CENIC Today -- September 2007

Mon Oct 8 14:58:41 PDT 2007

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Volume 10, Issue 8
October 8, 2007

Welcome to CENIC Today, the monthly newsletter of the Corporation for 
Education Network Initiatives in California.

IN THIS ISSUE:

CENIC News:
    * President's Message: A Day In the Life of CalREN
    * CalREN Update: Network Projects and Activities
    * Seventh Annual GLIF Workshop Held in Prague, Czech Republic
    * Spotlight on CETPA: The California Educational Technology 
Professionals Association
    * CENIC 08: Lightpath to the Stars — Call for Presentations and Call 
for Award Nominations
National Networking News:
    * University of New Mexico Works to Bring Modern Communications to Navajos
    * Cal Poly Architecture Department Receives Largest Single Gift 
Commitment in CSU History
    * National LambdaRail (NLR) and CANARIE Inc. Partner to Expand 
Networks, Promote International Research Collaboration
    * Mardi Gras 2008: Call for Papers
    * Internet2 Community Meets for Annual Fall Member Meeting To Highlight 
Advances in Internet Technology
    * SAGE-enabled Cyberspace Demonstration over GLORIAD Takes Place as 
Part of Sputnik Celebration
    * Six Petabytes: Fermilab Hits New Record
    * Clark County Schools Give Coax the Ax
About CENIC:
    * About CENIC
    * Subscription Information
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CENIC News:

President's Message: A Day in the Life of CalREN
On any given day, CENIC provides to the CalREN community a wide range of 
network services and support, ranging from videoconferencing and other 
network-based services to
fiber consulting and waves to support everything from metagenomics to 
educational rich-media delivery.  Often, our articles and my monthly 
President’s Message will focus on
one specific use of the network or a specific service.  However, this 
month, I'd like to illustrate for you the full diversity of the traffic 
traveling over CalREN on one particular day.
The results may surprise you.

You can see from the chart below that roughly 70% of the traffic over 
CalREN at any given time is either bound for or received from 
non-educational sites.  Commercial Internet
traffic, with a usage-based fee, contributes 8% to this total, and the rest 
is peering-related, with 43% originating from or destined for 
non-educational sites via settlement-free
peering arrangements on a national basis (with large companies or ISPs), 
and 18% also terminating at non-educational sites via settlement-free 
peering, but on a local basis.

Traffic exchanged exclusively between Associates, located mainly in 
California and the core of which consists of the institutions that CENIC 
was created to serve, contributes
15% to the total traffic over CalREN on any given day.

The Pacific Wave international exchange facility, a joint project between 
CENIC and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop and operated in collaboration with 
the University of Southern
California and the University of Washington, contributes 8% to the total 
CalREN network traffic.  The remaining 8% of traffic is traveling to or 
from other educational sites
accessible via one of the two national education backbones, either 
Internet2 or NLR.

The network usage pattern displayed in the chart below is probably 
representative over the period of a year.  Although CENIC hasn't 
historically maintained usage statistics, my
belief is that the largest growth area over time has been the traffic to 
and from commercial sites, with the second largest growth area, in terms of 
percentage, being the
international traffic.

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In other words, as part of our charter as a nonprofit organization serving 
California’s K-20 research and education community, CENIC dedicates a 
significant portion of our efforts
on behalf of that community to controlling costs and managing the 
performance of traffic to and from commercial sites.  This result serves to 
illustrate the type of network traffic
currently serving the various missions of the CENIC network Associates.

This pattern of network usage also illustrates the importance to CENIC (as 
well as to all of the CalREN Associates) of the aggressive and proactive 
management of commercial
Internet-related traffic, as this is likely to continue to grow more 
quickly that traffic shared between network Associates.

