OPEN Nominated for I2 SEGP Status

Joyce Winslow
jwins@oregon.uoregon.edu

The Oregon Public Education Network (OPEN) may soon become the first American K-12 statewide network to be granted access to Internet2.

Continuing its effort to work with educational partners to make advanced networking capabilities more widely available, the University of Oregon, in conjunction with the Oregon Gigapop, has applied to Internet2 for "Sponsored Education Group Participant" (SEGP) status for OPEN.

Assuming SEGP status is granted, OPEN would join the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Eastern Oregon University, the Oregon Institute of Technology, Southern Oregon University, and Western Oregon University in connecting to Internet2 via the Oregon Gigapop, which is located in Eugene and is operated by the University of Oregon.

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