31 Mar 2021 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – March 2021 Edition By Sara Aly 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. US Ignite and Project OVERCOME Select Seven Communities for National Science Foundation-Funded Broadband AwardsFor 20 years, WiSE… Read More
30 Mar 2021 Community News The Use of Low-Latency, High-Quality Technology in the Performing Arts Hits Home During Pandemic Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Internet2’s Ann Doyle shares her personal account of adopting technology at home to perform music in advance of the Network Performing Arts Production Virtual 2021 Workshop on April 27-28 By Ann Doyle, Internet2 It is Sunday, March… Read More
30 Mar 2021 Cloud Internet2 Announces airSlate’s Workflow Automation, PDF Editing, and E-Signature Solutions to Join the NET+ Program Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Dana Voss, Internet2 Program Manager, Cloud Services Internet2 has just signed a pre-service evaluation agreement for airSlate’s suite of workflow automation and document management solutions, including pdfFiller, signNow, and airSlate. Higher education institutions… Read More
25 Mar 2021 Research Engagement I2 Online Event Identifies Cyberinfrastructure Gaps for Under-Resourced Institutions Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By John Hicks, Internet2 Network Research Engineer The Eastern Regional Network (ERN) Broadening the Reach (BTR) working group is focused on learning how best to support smaller, mid-sized, and under-resourced campuses. The campuses include Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic-Serving… Read More
23 Mar 2021 Community Anchor Program I-Light: Connecting Small Colleges to National and Regional Research Networks Estimated reading time: 3 minutes By Therese Perlowski, Internet2 CAP Program Manager Thanks to I-Light, Indiana’s high-speed fiber-optic network for the research and education community, small colleges are receiving help to apply for and receive funding that previously only went to larger… Read More
22 Mar 2021 Advanced Networking Now Online: First Internet2 Next Generation Infrastructure 400G Ethernet Links for New Routed Network Estimated reading time: 4 minutes By Chris Wilkinson, Internet2 Network Services Director of Planning and Architecture Internet2 marks the beginning of this week having deployed its first operational 400 Gbps Ethernet connections for its new Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) platform. Cisco 8201… Read More
18 Mar 2021 Internet2 Announcements Internet2 Statement on Violence Against the Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Communities By Howard Pfeffer, Internet2 President and CEO Racism and violence against the Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities is sad and reprehensible. Internet2 stands in solidarity with our community in condemning these hateful actions. To our Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander colleagues, please know that we support you… Read More
16 Mar 2021 Cloud I2 Online Event: Shifting LMS and Student Expectations in Preparation for a Post-Pandemic Academy Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Quyen Vailliant, Internet2 Associate Program Manager The pandemic has brought sweeping changes to higher education. Universities have learned to rapidly create online courses; faculty have adapted their teaching styles to support distance learning, and students have learned… Read More
15 Mar 2021 Cloud Self-Service Cloud Solutions for Researchers Seizes the Moment in I2 Online Event Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Bob Flynn, Internet2 Program Manager, Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services Have you ever had it happen where the thing you are thinking so much about starts to pop up everywhere? You are shopping for a new car and… Read More
11 Mar 2021 Security Security Scene: March 2021 Edition Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer I hereby petition to rename “March” to “Slog,” as the latter more accurately describes the passage of time these days. At least it’s starting to be a warmer slog, eh? I enjoyed… Read More