CENIC Provides Essential Funding for ``Last Mile'' Relief to 28 California School Districts.Business Editors/Education Writers LOS ALAMITOS Los Alamitos (lôs ăləmē`təs, lŏs), city (1990 pop. 11,676), Orange co., NE of Long Beach, S Calif., in a suburban area; inc. 1960. Los Alamitos Racetrack and U.S. military installations are nearby. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2002 In an effort to defray de·fray tr.v. de·frayed, de·fray·ing, de·frays To undertake the payment of (costs or expenses); pay. [French défrayer, from Old French desfrayer : des-, the cost to K-12 schools and districts for a high-bandwidth "last mile" connection to the CalREN-DC network, 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) ) has announced its intent to make awards totaling $1.4 million to 28 school districts. The awards will be used to establish or extend school networks to connect to the CalREN-DC network and the commodity Internet at speeds of T-1 or better. Beginning in 2001, the State launched the Digital California Project (DCP DCP - definitional constraint programming ) by providing funding to extend CENIC's ultra broadband CalREN network infrastructure to all 58 counties in California The U.S. state of California is divided into fifty-eight counties. Counties are responsible for all elections, property-tax collection, maintenance of public records such as deeds, and local-level courts within their borders, as well as providing law enforcement (through the county to enable the K-12 public schools to connect. The goal of DCP is to help teachers and students gain access to a rich array of learning and information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. on the network. The CENIC "last mile" program was announced in November 2001. It is one effort to address the major challenge of ensuring that all the school sites throughout California have high bandwidth connectivity, T-1 or better, to CalREN-DC and the commodity Internet. A study, soon to be released by CENIC, found that over 23 percent of California's nearly 9000 school sites lack this level of connectivity, generally accepted as necessary to take full advantage of on-line resources in the 21st century. CENIC's "last mile" grants to the 28 school districts will help defray the expenses associated with network connection from these school districts and schools to one of the 80 county-based node sites on CalREN-DC. The funding for this program comes from CENIC's participation in the California Teleconnect Fund and the federal E-Rate program. CENIC received more than 120 applications, and with the help of volunteer reviewers throughout the State's K-12 community, narrowed the field to 62 finalists. The DCP Program Steering Committee steer·ing committee n. A committee that sets agendas and schedules of business, as for a legislative body or other assemblage. steering committee Noun approved 28 awards. Tom West, CENIC's president, noted that "having read all 28 proposals recommended by the evaluation committee, I am excited about the magnitude of impact this modest investment will make. Over 200,000 students at nearly 200 sites will benefit." "Through its 'last mile' program, CENIC will provide school districts with the resources to overcome the final hurdle in establishing or extending their network connectivity to CalREN-DC and the commodity Internet. However, this is just the beginning. While this program cannot solve the 'last mile' challenge for all schools in California, it can help," said Dave Meaney, the DCP's Program Steering Committee vice-chair and County Superintendent, Sacramento County. The funds will allow each school district to select the best solution to fit their specific last mile challenges -- some will build microwave systems, some will install fiber connections, and some will pay telecommunications providers for higher bandwidth connection to CalREN-DC. In the case of Lake County all 19 school sites will be able to connect at T-1 as a result of its grant. Public K-12 school systems and county offices of education were eligible for this first-of-a-kind award program. The first round of funding will be made available to the awardees in June 2002. This will enable the schools to implement their solutions over the summer months. Last mile funding is critical to enable schools and districts to connect at T-1 or better to the nearest CalREN-DC nodes, i.e., the central access sites for high-capacity connectivity. This enriched connectivity will provide teachers and students access to newly- emerging instructional and learning resource on CalREN-DC and the commodity Internet. Award recipients are: -0-
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Big Pine Unified School District Big Pine Inyo
Bishop Joint Union High School District Bishop Inyo
Borrego Springs Unified School District Borrego San Diego
Springs
Capistrano Unified School District San Juan Orange
Capistrano
Desert Sands Unified School District La Quinta Riverside
Franklin McKinley School District San Jose Santa Clara
Fullerton Joint Union Fullerton Orange
High School District
Gazelle Union Elementary School District Gazelle Siskiyou
Gilroy Unified School District Gilroy Santa Clara
Indian Diggings Somerset El Dorado
Inyo County Office of Education, Independence Inyo
Jill Kinmont Boothe School
Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Bakersfield Kern
Erwin Owens High School
Kings River, Hardwick Union Hanford Kings
School District
Lake County All 19 Schools Various Lake
Martinez Unified School District Martinez Contra Costa
Mono COE, Benton and Coleville Schools Bridgeport Mono
Montebello Unified School District Montebello Los Angeles
Mulberry Elementary School District Brawley Imperial
Newport Mesa Unified School District Costa Mesa Orange
Oakland Unified School District Oakland Alameda
Oroville Union High School District Oroville Butte
Pleasant Valley Joint Union San Miguel San Luis
Elementary School District Obispo
Poway Unified School District Poway San Diego
Roseville Joint Union Roseville Placer
High School District
Seeley Union School District Seeley Imperial
Soledad Unified School District Soledad Monterey
Val Verde Perris Riverside
West Contra Costa Unified School District Richmond Contra Costa
CENIC is a not-for-profit corporation A not-for-profit corporation is a corporation created by statute, government or judicial authority that is not intended to provide a profit to the owners or members. A corporation that is organized to provide profits to its owners or members is a 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 Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , 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 “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation).Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , 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 , SBC/Pacific Bell and the University and Community College System of Nevada are CENIC's Associate Partners. 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 1000 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 (DCP), which is CENIC's second project. The target of the DCP is the development of a cohesive cohesive, n the capability to cohere or stick together to form a mass. and seamless high-speed statewide education network interconnecting K-12 schools and institutions of higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. in California. More information about CENIC and its Associates program can be found at www.cenic.org. |
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