Stay tuned.  In a few years, we can revisit my predictions and see whether 
they were correct.
-- Jim Dolgonas, CENIC

CalREN Update: Network Projects and Activities
During the month of September, the <http://www.cccd.edu/>Coast Community 
College District's Gigabit connection to CalREN was put into production, 
and as this link serves not only the district office,
but <http://www.orangecoastcollege.edu/>Orange Coast College, 
<http://gwc.info/>Golden West College and <http://coastline.edu/>Coastline 
Community College as well, nearly 50,000 of California's community college 
students as well as faculty and staff
at all four locations now enjoy Gigabit connectivity to CalREN and to their 
colleagues within California and beyond.  Congratulations to the Coast CCD, 
and CENIC looks forward
to your coming achievements with the new connectivity to CalREN!

Among the K-12 schools and sites, the K12 High Speed Network 
(<http://www.k12hsn.org/>K12HSN) has authorized CENIC to upgrade various 
DS3 and OC3 circuits currently serving K-12 sites with high
circuit utilization. As a result, efforts are underway to upgrade eighteen 
existing circuits to Gigabit speeds.  As these new Gigabit connections are 
put into production,
announcements will be made in future issues of CENIC Today, so be sure to 
stay tuned to future editions for news about this project as well as 
circuit upgrades for yet more
campuses in California's Community College System.

If you've ever wanted to attend a forum where the highest quality 
scientists and engineers will be presenting their latest research findings 
related to all elements of supercomputing,
<http://sc07.supercomputing.org/>Supercomputing 07 (SC07) is the place to 
be.  SC07 is the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, 
Networking, Storage and Analysis. This year's conference
will be held in Reno, NV at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center (RSCC) from 
November 10-16, 2007.

As mentioned in last month's issue, since SC 07 will be held in Reno, NV, 
CENIC and the <http://wwwnevada.edu/>Nevada System of Higher Education 
(NSHE) have taken the lead on providing WAN
connectivity for the Reno-Sparks Convention Center (RSCC) from November 
10-16, 2007 during the conference.  CENIC and the NSHE will continue to put 
forth the highest effort
to make sure that SC07 lives up to the Supercomputing reputation.  If you'd 
like to visit Reno, NV and see for yourself, 
<http://sc07.supercomputing.org/?pg=registration.html>registration is still 
open at significant savings until October
15, 2007.  You can also find the entire conference program, exhibit 
information, and travel and tourism information about the Reno, NV area at 
the SC07 website at
http://sc07.supercomputing.org/.
-- Ed Smith, CENIC

Seventh Annual GLIF Workshop Held in Prague
On September 17-18, 2007, The Global Lambda Integrated Facility 
(<http://www.glif.is/>GLIF) held its 7th Annual 
<http://www.ces.net/glif2007/prog/>Global LambdaGrid Workshop in the 
historic city of Prague in the Czech Republic;
the meeting was hosted by <http://www.ces.net/>CESNET, the association of 
entities responsible for the Czech national research and education 
network.  Held in conjunction with CESNET's own
<http://www.ces.net/doc/seminars/cef2007/>Customer Empowered Fibre (CEF) 
Workshop, the GLIF Workshop took place at the 
<http://www.ces.net/glif2007/venue/>Carolinum, a magnificent 14th century 
building at the heart of Prague's <http://www.cuni.cz/>Charles University.
The Carolinum, shown below, is a marvel of period architecture and has been 
a central fixture in the university and old Gothic Prague for more than 600 
years.

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Both workshops featured researchers and organizations from four continents, 
highlighting the truly global scope of GLIF and the scale of global 
cooperation between research and
education networks as they work together to provide integrated and seamless 
service to their constituents.

Attendees in each of the GLIF working groups (Governance, Technical, 
Control Plane, and Research & Applications) came together to discuss topics 
and progress, to learn the
latest about the achievements being enabled by GLIF, and about GLIF 
activities and other activities around the globe in national and 
international level high-performance
networking.

