Summer 2010


ORION joins forces with leading educational media on-demand service
Exclusive to ORION-connected schools

ORION has joined forces with Learn360, a leading interactive, educational media on-demand service, to provide an enhanced user experience when accessing Learn360's educational content to ORION-connected schools across Ontario at a significant cost savings and enhanced quality.
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ORION launches Canada's first R&E backup storage service
ORION is confident that several Ontario colleges and universities will soon sign on to its new backup storage service, the first dedicated exclusively to research and education institutions in Canada.
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Findings demonstrate HPC essential to innovative research
A number of exciting research findings in fields such as astrophysics, biofuels and medicine were announced at the 2010 High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS) held recently at the University of Toronto.
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O3 as in-kind contribution for research grant applications
September, October and November are always busy months for faculty to complete funding applications for research and scholarly activities, and while summer has just arrived, it's not too soon to think about fall deadlines for grants.
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  • Migrating growing traffic to 10G links
  • ORION partners with ideaCity 2010
  • WEDnet expands to 200 sites on fibre
  • Video to consume most bandwidth in 2010
  • CANARIE brings underwater ocean observatory to museum
  • ORION at ABEL Summer Institute
  • Two more Ontario universitites sign on to eduroam
  • View solicited on Digital Economy
  • OCAD becomes OCADU
  • People News
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