http://www.oar.net The networking division of the Ohio Supercomputer Center has been helping Ohio’s colleges and universities reach their Internet goals since 1987. Few organizations can boast the bandwidth and level of service the OSC network offers its extended base of clients, from K-12 to colleges, hospitals to public television stations. en-us http://www.oar.net/notices Information on outages, planned maintenance and security advisories. http://www.oar.net/press/calendar.shtml Here you can see a listing of all our upcoming events, workshops and training sessions. http://www.oar.net/press/2009/innovation.shtml 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. August 17, 2009 http://www.oar.net/press/2009/innovation.shtml Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut today announced the implementation of a hardware platform that will advance the development of an integrated technology infrastructure as outlined in the 10-year Strategic Plan for Higher Education and lead the country in cloud computing on a statewide level as a higher education system. June 10, 2009 http://www.oar.net/press/2009/internet2_spring.shtml 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. April 27, 2009 http://www.oar.net/press/2009/schopis.shtml Internet2 announced recently that Paul Schopis, OARnet's director of networking, was reappointed to their Architecture & Operations Advisory Council. April 2, 2009 http://www.oar.net/press/2009/tvrc.shtml The recently established Telehealth Video Resource Center (TVRC) today officially launched a website to make the center's videoconferencing services easily available to physicians and healthcare education professionals worldwide. March 18, 2009 http://www.oar.net/press/2009/secure.shtml Some technologists see a day in the not-so-distant future when advances in videoconferencing will allow the quickly maturing technology to greatly enhance distance education, boost research collaboration and reduce travel and meeting costs. February 5, 2009 http://www.oar.net/press/2009/inauguration.shtml Ohio computer users helped make President Barack Obama's inauguration the most watched streaming video event in the Internet's history, pushing network traffic over the state's fiber-optic backbone to more than 8.1 gigabits – or 8.1 billion bits of digital information – per second. February 4, 2009 http://www.oar.net/press/2009/vmware.shtml 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 the University System of Ohio Virtualization Program, a three-year purchasing aggregation initiative with the potential of saving Ohio colleges and universities more than $130 million. January 9, 2009 http://www.oar.net/press/2008/cyberinfrastructure.shtml Ohio's academic and industrial researchers now can share some of the state's most valuable and expensive scientific instruments via the Internet, thanks to cyberinfrastructure tools developed by engineers and researchers at OARnet. November 14, 2008 http://www.oar.net/press/2008/speedway.shtml 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. August 18, 2008