MDREN began hosting Tech Days in the fall of 2023. The goal was to bring together network engineers and other technology professionals from around the state for face-to-face discussions on … Read More

How are faculty and students on your campus accessing AI resources? Is your campus providing enterprise access to ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft CoPilot, Perplexity, or other platforms? Are students and … Read More

The Executive Committee of the MDREN Board of Directors began a national search for a permanent Executive Director in late July. The committee is currently interviewing finalists for the position. … Read More

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