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After the welcome address given by CESNET's Jan Gruntorad, 
<http://www.surfnet.nl/>SURFnet GigaPort Network director Kees Neggers 
provided an overview of GLIF for attendees, covering the history
of GLIF and the motivations for its creation both technical and 
application-driven.  Neggers' presentation also covered the structure of 
GLIF itself -- technical as well as
administrative as an international virtual organization managed as a 
cooperative activity with participants rather than members and a 
lightweight governance structure. The shared
vision of the GLIF community was also compelling presented as the pursuit 
of a new grid computing paradigm in which the central architectural element 
is optical networks and
not computers, with a vision of supporting the decade's most demanding 
e-science applications.

Jan Gruntorad then presented on GLIF-related activities in the Czech 
Republic, followed by John Silvester and Rick Summerhill representing 
<http://www.nlr.net/>NLR and <http://www.internet2.edu/>Internet2 (shown 
below) and
presenting on current network updates underway in the United States.  The 
presentation and demonstration given by Tom DeFanti of 
<http://www.calit2.net/>Calit2@<http://www.ucsd.edu/>UCSD and the 
<http://www.uic.edu/>University of Illinois
at Chicago on CineGrid and GLIF was a particular highlight.

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Other presentations covered topics as diverse as automated bandwidth 
allocation across heterogeneous networks given by researchers from Greece's 
<http://www.irc.gr/>GRNet and Ireland's
<http://www.heanet.ie/>HEAnet, Korea's Hybrid Network Initiative KREOnet2 
given by <http://www.kisti.re.kr/english/>KISTI's Dongkyun Kim, Internet2 
Land Speed Records in the GLIF Environment given by 
<http://www.wide.ad.jp/>WIDE's Akira Kato, and the
Brazilian network testbed 
<http://kyatera.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal>Kyatera given by the 
<http://kyatera.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal>University of São Paulo's 
Tereza Cristina Carvalho.

<http://www.cenic.org/>CENIC was represented by CTO Dave Reese at both the 
GLIF and CEF workshops.  At CEF, Reese gave a presentation at reviewing the 
upgrade of the CALREN-DC network,
currently underway, and the planned upgrade of CalREN-HPR and the 
underlying optical network.

Presentations and a full conference program for the GLIF Workshop can be 
found online at http://www.ces.net/glif2007/prog/, and CEF Workshop 
presentations are located at
the CESNET website at http://www.ces.net/doc/seminars/cef2007/.
-- Dave Reese, CENIC

Spotlight on CETPA: The California Educational Technology Professionals 
Association
Established in 1960, the California Educational Technology Professionals 
Associations (<http://www.cetpa-k12.org/>CETPA) is the premiere 
organization for technologists in California's K-12 system.
Between 1960 and 2007, computer technology has moved from its birth and 
infancy (vacuum tubes were giving way to practical and inexpensive 
transistor technology) through a
turbulent adolescence and into a promising maturity as massive innovations 
in networks, storage, and processors have made possible research and 
teaching paradigms
unthinkable even in the late 20th century.  As a result of these 
innovations, the roles and responsibilities of the K-12 educational 
technologist have grown more and more
demanding, and CETPA’s goal is to increase information sharing and 
communication among K-12 technologists on technology-related issues.

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 From October 9-12, 2007 in Indian Wells, CA in the heart of the Coachella 
Valley, <http://www.cetpa-k12.org/events/>CETPA's Annual Conference will 
feature keynote addresses by William M. Habermehl,
County Superintendent of Schools at the <http://www.ocde.k12.ca.us/>Orange 
County Department of Education and Mary J. Cullinane, Director of 
<http://www.microsoft.com/>Microsoft Corporation's 
<http://www.microsoft.com/Education/PiLUS.mspx>US Partners in Learning.  The
conference program features 
<http://www.cetpa-k12.org/events/schedule.php?evt=4&cmd=vi&typ=typ&id=1>Breakout 
and 
<http://www.cetpa-k12.org/events/schedule.php?evt=4&cmd=vi&typ=typ&id=4>Tech 
Talk sessions, a 
<http://www.cetpa-k12.org/events/schedule.php?evt=4&cmd=vi&typ=typ&id=2>hands-on 
lab where attendees can learn more about technology of educational interest 
including
podcasting and the newest offerings from 
<http://www.microsoft.com/>Microsoft and <http://www.apple.com/>Apple, 
<http://www.cetpa-k12.org/events/schedule.php?evt=4&cmd=vi&typ=typ&id=6>general 
events, and various 
<http://www.cetpa-k12.org/events/schedule.php?evt=4&cmd=vi&typ=typ&id=7>user 
and advisory group meetings.

