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The national infrastructure today is not uniform and does not reach all states, nor does it reach community colleges, which are feeders into four-year programs. We must enable institutions in all 50 states to have high-speed capacity. The emphasis in any national plan must be on spreading capacity to the most underserved communities. This should include strategies to make the cloud-based data storage systems usable and affordable.
– Vint Cerf, Vice President, and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
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R&E infrastructure is more than just broadband networks. It also includes software, tools, and security resources, and it provides access to computational resources and data, along with the necessary human expertise to integrate and use these resources for innovation, discovery, and national competitiveness. R&E infrastructure is a critical component of a national broadband plan. It complements the focus on universal access by providing a foundation for innovation, discovery, and national competitiveness. Our national story is incomplete when diverse human potential is untapped and competitive threats unmet. Federal investment in R&E infrastructure and technology is a national imperative. Connecting every institution, empowering untapped potential, and rising to competitive challenges is possible by funding a national program of coherent, comprehensive, and highly integrated research infrastructure initiatives.
This session will review the federal and state broadband funding opportunities presented by the BEAD program, Middle Mile program, Digital Equity Act, Connecting Minority Communities program, and Treasury Department Capital Project Fund. A lot will depend on the 5-year plans that each state will have to develop and file with NTIA before securing their funding. We will discuss what states should include in their plans to meet NTIA's criteria, how to involve anchor institutions in the plan, and how to protect against efforts by incumbent providers to limit the distribution of funding. Broadband mapping and challenging the FCC's broadband maps will also be critical. The session will share the latest information on state legislative actions of interest on broadband policy and opportunities in the upcoming legislative cycle. We will also discuss the growing trend of schools deploying their own wireless networks to reach unserved students and households.
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The plenary session speakers will be available at tables in the front of the Main Ballroom to answer your questions and discuss their presentations.
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Engage with CENIC engineers. Staff from the Network Operations Center, Core Engineering, and Security will be available to answer any questions that you may have about CalREN.
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Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, has existed for the past ten years with the goal of creating high-quality, trustworthy cyberinfrastructure to support high-quality, trustworthy science.
The Trusted CI Framework, a product of Trusted CI, is a tool to help organizations establish cybersecurity programs. In response to an abundance of cybersecurity, guidance focused narrowly on security controls, Trusted CI set out to develop a framework that would empower organizations to confront their cybersecurity challenges from a mission-oriented and full organizational lifecycle perspective. Within Trusted CI’s mission is to lead the development of an NSF Cybersecurity Ecosystem that enables trustworthy science, the Framework fills a gap in emphasizing these programmatic fundamentals. The Trusted CI Framework is a resource to help organizations establish and refine their cybersecurity programs. It is the product of Trusted CI’s many years of accumulated experience conducting cybersecurity research, training, assessments, consultations, and collaborating closely with the research community.
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Now that the Framework Implementation Guide (FIG) has also been published, Trusted CI’s aim is to help facilitate Framework adoption and implementation across the broader community. To address this challenge, Trusted CI launched the "cohort" approach, where representatives from multiple NSF Major Facilities participated in a group engagement with Trusted CI focused on the adoption and implementation of the Framework. During the first half of 2022, Trusted CI engaged with six NSF Major Facilities committed to adopting and implementing the Trusted CI Framework. Members of the cohort worked closely with Trusted CI staff through a series of workshops enabling Framework adoption. The goal at the end of the engagement period is for each cohort member to adopt the Trusted CI Framework and to emerge possessing a validated assessment of their cybersecurity program along with a strategic plan detailing their path to fully implement the Framework. The six major facilities included in this initial cohort included: Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE), Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab), National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), National Solar Observatory (NSO), and Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI).
This presentation aims to continue facilitating broader Framework adoption by the community. It does so by first discussing what the Trusted CI Framework and Framework Implementation Guide are and then discussing the experiences of the six NSF Major Facilities as they adopted the framework.
Additional Information on the Trusted CI Framework: https://www.trustedci.org/fram...
