
Internet2 NET+ Service Evaluation Participants Share Their Story What’s the special sauce of NET+, you ask? To find the answer, take a closer look at the recent launch of the NET+ Google Workspace for Education (GWE) service. Eight universities came together in May 2020 to complete the Internet2…
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Aug
2021
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – August 2021 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – August 29-31 IEEE and Edge Announce Partnership to Enhance Research Data Management and Collaboration…
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Aug
2021
Q&A with UW–Madison CIO Lois Brooks and Research CI Director Jan Cheetham Discuss Upskilling IT to Support Cloud Computing for Research
Lois Brooks and Jan Cheetham Lois Brooks, chief information officer and vice provost for information technology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is active nationally in the higher education community, having served in leadership and governance roles with the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, Unizin, Educause Learning Initiative, and Internet2. Jan Cheetham,…
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Aug
2021
CLASS Panel Shares Opportunities and Obstacles to Facilitating Cloud Computing for Research
Remember returning home from class excited to share what you learned that day? That’s a fresh feeling among participants from the first cohort of CLASS, Internet2’s Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions, who shared about the unique challenges of facilitating research in the cloud during a panel discussion at the…
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Jul
2021
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – July 2021 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. High Capacity Fiber Internet Service Expedites Connectivity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Through Highline Internet (Merit Network)…
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Jul
2021
Let’s Build Some IAM Momentum: Internet2’s Paul Caskey on a Community-Based Approach
Paul Caskey is one of several instructors and subject matter experts who facilitate the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP). Offering a modular professional development approach with just-in-time help from just-the-right people, the program helps higher education and research organizations overcome obstacles to reach their identity and access management (IAM) goals.
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Jul
2021
Internet2’s John Hicks Reflects on Expanding Access and Bridging the Gap for Research
John Hicks, network research engineer with Internet2, has spent most of his career supporting scientists, researchers, and research computing and data professionals in their use of high performance research and education (R&E) networks. His role with Internet2’s Research Engagement team includes supporting the Eastern Regional Network and its Broadening the…
02
Jul
2021
White Paper: New Community Resource Unpacks Misconceptions and Touts Benefits of Network Automation for Any Organization
Karl Newell Why the hesitation on network automation? A new community resource developed by collaborators from Merit Network, University of Michigan, GlobalNOC, Internet2, Cisco, ADVA, and Juniper Networks unpacks some of the common misconceptions surrounding network automation and sheds new light on the approach as a must-have component of a…
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Jun
2021
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – June 2021 Edition
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. CENIC Recognizes The Quilt as Outstanding Partner in Research and Education Networking University of…