Duke: Global Learning via Cisco TelePresence
Today Duke University and Cisco announced a virtual lecture hall based on Cisco TelePresence to enable business school students with access to professors, business leaders and guest lecturers located...
View ArticleNLR at Quilt/StateNets
NLR's paid-for fiber and equipment and lack of any acceptable use policy means it can deliver high bandwidth at low cost for the long term, NLR President and CEO Glenn Ricart told participants at last...
View ArticlePA Wins $100M Broadband Grant
The Keystone Initiative for Network-Based Education and Research (KINBER), a coalition of Pennsylvania colleges and universities, research and health care organizations and economic development...
View ArticleUniversity of Kentucky Hosts CI Days
The University of Kentucky in Lexington is hosting a Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days Workshop February 22-23, 2010. Dan Updegrove for NLR and Russ Hobby for Internet2 are co-hosting a poster session on...
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CENIC Award to Former NLR CEO Tom West
CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), announced its 2010 Innovations in Networking Awards today, at the CENIC annual conference.The Award for Outstanding...
View ArticleWhite House: Call for student-led innovation, also on R&E nets
A March 25 post on the White House blog by Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Tom Kalil, deputy director for policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy suggested...
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NLR, Internet2 at University of Kentucky's CI Days
Here's a photo from the joint NLR - Internet2 poster session at Cyberinfastructure (CI) Days at the University of Kentucky February 22-23, by Dan Updegrove, a consultant to NLR, and Russ Hobby, a chief...
View ArticleNLR's Glenn Ricart on Internet Evolution Radio
This morning NLR president and CEO Glenn Ricart had a wide-ranging, live audiocast conversation with Internet Evolution editor-in-chief Terry Sweeney on NLR's technology vision and strategy, high-end...
View ArticleGreat read on PennREN, BTOP and NLR's Wendy Huntoon
An excellent narrative in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pennsylvania Research and Education Network's (PennREN) journey to securing $99.6 million in BTOP stimulus funding to bring broadband to the...
View ArticleCisco News: NLR "America's Most Advanced Network"
NLR's the subject of several feature stories appearing this week on Cisco's online newsroom. One of the articles highlights that NLR is an unfettered resource for research and commercial innovation,...
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All Hands Meeting Photos
Photos from today's All Hands Meeting program and reception at the GRNOC at Indiana University have been posted to NLR's Flickr site. Here are a few. More to come from Day 2. Also favorites from other...
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More All Hands Meeting Photos
More photos . . . first of our distinguished member and user panel with, from left, Cas d'Angelo, Chief Network Architect, Georgia Tech; Peter O'Neil, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads; Dave...
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Modeling Oil Spill's Trajectory
Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), managed by NLR member the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) with NSF funding, released a detailed computer...
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Quilt's Tour of New Duke TelePresence Classroom: 1st to Fill 12 Segments on...
The Quilt's virtual tour, via Cisco TelePresence, of Duke University's new TelePresence Classroom was a smashing success, utilizing, for the first time on the NLR-operated Research and Education Cisco...
View ArticleBroadband Grants Fill Commercial Gap: New York Times
A feature in yesterday's New York Times provided several examples of the expected impact to individuals, businesses and community anchors of the recently announced NTIA broadband grants, which included...
View ArticleCENIC, PNWGP 10Gig Link to Amazon
This past week NLR members CENIC and the Pacific Northwest GigaPoP (PNWGP) announced two 10Gbps connections to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)...
View ArticleTGen: New 10G pipe into NLR, Turbocharging Life Sciences Research
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) based in Phoenix, Arizona and connected to NLR via Arizona State University, announced on Friday a new, dedicated 10-Gigabit Ethernet link to...
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NLR TelePresence Exchange Links Boston, Arizona Schools
Students at Boston's John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science were able to compare course notes and talk about social media with counterparts 2,600 miles away, in Paradise Valley outside of...
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Transcontinental Workshop - via TelePresence on NLR
The Technical University of Kosice (TUKE) in Slovakia and Paradise Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) outside of Phoenix recently co-hosted a two-week bootcamp on Cisco networking over TelePresence...
View ArticleNLR speaks at international ed conference
NLR's Kurt Snodgrass, Chief Administrative and Financial Officer, spoke last week on the new, global TelePresence inter-network and the opportunities this presents for the research and education...
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