The Science DMZ has been broadly deployed in a wide range of R&E environments, from small sites to major universities and from individual experiments to national laboratories. While the Science DMZ is still considered best practice for cyberinfrastructure supporting data-intensive science, the world continues to change. Streaming workflows, the focus on zero trust security architecture, and higher-level services to enhance scientific productivity are all part of the Science DMZ going forward. This talk will cover the evolution and strategic future of the Science DMZ, including the incorporation of new technologies, expanded DTN capabilities, and zero-trust security in a Science DMZ context.
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During disasters such as wildfires and the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and libraries have effectively provided much-needed disaster services to assist their communities due to their CalREN connections. Library facilities have served as community technology centers where victims of wildfires can connect with family members and friends, access relief fund paperwork and assistance, file claims, and get information. They have served as places for students to access the Internet so they may participate in online learning. Schools have quickly pivoted and been able to nimbly implement effective online learning environments. We will hear from school and library leaders about how their organizations responded to disaster using their CalREN connection.
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Last year, during a wildfire in the unincorporated community of Valley Center, the Red Cross opened a center for the community. Still, many people flocked to the local library instead because they knew the library had reliable Wi-Fi. Hear about how San Diego County Library provided that service and how they have made their backcountry libraries more resilient with the addition of automatic switching diesel-powered generators. Also, hear about how the library has become a preferred partner to the SDG&E Resource Centers during Planned Public Safety Power Shutoffs.
El Dorado County Library deployed a Wi-Fi project that enabled students to use Wi-Fi in the library branch parking lots during the pandemic and used it inside the library to hold temporary school during the Caldor Fire.
AT&T believes connectivity matters. Education is an engine for innovation and innovation always requires an impetus. The pandemic has not only redefined connectivity and our need for it, but it has also accelerated the digitization of our society. It has ignited new innovations and rapid advancement in technologies, like 5G.
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5G is the next generation of network connectivity. It will power our digital, data-driven future, and for AT&T, 5G isn’t just about speed—it’s about being transformational. Education has an important leadership role in all of this… today and well into the future.
In addition to benefiting industries that drive our economy and society at large, these innovations also support the mission and operational goals of our education partners. The possibilities are endless.
Because of their extensive geographic footprint, vast infrastructure, extensive technical capacity, and deep ties to surrounding communities, higher education institutions can play an important role in supporting broadband infrastructure development and adoption initiatives. This panel explores opportunities for the University of California, California State Universities, and Community Colleges to support the expansion of affordable, high-quality, and equitable broadband access throughout the state.
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The panel will address four primary strategies, including (1) the use of innovative networking technologies (e.g., wireless mesh networks) to extend access to faculty, staff, students, and surrounding communities; (2) opportunities to streamline policies and procedures to improve broadband infrastructure and access; (3) innovative communications and outreach models to encourage broadband adoption; and (4) opportunities to form partnerships with the public and private sectors to leverage assets and funding resources.
This session will explore the history and place of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) in the research and education network community in America. The session will focus on the past and present participation in advanced networking by these institutions, land grant institutions, and predominately white institutions, and suggest strategies for addressing inequities.
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eduroam is a secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community that allows students, researchers, and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across campus and when visiting other participating institutions. With a vision to provide eduroam in nearly every corner of their state, Utah’s Education and Telehealth Network (UETN) implemented eduroam well beyond their higher ed community. Join us at this session to learn about UETN’s journey to provide connectivity via eduroam at libraries, K-12 school districts, numerous state parks, and even on buses. UETN will share its implementation, operations, successes, lessons learned, and future plans. Bring your questions to this interactive panel session.
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Reliable, high-speed connectivity is essential for high-end research and innovation, but also foundational for teaching, learning, and student success. Research, like education itself, is increasingly distributed and institutions need the ability to manage these large data sets in a way that’s secure and readily available. Learn how Lumen is working with state organizations and higher education institutions nationwide to bring connectivity to the underserved, and power innovation at colleges and universities.
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The GetConnnected CA effort is focused on spreading the word about the Affordable Connectivity Program which provides qualified individuals with subsidized connectivity. This session will focus on ways higher education institutions and educational institutions from other segments can be a part of this effort. Come join this roundtable conversation and learn more.
