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Looking Back at the InCommon Shibboleth Workshop, Hosted by OARnet and OhioLINK

By on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 3:15pm (updated Monday, July 20, 2015 - 11:25am)
Shibboleth Logo

On Thursday and Friday, June 11-12, the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) welcomed 45 technologists representing colleges and universities from Ohio and other states who arrived here to study an important emerging security technology. These systems administrators, identity managers and developers packed the BALE Theater and Conference Room to take part in the InCommon Shibboleth Workshop [https://www.incommon.org/shibtraining/] and learn how to implement federated identity management software.

Deployment of Quality of Service (aka QoS) on the OARnet Backbone

By on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 12:45pm (updated Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 1:09pm)

Ed.—In June 2014, OARnet and the State of Ohio announced an agreement to have OARnet provide the network backbone for the State and its various agencies. By moving to OARnet’s 100 Gigabit-per-second backbone, the State is able to streamline its services, while K-12, Higher Education and all other client sectors, including the state, will benefit from increased aggregate purchasing power.

March 14: A Day as American as Mathematical Pi

By on Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 2:15pm (updated Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 1:36pm)
Pi image from cliparts.co

This Saturday, March 14, otherwise denoted as 3.14, the mathematically minded people of the world will celebrate Pi Day, in honor of the famously irrational number calculated by dividing the circumference of a circle by its diameter: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971... (the digits never end or repeat in any known way).

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