July 2003
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Welcome to our first issue!
Welcome to the first issue of the ORION Research and Discovery News. Here you will find a mix of brief news items about advanced networking in Ontario as well as research and education activities on the ORION network and other items of interest in the field of research, scientific innovation and collaboration in Ontario and abroad.
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ORION connection helps create one of world's top supercomputers
An agreement between ORION and the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) has created one of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
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Next-generation video conferencing to address the human factor
Next-generation video-conferencing and collaborative technologies will need to become more intuitive and people-friendly before they are adopted widely and reach their full potential, participants at a recent national workshop were told.
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$78M optical network nearing completion
When primary segments of the new $78 million ORION network became operational last month, no one was more satisfied than ORION's Project Director Sam Mokbel and his team of engineers.
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Local loop and connectivity upgrades on track
State-of-the-art optical and routing gear is already installed and operational in several Ontario cities only weeks after announcing an investment of $5.8 million in local loop and connectivity upgrade funding to several ORION user organizations.
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ORION to dramatically increase pace of forestry research
Creating a balanced ecological approach to forestry management requires increasingly sophisticated methods and tools for obtaining and analyzing multiple layers of information and in Thunder Bay a new tool is being tested to make it easier to work through these layers.
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