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My library has a gigabit connection. Now what? Going Gig can be a challenge for California public libraries. Everything from limited technical staff to insufficient budgets presents challenges. Join an interactive discussion with the Sacramento Public Library and others to learn how they upgraded their legacy network infrastructure to support one- to 10-gigabit connectivity and how they plan to add higher capacity in the future.
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AmLight-ExP uses a hybrid network strategy combining the use of optical spectrum and leased capacity for a reliable, leading-edge infrastructure for research and education.
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AmLight has a long history of supporting astronomy. The Vera Rubin Observatory is a large-aperture, wide-field, ground-based optical telescope located on Cerro Pachón in Chile that starts operations in 2023. Its mission is a 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) that will deliver a 500-petabyte set of images and data products that will address pressing questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and the objects in it. The 8.4-meter telescope will take a picture of the southern sky every 27 seconds and produce 13 Gigabyte data which must be transferred to the U.S. Data Facility at SLAC, in Menlo Park, CA, within 5 seconds, inside the 27-second transfer window.
This presentation will cover the techniques employed by the AmLight-ExP consortium of multiple network operators and technologies to meet the mission needs. Provision coordination and operation of this multi-domain network are complex, especially when addressing inter-domain path redundancy. The AmLight team is extending the network from Boca Raton, FL, to Atlanta, GA, to meet ESnet for data transfer to the US data facility at SLAC in CA.
The pandemic created opportunities for libraries to obtain subsidized hotspots through federal, state, and local programs. When the subsidies expire, libraries will need to find other resources to continue this program now that library patrons have come to expect them. If it becomes necessary to discontinue this service, libraries must find ways to communicate this change to patrons. Join this panel discussion to learn how libraries are planning for this challenge and other challenges brought about by the pandemic.
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Distributed Denial of Service attacks continue to be a severe threat to the Internet and have been evolving both in traffic volume and sophistication. While many attack detection approaches exist, few of them provide easily interpretable and actionable network-level signatures.
Further, most tools are either not scalable or are prohibitively expensive and thus are not broadly available to the network operator community.
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We bridge this gap by proposing AMON-SENSS, an open-source system for scalable, accurate DDoS detection and signature generation in large networks. AMON-SENSS employs hash-based binning with multiple bin layers for scalability, observes traffic at multiple granularities, and deploys traffic volume and asymmetry change-point detection techniques to identify attacks.
It proactively devises network-level attack signatures, which can be used to filter attack traffic.
We evaluate AMON-SENSS against two commercial defense systems, using 37 days of real traffic from a mid-size Internet Service Provider (ISP). We find that our proposed approach exhibits superior performance in terms of accuracy, detection timeliness, and network signature quality over these commercial alternatives. AMON-SENSS is deployable today; it is free and requires no hardware or routing changes.
This session will explain the design of AMON-SENSS, how it can be obtained and installed, and offer details of our evaluation.
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A Gigabit Or Bust!
If we have learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic about broadband, it is that equitable access is now a social determinant of health, education, work, and economic security. Our homes became our schools, our workplaces, and our clinics via remote education, remote work, and telehealth. It is now time to renew and redouble our efforts towards gigabit broadband for all Californians at home, as well as at school and work. The State of California has launched the most ambitious state broadband equity effort ever, a $6 billion dollar initiative.
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How do we ensure that we meet the State’s ambitious goals when we know that:
One in four households with school-aged children in California does not have a desktop or laptop computer and a high-speed Internet connection. These households were already significantly disadvantaged, and the pandemic only exacerbated inequities. This represents about 870,000 families whose children are likely to fall behind in educational attainment, who cannot access telehealth, and who lack remote access to the workplace.
Current benchmarks for what constitutes broadband are not adequate. Broadband standards must recognize that all household members were impacted by stay-at-home orders, and those family members will continue to be engaged in concurrent use of interactive video, resources in the cloud, and other bandwidth-intensive applications. Even when the emergency of the pandemic lifts, many facets of our lives will have been permanently altered, and broadband has now become as essential as other fundamental utilities like electricity and clean water.