A key feature of the CETPA Annual Conference is its 
<http://www.cetpa-k12.org/events/exhibitors.php?evt=4>Vendor Exhibitor 
Show, held one day only on October 11, 2007.  At this event, attendees can 
learn about the latest new
innovations and meet representatives from approximately 
<http://www.cetpa-k12.org/events/exhibitors.php?evt=4>150 organizations 
offering a smorgasbord of technology to help keep California's K-12 schools 
at the forefront of
global education and lifelong learning.  CENIC and the K-12 High Speed 
Network (<http://www.k12hsn.org/>K12HSN) will be located at Booth #413, so 
be sure to stop by!

The event is being held at the 
<http://www.renaissanceesmeralda.com/>Renaissance Esmeralda Resort and Spa, 
where attendees can enjoy not only the beautiful scenery of the Golden 
State's wide open spaces,
but <http://www.cetpa-k12.org/events/activities.php?evt=4>recreational 
activities suitable for all kinds of athletic and cultural interest.

Be sure to visit the http://www.cetpa-k12.org/events/ to learn more, and if 
you attend, stop by Booth #413 and say hello to 
<http://www.cenic.org/>CENIC and <http://www.k12hsn.org/>K12HSN!
-- Janis Cortese, CENIC

CENIC 08: Lightpath to the Stars — Call for Presentations and Call for 
Award Nominations
It seems like only a few weeks ago that researchers and educators from 
California and beyond met in the sunny and beautiful city of La Jolla, CA 
for three days of exciting
programming and networking at CENIC `07: Making Waves, and planning has 
begun in earnest for the 2008 conference, to be held from March 10-12, 2008 
in the scenic and
historic city of Oakland, CA.

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<http://cenic08.cenic.org/>Lightpath to the Stars, CENIC's 2008 Annual 
Conference, promises to be yet another in this series of premiere 
high-performance networking events for California's research and
education communities and their global colleagues.

However, a top-notch program means top-notch presenters, and with the 
choice of the world's leading researchers and educators among the network 
Associates that CENIC was
created to serve, that makes crafting the conference program both joy and 
challenge.  The <http://cenic08.cenic.org/cfp.html>Call for Presentations 
for <http://cenic08.cenic.org/>Lightpath to the Stars is open, and our Program
Committee, headed by the <http://www.sbccd.cc.ca.us/>San Bernardino 
Community College District's Glen Kuck and <http://www.usc.edu/>USC's 
Celeste Anderson, is looking for presentations, demonstrations, and panel
discussions focused on network-enabled applications and research related to 
the 2008 conference theme, "Lightpath to the Stars."

Presentations should fit into one of the following categories:
    * Technology and infrastructure
    * Teaching and learning
    * Application development, and
    * Use, trends, and/or future developments in network technology and 
related applications
CENIC 08's Program Committee is especially interested in presentations 
focused on research, teaching and learning activities involving multiple 
segments of the K-20 community,
and/or international collaborations. Projects or studies to be featured may 
be works-in-progress. The conference venue will be connected to CalREN, NLR 
and Internet2 to enable
live demonstrations of content or capability.

