The Maryland Office of Statewide Broadband received $268M to provide broadband to unserved and underserved areas of the state. The money came from the Broadband, Equity, Accessibility, and Deployment Grant … Read More

MDREN will hold its second Tech Day mini-conference on October 27th at UMBC South. The day will include presentations on the implementation of cloud PBX solutions by the Community College … Read More

The NSF CC* grant was completed, and the report was submitted! Thanks to Damian Doyle (UMBC) and Dr. Eric Davidson (UMCES) who served as PIs. Special thanks also to Brad … Read More

The MDREN Board has approved the hiring of a junior network engineer at MDREN. The search will begin this summer and is a part of the ongoing succession planning process. … Read More

MDREN is working with the Salisbury University Procurement Department to release an RFP for a router upgrade at all member campuses. The RFP will be posted in the eMaryland Marketplace … Read More

MDREN was awarded an NSF grant in 2019 to upgrade several member campuses to 10GB. The grant also included the enhancement of big data transfer by creating a science DMZ … Read More

MDREN held its first Technology Day mini conference on June 27, 2023, at the USM Headquarters in Adelphi. About 40 networking professionals (and a few CIOs!) were able to attend. … Read More

MDREN will be using the Fortra GoAnywhere tool to enable researchers to move large data files to colleagues, cloud repositories (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.), or High-Performance Computing Centers (HPC). … Read More

A growing number of MDREN member campuses have begun backing up campus data to a cloud resource. MS Express Route, Google Cloud, Oracle Fast Connect, and Amazon Web Services Cloud … Read More

Brad was previously the Director of Enterprise Technology Operations at Bowie State University.  He was responsible for information systems, networking, and telecommunications at BSU. He brings a wealth of experience … Read More