Monterey Bay welcomes high-speed network.There's a new high-speed network in Monterey Bay, Calif., and it is open to the entire community. With much pride and fanfare, California State Monterey Bay launched a high-speed network this spring that will not only help its students and faculty, but the entire municipality MUNICIPALITY. The body of officers, taken collectively, belonging to a city, who are appointed to manage its affairs and defend its interests. . Cal State's Networked University project provides a gigabyte One billion bytes. Also GB, Gbyte and G-byte. See giga and space/time. (unit) gigabyte - 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes. Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons). See prefix. of connectivity to a number of users in the area, including staff at 30 other research institutions on the peninsula, the K-12 school district, employees at city hall, EMS workers, and several hundred area nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. agencies. The new network, which uses Cisco technology, replaces other technology that first linked all the institutions two years ago. The network allows for the university and all related agencies to share data more quickly, along with rich media and video clips A short video presentation. . The latter is important to Cal State's service learning initiatives. Many students earn academic credits by interning at local social service agencies, maritime research centers and environmental organizations, explains Gil Gonzales, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Cat State Monterey. Through the network they can provide online training to other staffers and share research from various locations. Gonzales employs an engineer who dedicates his time to network operations. Technically, the town charges users a nominal fee to use the high-speed network. The town, in turn, remits the dues to Cal State Monterey Bay. In all, the university will receive $240,000 annually for providing the network. In addition to helping the locals, the university's high bandwidth has been called upon to assist other maritime research projects. Recently, for example, the Mystic Mystic, rivers, United States Mystic. 1 River, c.10 mi (16 km) long, rising in SE Conn. and flowing S past Old Mystic and Mystic villages to the Long Island Sound. Mystic Seaport, a maritime museum, is at its mouth. 2 River, c. Aquarium in Mystic, Conn., needed 10 megabytes of constant bit rate service to broadcast a compressed, full-motion research video, says Gonzales. The city and Cat State gave the OK for the aquarium to piggyback piggyback 1. A broker trading in his or her personal account after trading in the same security for a customer. The broker may believe the customer has access to privileged information that will cause the transaction to be profitable. 2. on the network, allowing the maritime research facility to push the rich media project through the network at a low cost. |
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