One of the great California historians, the late Kenneth Starr, noted that one of the sustained qualities of our state is “the hope of a great community — a place, a society, in which the best possibilities of the American experiment can bet struggled for and sometimes achieved.” Broadband is now a stepping stone on this path towards a future of quality education, healthcare, meaningful employment, and prosperity. In California shorthand, “A Gigabit or Bust!"
These distinguished panelists will discuss the complexities of broadband equity from their various vantage points and via their engagements across the many facets of California’s historic broadband initiative.
The plenary session speakers will be available at tables in the front of the Main Ballroom to answer your questions and discuss their presentations.
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The CENIC distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation services (DMS) have been active since the summer of 2020. CENIC DMS administrators will provide updates on the types and volumes of attacks seen, and panelists will share their experiences with this solution.
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Nautilus is a 250-node, 20-campus, highly distributed, centrally-managed computer cluster mainly serving researchers’ advanced GPU needs. Launched by five NSF CISE awards to UC San Diego (1541349, 1730158, 2112167, 2100237, and 2120019), Nautilus features 1,000 GPUs, 10,000 CPU cores, and 9 PB of nationally distributed fast storage, including 100s of researcher-added GPU nodes. Researchers on 30 campuses run software in containers, orchestrated by Kubernetes, bursting from their laptop environments to dozens or 100s of GPUs at a time. Nautilus exploits the Science DMZs previously built with NSF funding on over 100 US campuses. Crucially, campuses contribute power, rack space, and 10-100G networking for Nautilus nodes.
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There are three keys to Nautilus’s success: its capability scales linearly with cost at any given time, it scales exponentially at fixed cost given time, and the human support effort scales roughly logarithmically with capacity.
Using Nautilus’ detailed measurements of performance, researchers learn to optimize resources, leading to competitive access to national resources like the Open Science Grid, NSF’s supercomputers, NSF’s Cloudbank, or costly commercial clouds by first writing and optimizing their code on Nautilus.
Researchers benefit from extensive shared JupyterHub workflows and open-source software. They use Matrix, Nautilus’ online social media platform, to receive and give support and share techniques while building a national online community that is easy to join and used for sharing code, data, and results. Efforts are well underway to build an alternate reality digital twin of Nautilus to monitor performance and direct remote hands-on hardware maintenance.
Esports is a burgeoning entertainment industry with audiences that rival those of traditional professional sports. Still, many educational institutions are reluctant to embrace esports as a productive educational pursuit often due to fears of toxicity, promoting violence, and excessive screen time. Scholastic esports, however, provides a way to counteract these issues by providing a positive, controlled environment in which students can build positive relationships, learn the business, technical, and production aspects of esports, and explore the multitude of curricular connections that esports can provide. Esports meets today's learners wherever they are and connects them to myriad learning and job opportunities. This session will inform participants about the work the Riverside County Office of Education and the California State University, San Bernardino are doing to promote equitable access to scholastic esports and to fully exploit the learning potential of this popular and exciting activity.
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High-performance data transfer is a critical enabler of data-intensive science. Following a successful effort to establish routine performance levels in excess of 1 Petabyte (PB) per week between production Data Transfer Node (DTN) clusters at four supercomputer centers, ESnet, the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), and Globus have organized the Data Mobility Exhibition (DME). The DME demonstrates data transfer capabilities between campus DTNs and national facilities, provides a collaborative environment for improving data transfer performance for campus DTNs, and data mobility scorecard to baseline performance of campus data architectures. This talk will describe the DME, progress made to date, and the benefits of participation for interested campuses.
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In this session we will look at the adoption of AIOps, indoor location, and CBRS/P5G in higher education to improve the mobile experience of students and faculty on campus.
The convergence of public and private wireless with indoor location enables a superior on-campus mobile experience. Further, AIOps is enabling IT teams to move from a paradigm of managing network elements to one of managing the client to cloud experience while reducing the number of support calls and the time to resolution.
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CENIC’s Technical Advisory Councils (TACs) provide technical review and recommendations on infrastructure issues relating to the California Research & Education Network (CalREN) as requested by the CENIC board of directors. TACs are made up of interested members of the CalREN community who work closely on network design, hardware, interoperability issues, performance management, and network research priorities.
