CENIC Announces the Addition of Nortel Networks to Its Associates Program.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2001 The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1996 to provide high-performance, high-bandwidth networking services to California universities and research institutions. (CENIC CENIC Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California CENIC Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas (Cuba) ) announced today that Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony has joined its Associates program. Nortel Networks is a global leader in communications and Internet solutions for service providers and corporations. Through CENIC's Associates program, commercial research partners are able to collaborate with California's higher education community, which is renowned for its pivotal role in advancing today's commercial Internet in partnership with the federal government and private sector. Setting the stage for a new era of networking requires that same intensity and partnerships. "Nortel Networks has a strong track record in applying innovative technologies to boost the performance and reliability of today's Internet. CENIC's charter members are the architects of CalREN-2, an ultra wideband R&D network dedicated to research and education. CENIC looks forward to collaborating with Nortel Networks in building the next-step CalREN for California's research and education communities," said Thomas W. West, CENIC's president and executive director. "Nortel Networks is driving today's high-performance Internet to be more reliable, more powerful, more profitable and faster than ever before," stated Daniel Pitt, vice president, advanced technology investments, Nortel Networks. "Our collaboration with CENIC and its emerging Optical Network Initiative and the Digital California Project underscores Nortel Networks long-standing commitment to provide next generation, industry-leading solutions that advance the quality and economics of the global Internet, and expand the communication benefits for individuals and organizations worldwide." CENIC is a not-for-profit corporation formed by the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. , the California State University Enrollment  , Stanford University, the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , and the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission to facilitate and coordinate the deployment, development, and operation of a set of seamless and robust advanced network services. The CENIC Associates program offers qualified companies the opportunity to collaborate with CENIC in pursuit of the goal of providing the most advanced network services for research and education. Cisco Systems, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Pacific Bell are CENIC's Associate Partners; CommerceNet is an Associate Sponsor; and General Atomics, the National Marine Fisheries Service The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is a United States federal agency. A division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Commerce, NMFS is responsible for the stewardship and management of the nation's living marine and Raytheon are Associate Affiliates. CalREN-2 is the first project of CENIC, founded in 1997 by California's major research and academic universities. CalREN-2 performs at unprecedented speeds of over 1,000 times faster than the commercial Internet. CENIC operates CalREN-2 for qualified public and private sector institutions for research and learning purposes. CalREN-2 is California's segment of the national Internet2 initiative and is partially funded by the National Science Foundation. In the 2000-2001 fiscal year, the State of California provided funding for the Digital California Project, or DCP DCP - definitional constraint programming , which is CENIC's second project. The target of the DCP is the development of a cohesive and seamless high-speed statewide education network interconnecting K-12 schools and institutions of higher education in California. More information about CENIC and its Associates program can be found at www.cenic.org. For more information about Nortel Networks, visit www.nortelnetworks.com. Nortel Networks is a trademark of Nortel Networks. |
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