Trends in State Research/Higher Ed Networking

The Computing Center recently prepared a 12-page document summarizing the current state of Statewide Higher Education Research and Education Networks and State Agency Networks. The document reveals several trends:

• Virtually all namesake state universities now have Internet2 connectivity, with Abilene being far more common than the vBNS.
• In roughly 80% of all states, the state higher education research and education network runs a physical statewide backbone.
• With only a few exceptions, state government agencies either are customers of the higher education research and education network, or operate a separate state agency network. It's very uncommon for higher education to be customers of a state agency network.

To get an Adobe Acrobat copy of this document, go to http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/state-networks.pdf