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After three years of hard work, OWEN/NERO's latest regional fiber project was completed in December 2002.
OWEN (Oregon WidE area Network Partnership) and NERO (the Network for Education and Research in Oregon, based at the UO) collaborated on the project, working with local fiber consortia to expand and enhance the network backbone connecting Eugene, Salem, and Portland. Thanks to their efforts, and the labor of the Computing Center's Network Services staff, the backbone network operates at greater speed and at lower cost to its users.
Through the OWEN Partnership, public entities combine their network needs and can afford much higher speed connections than if each entity purchased services on the open market. NERO contributes the sophisticated engineering know-how to supply high-speed Internet access service to more than half a million K-12 students and over 100,000 students in higher education, as well as to all state agencies.
A map of the Oregon WidE area Network, showing the fiber path between partner networks. OWEN/NERO's latest fiber project added a Salem hub to facilitate faster direct connections between Eugene and Portland.