The deadline for proposals is November 9, 2007, and more information about 
the proper format for submissions and where and how to submit a proposal 
for presentation can be
found at http://cenic08.cenic.org/cfp.html.  Our past conference program 
for Making Waves can be found at http://cenic07.cenic.org/program.html if 
you're curious about the
types of presentations accepted for last year's conference in La Jolla.

CENIC's Annual Conference features more than presentations, however; our 
annual Innovations in Networking awards are also presented during our 
conference, and as such we
are also searching for <http://cenic08.cenic.org/cfa.html>Award Nominations 
for the 2008 Innovations in Networking Awards.  These awards highlight 
network applications and projects by identifying exemplary
innovations that leverage the network and have the potential to improve the 
way instruction and research is conducted, even when the impact of the 
innovation may not be felt
immediately.  We are especially interested in collaborative efforts 
developed in 2006-07 which engage multiple segments of the K-20 community 
and/or international partners. A
committee selected by the CENIC Board of Directors will determine the award 
winners on the basis of submitted materials, and additional interviews if 
necessary.

The deadline for submissions is December 7, 2007, and more information 
about the Call for Award Nominations can be found at 
http://cenic08.cenic.org/cfa.html, including
the proper format and categories for submissions and where and how to 
submit a nomination.  Summaries for past award winners can also be found at 
the <http://cenic08.cenic.org/cfa.html>Call for Award
Nominations, if you would like to see the types of projects and 
applications that have been honored in previous years.

The conference will be held this year at the 
<http://cenic08.cenic.org/hotel.html>Oakland Marriott City Center, located 
in the heart of downtown Oakland and convenient to fabulous shopping and 
dining as well
as historical sites such as <http://www.jacklondonsquare.com/>Jack London 
Square and Oakland's Chinatown.  The conference hotel is also extremely 
conveniently located within easy walking distance to 
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=1245+Broadway++Oakland,+CA+94602&daddr=1001+Broadway,+Oakland,+CA+94607&sll=37.815015,-122.26451&sspn=0.028851,0.053558&ie=UTF8&ll=37.8024,-122.27238&spn=0.007214,0.01339&z=17&om=1>BART
and 
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=245+Second+Street+Oakland,+CA+94602&daddr=1001+Broadway,+Oakland,+CA+94607&sll=37.8024,-122.27238&sspn=0.007214,0.01339&ie=UTF8&z=16&om=1>Amtrak 
stations (click links for walking maps), and through them may be reached 
from all major Bay Area airports.  The 
<http://cenic08.cenic.org/>conference website, shown below, features 
<http://cenic08.cenic.org/hotel.html>Hotel &
Travel information as well as links to local points of interest when 
<http://cenic08.cenic.org/tourism.html>visiting Oakland.

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We look forward to seeing you in Oakland in March 2008!
-- Janis Cortese, CENIC

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National Networking News:

University of New Mexico Works to Bring Modern Communications to Navajos
In the age of technology, there are people in rural New Mexico who have 
never used - or seen - an iPod or a cell phone.  Officials at Navajo 
Technical College, the Navajo Nation
and the University of New Mexico say it's time to bridge what they call 
"the technical divide."

Chris Landgraf, an Internet network engineer at UNM, said there's no reason 
people in far-flung areas of the state - particularly Navajos and other 
American Indians — should be
exempt from enjoying modern communication.  "The average Navajo American is 
on a bus two or three hours a day going to school," he said. "But when they 
come to
Albuquerque to visit, they see people here getting connectivity on the bus 
because of the wireless access."

Officials at Navajo Technical College, a tribal college in Crownpoint, are 
working on a project they hope will connect many American Indians to modern 
technology.  The project is
called "Internet to the Hogan" and covers the Navajo Nation, which includes 
New Mexico, Arizona and a portion of Utah.