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The two TACs are meeting jointly at CENIC 2022.
CalREN-TAC: Advises on CENIC's network focusing on connectivity for all members, reaching new members, and providing high-quality network services for faculty, staff, students, researchers, patrons, and patients in member institutions. This TAC is the result of the merger of the HPR-TAC and DC-TAC and is the successor to both.
CalREN-SEC TAC: Advises on network security systems, tools, and techniques as part of the CalREN network and related infrastructure, as well as on data privacy issues related to CalREN and common to CENIC associates.
If you are a member of one of these TACs or would like to join, please grab some lunch at the buffet and join us.
Join us as we discuss how Pasadena City College began its journey to an entirely cloud-based phone system with WebEx Calling. We will discuss the major benefits of moving to the cloud-like answering business calls from home or on the road, to enable hybrid work. We will also discuss the evaluation and RFP process, pros and cons, and lessons learned so far.
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XR learning allows people direct experience of events, historical periods, and other material in an immersive environment. Understanding diversity, equity, and social justice are enhanced by personally experiencing implicit biases. These experiences may change negative interpersonal attitudes and thus represent a powerful tool for exploring such fundamental psychological and societal phenomena.
The XR Equity & Diversity Playbook was constructed for libraries to explore how to use VR and discuss equity and diversity through an “immersive experience.” Virtual Reality is an immersive medium through which one can experience how it is to ‘walk’ in another person’s shoes or ‘see’ through their eyes. Therefore, it is a perfect medium to build empathy and create understanding between diverse people and cultures.
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Using virtual reality, learners can witness the world through a blind person’s eyes in Notes on Blindness or understand the hurdles an African American person would encounter in America in the 1960s in Traveling While Black. They can be immersed in the modern racial justice movement in In Protest, get inside the mind of someone who has mental health issues in Depression and uncover the story of a wrongfully convicted man in Send Me Home. Stories of hope, perseverance, and dignity of the human spirit abound in virtual reality.
The tools for creating XR are available to create immersive experiences. In this project at the Marin City Free Library, students were taught XR Core Craft skills in a culturally relevant project examining diversity and equity. Students created multi-media experiences of the Marin City’s African-American workers in the Marin Shipyards during WWII. The project had three separate tracks: Immersive Storytelling, Music, and VR modeling.
Youth created an XR experience based on historical research of African Americans working in the MARINSHIP Boatyard while living in Marin City during WWII. They wrote and produced six hip-hop songs and created an immersive 3D replica of the WWII Shipyard and Marin City home.
A video was produced about the CREI project featuring Chantel Walker, the research of Yolo and Palos Verdes Libraries staff, and the soundtrack and media from Marin City A Way Out of No Way immersive media program.
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How do planetariums and NASA use high-speed broadband to share high-resolution imagery of objects in our solar system? Come to this session to hear about how Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences partners with other planetariums to showcase planetary exploration. A live open-source software demonstration will showcase Mercury, Ceres, the Moon, Mars, and Venus, connecting attendees with experts from NASA’s Ames Research Center and the American Museum of Natural History.
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More than $1 Billion from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (IIJA) will be Invested to increase access to high-speed broadband for people living in small towns across the nation. The USDA ReConnect Program Round 4 opens for applications on September 6, 2022, and will close on November 2, 2022. Don’t miss the opportunities for funding in this rural broadband program.
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CENIC began sending targeted network announcements in April 2022. The CENIC community has heavily requested this feature. How was it finally implemented? Join this session to hear from CENIC software, systems, and network engineers about our journey to create a new database. We’ll discuss how we designed this relational database and built its web UI, stood up the infrastructure to support it, and migrated over 20 years of circuit and customer information into the database.
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One of the adaptations to the COVID19 pandemic was expanding anytime/anywhere health services to support students from childhood to adolescence. With the rise of telehealth and wellness centers across California schools, students can receive much-needed services to support their individual needs even if no local services are available. Districts and schools connected to the CENIC network can now provide personalized, video-enabled telehealth to students who are at risk and need intervention. Hear from Dr. Faris Sabbah, County Superintendent of Schools and chair of the board of the largest FQHC in Santa Cruz County, as he moderates a panel of partners who have been on the front lines of these programs and the vision to make telehealth-enabled wellness centers ubiquitous across our TK-12 school systems.
