CEN HOSTS ON MAY 15TH 2015 MAKING CONNECTIONS THAT MATTER CONFERENCE The CEN conference is fast approaching, on Friday May 15th at the Hartford Convention Center. The conference is shaping up to be our best yet, with two confirmed keynote speakers, over 400 registered participants and strong support from our vendor community. We look forward to welcoming you on the day and encourage you to post your thoughts and photos at: #CEN15Conference. We are pleased to provide you detailed information about our sessions, including abstracts on each presentation and speakers' biographies via our mobile app. Download the mobile app so you will have access to our full conference experience. If you haven't done so already, please register to attend the conference. We will also be accepting walkins on the day. Member Spotlight: Benefits of Partnership with Akamai
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CEN is part of Akamai's Accelerated Network Partner Program, making us one oftheir 1300 partners, across 28,000 locations in over 100countries. The advantage of this partnership to CEN members is that you areable to have faster, more reliable and more secure access due to the directaccess to local cache housed in East Hartford. Akamai delivers between 15-30%of all Web traffic. Specifically of interest to our research and education networkis the accessibility provided to Universities, news, social media and financialnews sources, the Department of Education, in addition to interconnectivity withInternet2.
Learn more about Akamai's network range or additional information on thecompany.
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of our newsletter? We would like to hear from YOU about your latest news from
your school, town, library or organization that leverages technology. Tell us
about how you are using CEN that contributes to an accomplishment you have
recently achieved or how you are integrating technology in an educational
On March 12th, 2015, CEN members visited Cervalis' datacenter in Norwalk.CEN is pleased to facilitate access to Cervalis for power and rack space andmembers are encouraged to contract directly with Cervalis for these services.However, if you have a need for nonstandard equipment, please contact CENdirectly in regards to sharing CEN cage space. We are envisioning a future visitto Norwalk over the summer if there is sufficient interest. Please contact CEN ifyou would like to visit their Norwalk Datacenter ([email protected]).
Press on how CEN facilitates research data transfer between UConn Health Center and Storrs with 100 Gigabit connection.
Partnership with Internet2 reaping rewards
The 2015 Quilt Circle is out and CEN is highlighted. Read here about how CENwas chosen for the Quilt Member spotlight as CEN has provisioned a layer2circuit via Internet2 allowing CCAT to connect with duPont Center in Florida.
What is the Quilt? The Quilt is a prestigious national association for leaders inadvanced networking in support of research and education.
Jackson Lab is leveraging Internet2s' international reach to engage withAustralian researchers. More here.
CTGig Project
You might have been seeing some of the press lately regarding the CTGigProject. If not, we've included some below.
The background story: Jan 2015 from Broadband Communities
The interplay with CEN: March 2015 from TriCorner News and April 2015 fromBackChannel.
This is a project aimed at providing gigabit Internet access in CT towns and citiesat the level of the local constituencies (residential). This project is seen as acomplement to services provided by CEN and should it move forward, would besomething that could work in partnership with our existing network, with theCTGig Project providing the last mile connections within their towns and cities tointerested individuals.
The Middletown Press highlights the synergy between the Municipality Projectand CTGig Project here.
Tech Update
CEN is currently working with its regional partners: NYSERNet, NEREN andOSHEAN in order to best plan CEN's backbone network extension to New YorkCity!
New Connections and Recent Updates New Members since February 2015
Municipality ConnectionsTown of Bloomfield
The Town of Bloomfield has brought up connections, one at library and oneat school using BGP at both locations so they can have failover in case oneof the devices goes down.
Town of Coventry
Town of Essex
Town of Newtown
Town of Norfolk
Town of Redding
Town of Ridgefield
Town of Rocky Hill
Town of Southbury
Town of Stafford Springs
Town of Stafford
Town of Southington
Town of Windsor
Frank Angelillo from Windsor told us, "At this point, we have the library and town staff fully on CEN. [It is a] definite improvement, especially the upload speed."
Town of Woodbridge
Library Connections Bridgeport Public Library- upgraded to 10gb backbone and 1Gb handoffs.
Poquonnock Bridge Fire Department For more information on member benefits, please visit our website.
Municipality Project: Year Two Update
We are awaiting the announcement from theOffice of Policy and Management (OPM) and theGovernor's office on the second wave ofgrants associated with connecting MunicipalTown Halls across the state with the NutmegNetwork, made up of the Connecticut EducationNetwork and the Public Safety Data Network.This could mean new connections for up to 30towns/ COGs (those with pending grantrequests). This announcement could bring us up to a total of
85 connections for municipalities across CT. At present, CEN currently has 25Towns and COGs have connected so far from year 1 of this project, in additionto 30 towns from Year 2 (and 17 connections made outside the grant). Thisincludes Fairfield's connection to the Connecticut Education Network. For more information on this project, please contact [email protected] orcall her at (860) 622-4571.
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