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

Damian Doyle, former UMBC Deputy CIO and former MDREN Board Chair, retired in August 2024. Damian has moved on to assume the role of Deputy CIO at the University of … Read More

The MDREN is pleased to announce that it has approved the following member campuses as Principal members of the MDREN with full voting privileges:   · Community College of Baltimore … Read More

Most of you know that MDREN is deep into a major upgrade project that will increase throughput for most member campuses to 100GB. MDREN selected ARISTA routers for the edge … Read More

MDREN is growing.  MDREN recently onboarded Corey Williams as an Associate WAN Engineer.  Corey was selected from a strong field of candidates. He recently completed his A.A. degree at Prince … Read More

Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, is rejoining MDREN! Washington College will be rejoining MDREN this summer.  CIO Irv Bruckstein and his team are re-creating their IT team after outsourcing most … Read More