Organization: CANARIE

Solar energy powers up GreenStar Network

Canada has its first green-powered Internet network as part of a $2-million project funded by the pilot Green IT program of CANARIE. The solar-powered data centre is part of the GreenStar Network project between CANARIE, CyberaNet (Alberta’s high-speed, high-bandwidth network ) and various partners. The Calgary node will draw 220 watts of power from its…

U of T uses CANARIE to archive holdings

Univ of Toronto Libraries is in the midst of a major digital archiving and preservation initiative using the CANARIE backbone network to send one terabyte of data daily to the Internet Archive. To date, 250,000 U of T books have been digitized with another 250,000 books pending archival. Established in 1996, the Internet Archive allows…

CANARIE part of new IceLink

CANARIE is collaborating with five Nordic National Research and Education Networks to initiate the IceLink project. Part of the larger NSF GLORIAD project, IceLink connects the northern polar regions with a high-capacity circuit for collaborative research. CANARIE is contributing a dedicated optical lightpath from Memorial Univ to New York, giving it much-needed redundancy to Europe….

CANARIE announces Green IT project winners

An alliance of leading information and communications technology (ICT) firms, universities and international partners is the big winner of a Green IT competition held by CANARIE. The Green Star Network — led by École de technologie supérieure — has been awarded $2 million to develop a groundbreaking Internet in which network nodes will be powered…

CANARIE launches second NEP competition

CANARIE has launched the second round of its Network-Enabled Platforms program (NEP-2) to fund collaborative projects designed to accelerate the development of, and participation in, national and international cyber-infrastructure and e-research platforms. The $12-million competition will focus on the development and deployment of middleware tools and related platform technologies used by virtual organizations to support…

CANARIE leads pilot to reduce ICT carbon footprint

CANARIE is investing $3 million in a pilot program to demonstrate the viability of a zero carbon cyber-infrastructure facility. The project will develop and test business models stemming from a reduction in the use of non-renewable energy sources for information and communications technology (ICT) activity. The Green IT Pilot is an international initiative headquartered in…

CANARIE funds NEPTUNE ocean floor data link

NEPTUNE Canada has received $2.2 million from the CANARIE Infrastructure Extension program for a dedicated high-speed Internet connection for 10 years. The line will be provided by Shaw Business Solutions and will run 200 km from Port Alberni to the campus of the Univ of Victoria, linking the ocean floor to NEPTUNE…

CANARIE’s future focus of strategic study

CANARIE‘s future beyond 2012 is the focus of a policy study to be undertaken by the firm of Hickling Arthurs Low. The study will be funded by CANARIE and Industry Canada and overseen by both organizations. It will focus on options for how the facilitator of next-generation research networks should evolve beyond its current five-year…

CANARIE network boosted with Nortel technology

CANARIE has deployed a new optical network from Nortel Networks Corp that more than quadruples its previous network capacity. The network upgrade from Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks division gives the research and education network up to 72 optical wavelengths operating at 10Gbps at its core and future enhancements to 40 Gbps/wavelength. The upgrade was achieved…

CRC licenses optical technology portfolio to LxSix

Montreal start-up LxSix Photonics Inc has signed a licensing agreement with Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) to manufacture fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) in Canada, and to market the products worldwide. Developed at CRC’s lab in Ottawa, FBGs are recognized as the fourth major discovery in optical communications, following the invention of optical fibres, lasers and…