Re: Education/Research alliances
"Jere Retzer" <[email protected]> Thu, 22 May 2003 08:36:11 -0700
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This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --=_ECB31398.A3C37F3A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable NWAX, www.nwax.net is co-located with the Portland Research and Education = Network (PREN), an entity that Portland higher ed created to connect to = Internet2. It is not a gigapop but connects to PNWGP. We can also connect = to the University of Oregon gigapop via NWAX. I think these associations = have been major assets to the exchange because for one they represent lots = of potential eyeballs and peering traffic. What do you have in mind as far = as "investing in developing these relationships?" >>> [email protected] 05/21/03 10:40PM >>> Having recently (2 years) joined the ranks of the=20 education/research community, I have found some significant=20 benefits for the Utah regional exchange through affiliation=20 with the education/research community. I'm curious how many other REPs have strong affiliations=20 with regional education/research institutions, or have=20 attempted to develop those affiliations? Would your REP be willing to invest in developing those relationships and engaging your local higher-ed institutions in supporting your project? Pete. --=_ECB31398.A3C37F3A Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: HTML <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1"= > <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4727.700" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"MARGIN-TOP: 2px; FONT: 12pt Verdana; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px">NWAX,= <A=20 href=3D"http://www.nwax.net">www.nwax.net</A> is co-located with = the=20 Portland Research and Education Network (PREN), an entity that Portland = higher=20 ed created to connect to Internet2. It is not a gigapop but connects to = PNWGP.=20 We can also connect to the University of Oregon gigapop via NWAX. I think = these=20 associations have been major assets to the exchange because for one = they=20 represent lots of potential eyeballs and peering traffic. What do you have = in=20 mind as far as "investing in developing these=20 relationships?"<BR><BR>>>> [email protected] 05/21/03 = 10:40PM=20 >>><BR>Having recently (2 years) joined the ranks of the=20 <BR>education/research community, I have found some significant <BR>benefit= s for=20 the Utah regional exchange through affiliation <BR>with the education/resea= rch=20 community.<BR><BR>I'm curious how many other REPs have strong affiliations= =20 <BR>with regional education/research institutions, or have <BR>attempted = to=20 develop those affiliations?<BR><BR>Would your REP be willing to invest = in=20 developing those<BR>relationships and engaging your local higher-ed=20 institutions<BR>in supporting your=20 project?<BR><BR>Pete.<BR><BR><BR></BODY></HTML> --=_ECB31398.A3C37F3A--