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Our Objectives

As mandated by Industry Canada, CANARIE's simplified objectives for 2007 to 2012 are:

  • To operate, expand and upgrade the high-speed network, increasing use (by real and virtual organizations) and enhancing international networking and networking-focused collaborations
  • To develop, demonstrate and implement next-generation technologies, advancing the network as a recognized leader and facilitating the flexible use of network resources, and of distributed equipment and resources

CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network, is proud to contribute to the objectives outlined in Mobilizing Science and Technology to Canada's Advantage, the Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy established by the Government of Canada in May 2007.

The CANARIE network offers advantages to Canadian research in three key areas:

CANARIE's People advantage:

  • Revolutionizes the delivery of education by connecting researchers, professors and students at every university in Canada and enabling new ways to train highly qualified people, create policy or train the next generation of researchers and professors.
  • Facilitates science and research that spans many scientific disciplines, technologies and industrial sectors, supporting discoveries that are essential to Canada's future prosperity and to the social well-being of Canadians.

CANARIE's Entrepreneurial advantage:

  • Bolsters Canada's international reputation in advanced networking, with benefits flowing to both the research and business sectors.
  • Delivers advanced networking capability to researchers who partner with industry, and extending the research capacity of companies that participate in collaborative projects.
  • Awards funds to companies and their research partners to accelerate research and development in areas that rely on advanced networking, such as Green IT.

CANARIE's Knowledge advantage:

  • Enables Canada's participation in data-driven research, big science projects and global R&D collaborations, enabling researchers to push the frontiers of knowledge and develop new expertise.

"Canada's ability to rapidly identify a new disease outbreak and respond quickly depends on having laboratories such as the National Microbiology Laboratory and the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg connected to others throughout the country. The CANARIE Network enables us to access genomics and proteomics analysis in supercomputing centres in Canada, conduct training for operational staff and graduate students and, if necessary, establish secure and reliable emergency response communications."

Dr. Frank Plummer, HIV/AIDS Scientist, National Microbiology Laboratory