CENIC

Description

CENIC is charged with designing, provisioning and operating robust, high capacity, next generation Internet communications services through a cohesive infrastructure for its associates and affiliates. CENIC represents the common interests of its associates, who are drawn from California's higher education academic and research communities, and is highly accountable to the institutions it serves in order to fulfill the trust that has been placed with it. CENIC also provides services to California K-12 schools and, in order to facilitate the education and research mission of its associates, to non-California higher education institutions and to industry research organizations with which CENIC Associate researchers and educators are engaged.Information technology has become an integral part of the nation's higher education and research programs and is of growing importance in the K-20 curricula. Broadband communications networks that enable high quality communications among colleagues and technologies form the core of modern information technologies.The resultant ever-increasing demand for advanced data communications services and interconnectivity represents significant potential new costs for California higher education research institutions. In response to satisfying this need at affordable costs, technology leaders from California's higher education community joined together in the late 90’s to form the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), whose goal is to achieve cost-effective, cohesive, advanced communication services for higher education and research in California.

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