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How do you talk to the public about the value of your Internet connection? Compared to the academic space, public libraries have a different set of users and a different set of use cases for the CENIC network. In this session, we will discuss why Internet speeds are important, the surprising hurdles encountered, and how to make the case to any person on the street that universally accessible, high-speed connectivity is valuable to them. This session will transition to a larger group discussion about how the public has seen Internet connectivity at the public library and how to understand and adapt your connection to fit the needs of your community.
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We present research findings to spotlight the digital equity gaps in K-12 education. We will (1) show the changes in digital access and equity among California students from spring 2020 to spring 2021 and (2) discuss the role of federal investments, including the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB)/Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF), in closing the digital equity gaps (3) showcase high-impact local innovations and (4) present early findings on SB 156 implementation.
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The first three topics are based on our reports and blogs tracking the digital equity gaps during the pandemic. Key findings include:
• Device access rose dramatically early in the pandemic. Statewide, 82 percent of households with school-aged children had reliable devices in fall 2020, up from 68 percent in spring 2020. Gains were greatest for low-income households and Black and Latino households.
• Improvements in Internet access were more modest. The share with reliable Internet rose from 71 percent to 75 percent between spring and fall 2020. Gains were strongest among low-income households.
• Progress stalled in spring 2021, and major equity gaps remained. Forty-one percent of low-income households still do not have full digital access to both the Internet and access to a device for educational purposes; neither do 37 percent of Latino households and 29 percent of Black households.
• Local efforts to address the digital divide prior to the pandemic show how diverse districts can ensure students have Internet access at home.
• EBB/ACP is not reaching most eligible households. As of March 2022, less than a third of eligible households are enrolled in EBB/ACP.
• 500 school districts applied to the ECF, which provided devices to 1.2 million students and connected about 9,000 students with broadband in the 2021-22 school year.
The last topic is based on our (ongoing) interviews with community partners in 58 counties.
Join us to hear about the predictive student analytics work being done by a mid-sized district in California's central valley. If the pandemic taught us one thing, it was that we needed to be agile, adaptive, and leverage available data in the data warehouse. Learn about their journey from business intelligence to key performance indicators and regular data dives with key leadership and school site principals.
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The first part of the presentation is an overview of the capabilities of CENIC’s optical network and how these capabilities are enablers for Spectrum as a service. In addition, we will cover how this new service is contributing to efficient infrastructure sharing with key R&E partners.
The second part of the presentation will focus on CENIC's MPLS-based services. CENIC has migrated to MPLS-Based Services to provide faster recovery during failure, better flexibility to support more use-cases, and simplified operations through dynamic signaling. This presentation will also discuss the challenges faced in implementing MPLS-Based Services.
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Engage with CENIC engineers. Staff from the Network Operations Center, Core Engineering, and Security will be available to answer any questions that you may have about CalREN.
ID: 41176
Engage with CENIC engineers. Staff from the Network Operations Center, Core Engineering, and Security will be available to answer any questions that you may have about CalREN.
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Our national experience of working, studying, and engaging from home during a pandemic was a master class on the impact for those without broadband internet access. The indigenous tribes of California have long experienced that deficit, and Matt Rantanen, referred to as the Cyber Warrior for Tribal Broadband, is dedicated to eliminating that connectivity gap. This session will focus on the development of intensive Tribal Broadband Bootcamps that have provided the technological and human groundwork for engaging with GoldenStateNet to bring fiber infrastructure to tribal communities in California. Rantanen, director of technology for the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association, will share Bootcamp stories of developing the human network at the core of the resources needed to deliver fiber to hard-to-reach communities. He will also share the economic development impact of building and deploying network connectivity to those communities. The session will feature the work of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and its members who have participated in the three-day Tribal Broadband Bootcamps. Linnea Jackson, General Manager for the Hoopa Valley Public Utilities District, and Matthew "Speygee" Douglas, information technology leader, will present on behalf of the Hoopa Valley Tribe.
