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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. Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities (NSF) Richard Mendola Named Vice…
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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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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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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…