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Download CANARIE 101: Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network

CANARIE is Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network, a dedicated network of high-speed, fibre optic cable that stretches 19,000 km across Canada and links researchers and innovators throughout Canada and around the world. In addition to the network, CANARIE funds programs and tools that promote the evolution of a leading-edge digital infrastructure supporting Canadian researchers and innovators, fostering a growing, competitive, knowledge-based Canadian economy.

CANARIE is a tremendous Canadian asset that enables collaboration and innovation that transforms how Canadians:

The network unites minds across the country and around the world, offering unconstrained bandwidth for research and innovation. Check out our map on the right to see which institutions in your community are benefiting from the high-speed, high-capacity CANARIE Network.

"CANARIE really is essential cyberinfrastructure these days. Research is much more data-intensive. Scientists record and analyze unprecedented amounts of raw data. They also require fast and reliable networks to collaborate with colleagues across the country and the globe. You absolutely need advanced networks and specialized applications to enable Canadians to lead and participate in the breakthroughs that push out our frontiers of knowledge and innovation."

Howard Alper, Chair, Science, Technology and Innovation Council

This dedicated, high-speed, fibre optic network is a critical tool for researchers, educators and innovators in universities, colleges, hospitals, private and public sector research labs, and schools across the country. In total, over 40,000 scientists, researchers and educators at over 1,100 institutions across Canada use CANARIE to improve our health, our environment, our economy and our future.

So how does CANARIE affect you? With Canadian scientists and researchers able to collaborate with peers, access data sets and tools, and share analyses, Canadians and their communities benefit from:

• Cutting-edge research that will help us understand, and treat, a range of diseases and degenerative disorders;
• The ability to access innovative tele-medicine and tele-education services in Canada’s most remote northern communities;
• A better understanding of our natural resources and how to ensure effective resource management practices, through access to data collected from a range of environmental sensors and instruments across the country;
• Enhanced weather modeling systems that provide meteorologists with accurate data on potentially dangerous weather events; and
• The development of intelligent transportation systems that make better use of existing transportation sensors, signal networks and video data to ease traffic congestion and improve incident response capabilities.

These are just a few examples of the thousands of research initiatives enabled by CANARIE. The advanced networking capability, and the development of new tools and software funded by CANARIE, means researchers can analyze and share very large amounts of data, collaborate more effectively, and apply research results in innovative ways. CANARIE works with researchers and developers in many scientific disciplines, across 12 regional networks in Canada, and with 100 international peer networks in more than 80 countries. These collaborations stimulate research, innovation and growth, which deliver economic, social, and cultural benefits to Canadians.

CANARIE is a non-profit corporation supported by membership fees, with major funding of its programs and activities provided by the Government of Canada.