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5G networks hold vast potential to power new technologies that connect infrastructure, cars, and people in ways that will revolutionize our cities. By increasing the capacity for the simultaneous operation of connected devices in one location at unprecedented speeds, 5G networks can lead to significant gains in sustainability, mobility, and economic opportunity.
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While 5G networks may bring significant benefits, ensuring these are felt by all community members remains a considerable challenge. The deployment of 5G depends heavily on the availability of broadband backhaul. We often think of the broadband divide as an urban-rural divide, yet a broadband chasm also exists between wealthy and poor neighborhoods within cities. While broadband subscriptions in the US continue to grow, the number of broadband deployments and adoption in high-income communities is significantly outpacing those in low-income communities [1].
This panel will outline the challenges to equitable and effective deployment of 5G in urban areas, including the availability of high-speed backhaul networks that are a prerequisite to 5G rollouts; FCC-imposed caps on licensing fees cities can charge 5G network providers for using their infrastructure, which affects revenue models cities can employ to recoup costs and develop 5G investment strategies for less lucrative neighborhoods [2]; and federal restrictions on the adoption of 5G network equipment from adversarial countries [3]. The panelists will provide recommendations for models and policy strategies that should be implemented at the federal, state, and city levels to ensure equitable and effective deployment of 5G networks in urban areas.
Citations:
[1] Exec. Order No. 13873, 3 C.F.R. 22689-22692 (2019). Securing the Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain. Retrieved from https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract...
[2] Reardon, M. (Sept. 26, 2018). FCC limits fees cities can charge for 5G deployment. CNet. Retrieved from https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-...
[3] Tomer, A., Kneebone, E., & Shivaram, R. (Sept. 12, 2017). Signs of digital distress: Mapping broadband availability and subscription in American neighborhoods. The Brookings Institute. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/rese...
Join leaders from Internet2, ESnet, and CENIC as they discuss network orchestration. Network orchestration is a defining factor in next-generation networks, enabling operators to deliver more consistent and reliable services. ESnet has leveraged a combination of internally developed tools, open-source software, and commercial software to orchestrate and automate network configuration deployment. This approach has enabled rapid deployment of new network services and ensured that configuration standards are well enforced when deploying network services.
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Karl Newell will describe Internet2's work in this area, including their work with Cisco NSO, the deployment of 400G networks, and the platforms they are actively using. Robert Kwon will detail the efforts CENIC has underway. During this talk, panelists will provide a brief history of automation in their organizations, describe their goals for orchestration and automation, describe the technology and process used to meet those goals, and provide demonstrations of their orchestration tooling.
This presentation will focus on a wide range of the latest major advances in:
1. Software-defined and Terabit/sec networks,
2. Intelligent global operations and monitoring systems,
3. Workflow optimization methodologies with real-time analytics,
4. State-of-the-art long-distance data transfer methods and tools and server designs
5. Emerging technologies and concepts in programmable networks
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These technologies are designed to meet the challenges faced by leading-edge data-intensive experimental programs in high-energy physics, astrophysics, genomics, and other fields of data-intensive science to clear the path to the next round of discoveries.
These advances are being developed within the Global Network Advancement Group (GNA-G) framework and its SENSE/AutoGOLE and Data-Intensive Sciences (DIS) working groups, the Global Research Platform, and its many sciences, computer science, and R&E network teams. They address key challenges, including
(1) global data distribution, processing, access, and analysis,
(2) the coordinated use of massive but still limited computing, storage, and network resources,
(3) coordinated operation and collaboration within global scientific enterprises, each encompassing hundreds to thousands of scientists, and
(4) enabling the science programs to efficiently use the available network and site infrastructures while simultaneously accommodating the network operations required to support the worldwide academic and research community across national, regional, and transoceanic boundaries.
ID: 36662
The plenary session speakers will be available at tables in the front of the Main Ballroom to answer your questions and discuss their presentations.
ID: 38199
Engage with CENIC engineers. Staff from the Network Operations Center, Core Engineering, and Security will be available to answer any questions that you may have about CalREN.
