October 2003
ORION and CA*net 4 host Advanced Networking Days
Most Ontario colleges and universities are now connecting to the ORION network – a leading gigabit R&E optical networks dedicated exclusively to research and education. For many researchers and educators, ORION is bringing a new capacity for high-speed collaboration over a gigabit network to their institution for the very first time.
As a result, ORION and CANARIE - Canada's national research and innovation network have joined forces to stage ORION-CA*net 4 Advanced Networking Days - a series of workshops and seminars designed to illustrate how this new infrastructure can support collaborative research and education activities.
Presentations from researchers and educators who are already taking advantage of advanced networking and collaboration technologies will be featured, including speakers from ORION and CANARIE.
Participants will include researchers and educators from Ontario universities, colleges, teaching hospitals, public sector research labs and other users that are now connecting to the ORION network, and from institutions that are contemplating joining Ontario’s advanced networking community.
One of the topics to be presented is the CANARIE’s new CA*net 4 Advanced Applications Program, announced last week, which provides $4 million in funding for collaborative research projects.
“We aim to raise awareness of this program opportunity among Ontario institutions that are connecting to ORION,” says Phil Baker, President and CEO. “We want to make sure that Ontario institutions or organizations submit innovative project proposals that will take advantage of ORION and CA*net 4 connectivity.”
Several events have been scheduled throughout Ontario in November and December 2003. The sessions will kick off in Sudbury at Laurentian University on Nov. 13, during Laurentian’s annual Research Awareness Week.
Other events are scheduled for York University, MacMaster University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Toronto, and Queens University. More sessions are planned for other cities in January and February 2004.
For more information, visit the ORION-CA*net 4 Advanced Network Days web site at http://www.orion.on.ca/orioncanet4days.html.
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