UNM Information Technology Services is helping Navajo Technical College get 
connected to LambdaRail, an ultra-high-speed network serving universities 
and research
organizations. The crew is erecting a tower in Crownpoint to establish a 
point-to-point wireless connection with the Albuquerque Gigapop, an on-ramp 
to LambdaRail.
Source: 
<http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/sep/05/university-new-mexico-works-bring-modern-communica/>Albuquerque 
Tribune

Cal Poly Architecture Department Receives Largest Single Gift Commitment in 
CSU History
The Architecture Department at <http://www.calpoly.edu/>California 
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, a nationally recognized 
program that has educated many of the professional architects
who serve California and the nation, announced on September 26, 2007 a 
pledged bequest of $60 million.

It is the largest single gift commitment ever made to a campus in the 
<http://www.calstate.edu/>California State University – the largest system 
of senior higher education in the country.

Nationwide, it is also one of the largest gift commitments ever made to an 
architecture department at a public university.

Cal Poly is respecting the donor’s request that his name not be announced.
Source: 
<http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2007/September/caed_gift_release.html>Cal 
Poly News

National LambdaRail (NLR) and CANARIE Inc. Partner to Expand Networks, 
Promote International Research Collaboration
National LambdaRail (<http://www.nlr.net/>NLR), a dedicated national 
network infrastructure serving U.S. research and higher-education, and 
<http://www.canarie.ca/>CANARIE, Canada’s advanced network development
organization, announced today they have agreed to partner to expand each 
other’s network infrastructure and further enable international research 
and collaboration.

The agreement will expand NLR members' access in the Northeastern U.S., 
connecting Boston and New York to Chicago through Canada, and provide an 
alternate path between
western and central Canada through the U.S. for CANARIE users. CANARIE's 
connectivity over NLR was made operational yesterday. The expanded NLR 
network, over
CANARIE, will be fully operational by the end of the year.
Source: <http://www.nlr.net/newsroom/release.php?id=32>NLR News

Mardi Gras 2008: Call for Papers
 From lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids: understanding the spectrum of 
distributed computing requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, 
interoperability, and the
incremental adoption of key capabilities is the theme of 
<http://www.mardigrasconference.org/>Mardi Gras 2008, to be held January 31 
to February 2, 2008 at <http://www.lsu.edu/>Louisiana State University in 
Baton Rouge, LA.

The goal of Mardi Gras 2008 is to improve our understanding of the drivers 
for all of these technologies, how they relate to one another, and how user 
communities can transition
from simpler approaches, like Web 2.0 mash-ups, to more full-service grids, 
when better discovery, reliability, security, etc., are needed -- while 
achieving sufficient interoperability
-- and how tightly coupled virtual organizations can be.

To this end, we are seeking the best, most insightful papers on all of 
these technologies, and the application domains that are driving their 
requirements and development.  The
deadline for submissions is October 31, 2007, and 
<http://www.mardigrasconference.org/callforpapers.php>more information on 
the proper format for submissions and where and how to submit can be found 
at the <http://www.mardigrasconference.org/>Mardi Gras 2008
website.
Source: <http://www.mardigrasconference.org/callforpapers.php>The Mardi 
Gras Conference

Internet2 Community Meets for Annual Fall Member Meeting To Highlight 
Advances in Internet Technology
<http://www.internet2.edu/>Internet2's annual Fall Member Meeting brings 
the future of the Internet to San Diego this week as the organization and 
its member community meet to celebrate another year
of accomplishment and advances in Internet development and discovery.

Dr. Larry Smarr, director of <http://www.calit2.net/>Calit2, will present 
the opening keynote titled, “New Applications of SuperNetworks and the 
Implications for Campus Networks" and Dr. Francine
Berman, director of the <http://www.sdsc.ued/>San Diego Supercomputer 
Center will chair a panel entitled, “Cyberinfrastructure: The Way Forward” 
at the second general session of the meeting.

