MDREN held another successful Tech Day. The June meeting occurred at the Universities at Shady Grove on June 11th. Sessions included discussing implementing a zero-trust network and adding AI enhancements … Read More

MDREN will soon be evaluating vendor proposals for an upgrade to the optical network. The project will begin in the next few months and will upgrade the core of the … Read More

MDREN is initiating a pilot program over the next academic year to assist researchers and faculty from several USM campuses in accessing high-performance computing resources at the University of Maryland, … Read More

Over the past couple of years, the University of Maryland at Baltimore has built a secure research environment (SRE) to support funded research in medicine and other disciplines. The SRE … Read More

Over the past year, MDREN engineers have upgraded the router layer of all 23 member colleges and universities and increased their potential bandwidth to 100GB. Previously, most campuses had 10GB … Read More

Over the past few months, MDREN, KeystoneREN of Pennsylvania, and the University of Delaware have been exploring ways to collaborate to support education and research in the Mid-Atlantic. The organizations … Read More

MDREN will hold Tech Day 5 at The Universities at Shady Grove on June 11 – from 8:30 to 3 PM. The bi-annual network engineer meetings provide sessions on crowd-sourced … Read More

Our network upgrade continues. Routers at all 29 locations have been installed and configured. Most member campuses are 100GB ready. If you look at the MDREN telemetry at the mdren.net … Read More

Colleges face challenges in supporting the high-end academic needs of faculty and students. MDREN connects campuses with supercomputing resources to enhance their research and global collaboration. We’ve facilitated smaller campus … Read More

The US has about 40 research and education networks (RENs) that connect people, universities, colleges, and schools to the Internet. The national group, the Quilt (thequilt.net), supports partnerships, contracts, conferences, … Read More