ID: 41183
With more than ten thousand routing outages reported a year, and as many as 40% of them believed to be malicious, securing your network border is incredibly important. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the standard protocol used to connect networks, was built with minimal security and was designed to trust all network peers.
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ID: 34111
During this panel, we will discuss how attacks or misconfigurations can quickly scale to global problems, describe some of the most common issues, including route hijacking, leaking, and spoofing, and then discuss the best current operational practices in the form of BCPs for securing your network. The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative is helping to define these best current operational practices and provide routing security education for network operators globally. It has been adopted by 171 members of the R&E community. Our panelists, with expertise in campus, national, and international networking, will then lend their insight into how these solutions can best be implemented into your network.
In 2020, the Sacramento Public Library's Central Library suffered catastrophic flooding as a result of failing infrastructure. In 2021, more infrastructure failures at the library and in the city threatened library operations system-wide. These events and other adverse conditions resulted in the library pursuing an ambitious undertaking: leveraging its robust network infrastructure to migrate its systems to the cloud. Come to this interactive session and learn how the Sacramento Public Library achieved this goal and bring examples of your efforts to migrate operations to the cloud for group discussion.
ID: 34751
5G, Satellite, and other advanced wireless technologies offer interesting ways to enable field and remote science activities. They provide a way to move data, a possible sensing modality, and a way to improve the use of sampling assets through dynamic sampling schemes. This talk will explore these uses and the lessons learned from field deployment tests underway.
ID: 34394
This presentation will describe the process of making the Getty's two most recent digital projects, 'Mesopotamia' and 'Persepolis Reimagined' (see links below). The presenters will detail how the projects developed, the challenges faced by the developers, and the solutions that helped bring both of these projects to life.
https://mesopotamia.getty.edu/
ID: 34929
The joint APAN/GNA-G Routing Working Group was formed to address global routing issues impacting the performance of international data flows. Since its creation in June 2021, the group has addressed many different routing issues relevant to the R&E networking community: asymmetrical routing, inefficient global routing (e.g. flows crossing the same ocean twice), R&E flows using commodity routes when an R&E path is available, and changes to links impacting how traffic is routed throughout the world. The Routing Working Group brings together members of the global REN community, nearly 170 members from over 80 organizations to date, to directly address these complex network routing issues and bring them to a swift resolution. During this talk, we'll cover how perfSONAR is used in this collaborative context to identify and resolve routing and performance issues in transnational R&E data transfers.
ID: 34417
ID: 36723
NetSage is an open privacy-aware network measurement, analysis, and visualization service designed to address the needs of today's regional, national, and international networks. Originally a NSF-funded project designed to monitor IRNC links, NetSage now has several regional installations that give valuable insight into network performance in this smaller domestic context. This workshop will cover how NetSage operates, review performance Dashboards, and cover advanced use cases such as spotting performance anomalies and routing issues.
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ID: 34377
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Traditionally, the data plane has been designed with fixed functions to forward packets using a small set of protocols (e.g., IP, Ethernet). This closed-design paradigm has limited the capability of the switches to proprietary implementations, which are hard-coded by vendors. Recently, data plane programmability has attracted significant attention from both the research community and industry, permitting programmers to run customized packet processing functions in the data plane.
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ID: 34334
This tutorial provides information technology professionals with an introduction to P4 programmable data plane switches. The tutorial will include a motivation for using this technology, such as new infrastructures using P4 switches (e.g., FABRIC) and campus networks using programmable data planes. Then the session will cover the fundamentals of programmable switches, for example, P4 building blocks, parser implementation, and populating match-action tables. Topics will be reinforced with hands-on laboratory experiments.
The tutorial will enable attendees to (1) Describe the elements of the Protocol Independent Switch Architecture (PISA); (2) Define protocol headers and header fields in P4; (3) Write simple parsers using P4; (4) Define and populate match-action tables, and (5) Use stateful elements in the data plane.
Attendees will be provided with detailed laboratory manuals and a training platform, accessible from the Internet using a regular web browser (no SSH, Telnet, or other requirements). Access to the training platform will be granted for six months.
Sign up for the workshop here. Attendance is limited to 35 people. Thank you.
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