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Ohio Receives Additional $111.3 Million in Broadband Recovery Act Awards Columbus, Ohio - August 18, 2010 - Ohio Governor Ted Strickland today announced that two members of an Ohio public-private consortium were awarded more than $111 million in grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to extend broadband access throughout northeast and southern Ohio. |
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Broadband Expands To Western Ohio Columbus, Ohio - July 23, 2010 - Twenty-eight western Ohio counties will soon have faster broadband access, with more capacity, thanks to a $30-million award to Com Net from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, reports Columbus' NBC affiliate WCMH. |
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Ohio Middle Mile Consortium partner awarded $30 million for broadband stimulus grant Columbus, Ohio - July 2, 2010 - The Ohio Middle Mile Consortium announced today that Com Net, Inc., a founding member, has been awarded federal stimulus funding that will add almost 700 new miles of broadband fiber to rural and underserved communities throughout western Ohio. |
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OARnet Hosting ESCC/Internet2 Summer Joint Techs Meeting Ann Arbor, Michigan/Berkeley, California/Columbus, Ohio - June 10, 2010 - The Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) is hosting the Summer 2010 Joint Techs, a premier international conference of network engineers, from July 11-15, 2010, at The Ohio State University's new Ohio Union in Columbus, Ohio. |
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Dublin named among world's top 'intelligent communities' Columbus, Ohio - February 2, 2010 - The City of Dublin, home to the Central Ohio Research Network, recently was named a Top Seven Intelligent Community in a think tank's annual list of smart cities. |
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Partnership delivers Internet2 to Marshall U. through OARnet Columbus, Ohio - January 29, 2010 - Marshall University students, faculty and staff members now have access to the nation's premier research and education network through a partnership with OARnet, Ohio's statewide research and education network. |
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TechColumbus names OARnet "Innovation Award" semifinalist Columbus, Ohio - December 15, 2009 - TechColumbus recently announced that the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) is a semifinalist for the 2009 TechColumbus Innovation Awards. OARnet is nominated in the Innovation in Non-Profit Service Delivery category. |
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Research seeks to improve service for users of next-generation networks Columbus, Ohio - October 6, 2009 - The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $287,000 to the Ohio Supercomputer Center and the Ohio Academic Resources Network to devise new, more effective techniques that will improve the performance of the next generation of computer networks. |
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OARnet, Nationwide Children’s project honored for its innovation Columbus, Ohio - August 17, 2009 - The Ohio Academic Resources Network and Nationwide Children’s Hospital Division of Neonatology recently received a Health Care Heroes Honorable Mention in Innovation Award for its high-definition telemedicine project from Columbus Business First. |
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Ohio to Lead Country in Statewide Cloud Computing Initiative Columbus, Ohio – June 10, 2009 - A statewide hardware platform will allow the University System of Ohio to avoid $2.2 million in costs needed to maintain separate hardware throughout the state, as well as reduce power consumption by 50 percent. read more |
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OARnet experts to present at Internet2 Spring Member Meeting Columbus, Ohio – April 27, 2009 - Staff members of the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) are sharing their valuable expertise with participants at the Internet2 Spring Member Meeting, April 27-29, 2009, in Arlington, Va. read more |
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OARnet's director of networking reappointed to advise Internet2 April 2, 2009 - Internet2 announced recently that Paul Schopis, OARnet's director of networking, was reappointed to their Architecture & Operations Advisory Council. read more |
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Center focused on global telehealth applications launches website March 18, 2009 -- The recently established Telehealth Video Resource
Center (TVRC)today officially launched a website to make the center's
services easily available. read more |
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Secure videoconferencing offers key to education, research, and savings February 5, 2009 -- A study funded by the Ohio Board of Regents produces a list of videoconferencing best practices for balancing security and quality. read more |
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February 4, 2009 -- Online video of President Obama's inaugural ceremony generated 8.2 gigabits-per-second of traffic over OARnet's fiber-optic backbone. read more |
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University System of Ohio Enters IT Licensing Agreement January 9, 2009 - Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut today announced the University System of Ohio has entered into an agreement with VMware, Inc. to launch a three-year purchasing aggregation initiative with the potential of saving Ohio colleges and universities more than $130 million. read more |
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November 14, 2008 -- OSC's remote instrumentation projects enable researchers to remotely share some of Ohio's most valuable scientific instruments. read more |
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OSU racing students receive Internet access at speedway August 18, 2008 -- Throughout Speed Week 2008, the Ohio State University Buckeye Bullet 2 team will be turning the pit area on the Bonneville Speedway into a temporary WiFi hot spot as they pursue the speed record for electric vehicles. read more |
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May 3, 2008 -- Thanks to the Connecting Rural Ohio Wireless Neighborhood Project Internet signals are now being broadcast into Crown City homes and businesses. read more |