CENIC connects California to the world—advancing education and research statewide by providing the world-class network essential for innovation, collaboration and economic growth.

The realization that predictive climate research could be transformed by networked compute and data resources led to a breathtaking variety of research institutes in California. The next step is to a...

Vastly improved bandwidth and the emergence of AI-enabled tools—such as those made possible for CENIC members with CENIC AIR and NRP—have created a whole new era in weather prediction, climate modelin...

Scientific discovery increasingly depends on AI resources, including large-scale computing, high-quality data and specialized tools. Without access to these resources, ambitious questions pursued by U...

CENIC is hiring for several roles. Join a team that connects California and beyond!

As society becomes more reliant on large-scale supercomputing centers for compute and storage, the costs associated with them have become a topic of discussion. One innovative hypercluster model—a dis...

CENIC is hiring for several roles. Join a team that connects California and beyond!

30 short videos spanning 3 decades, tracking the most important milestones in CENIC's 30 year history.

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

CENIC is delighted to welcome Frank Würthwein, San Diego Supercomputer Director, as Science Advisor to the CENIC Board of Directors, starting in the 2026-27 fiscal year.

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

Learn how researchers at non-R1 institutions or those who need only a handful of GPUs can benefit from CENIC AIR, which can catapult their work to the next level and enable them to collaborate and com...

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

At the 2026 CENIC biennial conference, The Right Connection, attendees heard from top policy analysts stressing that building and sustaining relationships with representatives and agencies in D.C. rem...

Now in its 15th year, the CENIC internship program has given more than 100 students hands-on training and real experience in advanced networking, developed in partnership with Cypress College’s Profes...

At the recent CENIC 2026 biennial conference, a panel of national networking experts discussed what disaster response means for major research and education networks, including proactive planning to e...

Danny Allen of djallen LLC, was joined by Matt Rantanen of the Southern California Tribal Chairman’s Association and Tribal Digital Village; Terry Loftus of the San Diego County Office of Education; a...

Videos from the Ballroom of the 2026 conference March 28-April1 2026

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CENIC has developed CENIC Sentinel, a disaster recovery solution that can be temporarily deployed to CENIC members to restore their access to CalREN quickly during extended outages, and thus keeping o...

Join us in Monterey, California for The Right Connection, a conference created by and for the CENIC community.

CENIC is proud to honor UC San Diego Professor Emeritus Larry Smarr with its 2026 Christine Haska Award for Distinguished Service.

CENIC is pleased to announce that David Lassner, President Emeritus of the University of Hawai’i (UH), and his team will be recognized with the CENIC 2026 Innovations in Networking Award for Network P...

Fortinet delivers cybersecurity everywhere you need it. We secure the entire digital attack surface from devices, data, and apps and from data center to home office.

Join us in Monterey, California for The Right Connection, a conference created by and for the CENIC community.

CENIC is pleased to announce that Frank Wuerthwein, Executive Director of UC San Diego’s San Diego Supercomputer Center and his team will be recognized with the 2026 CENIC AIR Award for Innovative Tec...

CENIC is pleased to announce that Caltech Professor of Physics Harvey Newman and his team of researchers will be recognized with the 2026 CENIC Innovations in Networking Award for Experimental Applica...

CENIC is pleased to announce that Chief Infrastructure Officer Kendra Ard and Chief Information Officer Ed Clark of the California State University (CSU) Chancellor’s Chief Information Office will be ...

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

The C2TAG is a forum for representatives from all CENIC member segments to share information and expertise about network technologies, creating a community of like-minded professionals who serve their...

Join us in Monterey, California for The Right Connection, a conference created by and for the CENIC community.

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

Using Caltech's Zhan Group of Observational Seismology as an example, you can learn how CENIC members and CENIC AIR participants have much of what they need to carry out cutting-edge AI-enabled vulcan...

The use of technology in agriculture to increase yield and decrease resources is the focus of an innovative project fueled by CENIC and its collaborative partners: a novel model of precision agricultu...

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

Jupyter notebooks are key tools for various research and data science tasks, such as exploratory data analysis (EDA) and scientific analysis, and educational uses. CENIC members are in an ideal posit...

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

CENIC member benefits including improved bandwidth and better vendor management at far less cost have made possible the San Joaquin Valley Library System's recent large-scale deployment of indoor and ...

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

By becoming eduroam Hotspot Operators, Ventura County Library and its branches offer the extremely valuable service of eduroam connectivity to its student and faculty residents.

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

CENIC’s networking and services, including CENIC AIR, can be a vital part of preparing new generations of farmers that will apply the latest technology to agriculture by turning the farm into an educa...

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

It’s been eight months since the San Diego Community College District connected to CENIC AIR—and CENIC membership was essential at every step of the way.

We are seeking Network Engineers at various levels: mid-career, senior, technical expert, and leadership roles! Bring your IT career and technical expertise to help support the California Research and...

When Fresno State needed to connect to Pac-12 Enterprises to broadcast a live football game over CBS, the Chancellor's Office reached out to CENIC for what Pac-12 layer called the smoothest turn-up th...