The meeting will also include a wide variety of sessions including 
presentations by the member community on the new high-performance 
nationwide Internet2 Network, advances
in middleware technology, new optical networking technologies, network 
research, as well as advanced applications in telemedicine, arts and 
humanities, K-12 educational
programs, distance-learning, among many others.
Source: <http://events.internet2.edu/2007/fall-mm/agenda.cfm>Internet2

SAGE-enabled Cyberspace Demonstration over GLORIAD Takes Place as Part of 
Sputnik Celebration
Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I — little more than a 
beeping metal ball — into space. Never before had an artificial satellite 
orbited the Earth. Sputnik I
advanced the future of space travel, and this week, its historically 
significant launch was marked with a global networking demonstration that 
advances the future of cyber travel.

At Russia’s International Forum for the 50th anniversary of Sputnik I, a 
five-day celebration of the historic launch being held in Moscow and St. 
Petersburg, guests attending a
special demonstration at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Space 
Research Institute (<http://www.cosmos.ru/>IKI) in Moscow saw 
high-resolution animations streamed from the United States
and the Netherlands to Russia over <http://www.gloriad.org/>GLORIAD 
research and education networks using visualization middleware called the 
Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment 
(<http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/sage/index.php>SAGE).
Source: <http://www.gloriad.org/gloriad/news/pr-us-russia-sage.html>GLORIAD 
News

Six Petabytes: Fermilab Hits New Record
The U.S. national accelerator laboratory <http://www.fnal.gov/>Fermilab 
recently reached a record six petabytes—six million Gigabytes—of data 
permanently recorded on tape, while data sent from the
lab exceeded two petabytes, more than double the amount leaving the lab 
three months earlier.

“Our traffic has been growing in terms of the amount of bytes we move onto 
the site as the <http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/>Large Hadron Collider and 
<http://cms.cern.ch/>Compact Muon Solenoid experiments ramp up,” said Matt
Crawford, the department head for Data Movement and Storage in Fermilab’s 
Computing Division.

Prior to a year ago, traffic never exceeded a fourth of a petabyte in a 
month, Crawford said. He attributes the increase in both outgoing and 
incoming data to CMS, DZero, and
Collider Detector at Fermilab collaborators actively moving data for analysis.
Source: <http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000660>International Science Grid This Week

Clark County Schools Give Coax the Ax
Saving anywhere from $50,000 to $200,000 by not having to install coaxial 
cable TV networks in each new school that is built would be a welcome 
development for any school
system. When you're building 10 or 11 new schools a year as Nevada's Clark 
County School District (CCSD) in Las Vegas is, however, you're talking 
about a significant amount of
money spared.

"That's a lot of savings," said Philip Brody, chief technology officer for 
the 310,000-student district, the nation's fifth largest (and fastest 
growing). "It really starts to add up."

CCSD stopped putting coaxial cable, or "coax," in its new schools after a 
pilot project to study the feasibility of the idea proved highly successful 
two years ago. Now, instead of
running over coax, all video service for the district's new schools going 
forward--23 buildings and counting--is streamed over the schools' IP 
networks, Brody said.
Source: 
<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7422>eSchool News

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About CENIC:
California’s education and research communities leverage their networking 
resources under CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in 
California, in order to obtain
cost-effective, high-bandwidth networking to support their missions and 
answer the needs of their faculty, staff, and students.  CENIC designs, 
implements, and operates CalREN,
the California Research and Education Network, a high-bandwidth, 
high-capacity Internet network specially designed to meet the unique 
requirements of these communities, and
to which the vast majority of the state’s K-20 educational institutions are 
connected.  In order to facilitate collaboration in education and research, 
CENIC also provides connectivity
to non-California institutions and industry research organizations with 
which CENIC’s Associate researchers and educators are engaged.

CENIC is governed by its member institutions.  Representatives from these 
institutions also donate expertise through their participation in various 
committees designed to ensure
that CENIC is managed effectively and efficiently, and to support the 
continued evolution of the network as technology advances.

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