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Ohio researcher garners $287k DOE grant to devise better techniques for measuring, managing network traffic (Jun 18, 2012)
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $287,000 to OSC and OARnet to devise new, more effective techniques that will improve the performance of computer networks  

Columbus, Ohio (October 6, 2009) - The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $287,000 to the Ohio Supercomputer Center and the Ohio Academic Resources Network to devise new, more effective techniques that will improve the performance of the next generation of computer networks.

Prasad Calyam,... Read more

Megaconference VII Set For December 1 (Jun 18, 2012)
Every continent on Earth to participate

Columbus, Ohio -  The Ohio Supercomputer Center, in conjunction with The Ohio State University and Internet2, will jointly host the seventh annual Megaconference December 1, 2005. Megaconference is the world's largest simultaneous connection of Internet videoconferencing communication devices.

Megaconference VII begins at 7:00 a.m. EST, and will continue throughout the day until 11:30 p.m. EST. Representatives... Read more

Ohio Schools Become Founding Members of State's Third Frontier Network (Jun 18, 2012)
Ohio SchoolNet Commission and Ohio Department of Education have joined Third Frontier Network as founding members of nation's most advanced statewide fiber optic service

 

Columbus, Ohio (July 14, 2003) - The Ohio SchoolNet Commission and the Ohio Department of Education have joined the Third Frontier Network as founding members of the nation’s most advanced statewide fiber optic service for education and research.

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CALL TO PARTICIPATE Collaboration and Visualization Over the Network (Jun 18, 2012)
WHAT: The Ohio Supercomputer Center and Wright State University are co-sponsoring a one-day conference on November 10, 1997 on the topics of network applications for collaboration, visualization, and virtual reality.

WHAT: The Ohio Supercomputer Center and Wright State University are co-sponsoring a one-day conference on November 10, 1997 on the topics of network applications for collaboration,... Read more

World's First Gigaconference Pushes Videoconference Equipment Limits (Jun 18, 2012)
The world' first Gigaconference videoconferencing event opened at noon EST today to showcase the use of high-end, high-performance videoconferencing equipment.  

Columbus, Ohio  (August 5, 2005) - The world' first Gigaconference videoconferencing event opened at noon EST today to showcase the use of high-end, high-performance videoconferencing equipment. The Internet2 Commons and Codian Corp are sponsoring the event.... Read more

OARnet Calendar Archive (Jun 18, 2012)
  OARnet Calendar

July 19-23, 2009
Internet2 Joint Techs Meeting
Indianapolis, Indiana

Details: Joint Techs -- an international conference of networking engineers featuring presentations, Birds-of-a-Feather meetings and demonstrations of state-of-the-art high-performance networking technologies.
http://jointtechs.es.net/

July 21, 2009
Board of Regents... Read more

FAQs (Jun 18, 2012)
 
  1. What is the fundamental difference between the previous network and OARnet?
  2. How is industry involved with OARnet and the network?
  3. What are some examples of enhanced research projects via OARnet?
  4. What organizations qualify for connecting to the network?
  5. What types of applications does the network support?... Read more
Virtualization with VMware (Jun 18, 2012)

Through the University System of Ohio virtualization program, you can purchase VMware software licenses and support at significantly reduced prices.

In the first 18 months of operation, the total VMware savings equaled $44.9 million. By the end of 2012, the total savings are projected to tally $100 million.

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Service Desk Policies (Jun 18, 2012)
These policies are intended to clearly communicate to our clients our policies about the wide variety of OARnet services. As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the OARnet support center at support@oar.net.

 

Listed Contacts

The Service Desk can only accept configuration changes from people on our client contact lists. Configuration changes include any change that could adversely affect a client's... Read more

H.323 Beacon Tool Project Documentation (Jun 18, 2012)
Publications:

Prasad Calyam, Dima Krymskiy, Mukundan Sridharan, Paul Schopis, "TBI: End-to-End Network Performance Measurement Testbed for Empirical-bottleneck Detection", IEEE TRIDENTCOM, 2005. [pdf]

  • P. Calyam, W. Mandrawa, M. Sridharan, A. Khan, P. Schopis, "H.323 Beacon: An H.323 application related end-to-end performance troubleshooting tool", Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Network... Read more

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