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CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network, provides advanced networking capabilities to university and government researchers who can, in turn, bolster the research capabilities of companies that participate in collaborative projects with them. CANARIE also awards funding to companies and their partners in academia and government to accelerate.
The Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research
CANARIE has launched DAIR, the Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research Program. The intent of the program is to provide shared infrastructure in order to make both research projects as well as new product development by small and medium enterprises more efficient. The pilot program is targeted for operation at the end of March 2011. The focus of the pilot program is the creation of a highly flexible, on demand shared development and testing environment. The pilot phase will be used to verify that this environment reduces the time and cost required to develop and test new products, accelerating time to market for small and medium Canadian enterprises. The pilot will also provide an opportunity to assess the benefits of the DAIR Program to the ICT research community. Based on results from the pilot program, we expect to expand the DAIR Program in both scale and breadth.
Find out more about DAIR here.
Engaging Leading Companies
CANARIE is proud to count many industry leaders among its 70+ members, including Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Canada, IBM Canada, Juniper Networks, Nortel Networks, Optimum Communications Services, Rogers Communications, Shaw Business Solutions, Silicon Graphics Canada, Sun Microsystems of Canada, and Telus Corporation.
Enabling the Development of Highly Qualified People Required by Industry
CANARIE is helping to revolutionize the delivery of education by connecting researchers, professors and students at every university in Canada and enabling new ways to train the next-generation of highly qualified people, who join companies, create policy or educate leaders of the future.
Strengthening Innovation Capacity
CANARIE's global leadership in Green Information Technologies (the study and practice of using computers and telecommunications in a way that maximizes positive environmental benefit and minimizes the negative impact of carbon1) has significantly enhanced Canada's innovation and research capacity.
Companies large and small have already adopted many ideas and concepts originally developed by CANARIE such as 'User-Controlled Lightpaths' (communication channels that connect two end-points in the network2) which now has been commercialized by companies like Cisco Canada and Inocybe.
"CANARIE's Green Information Technology (IT) Call for Proposals underscores the critical role of this corporation as a change agent in the ICT landscape. It will provide enormous lift for companies such as RackForce that aim to develop, implement and promote the use of green data centres to reduce our carbon footprint. For example, winning project teams could influence the development of new standards, discover new ways to optimize zero-carbon data centres, and help to stimulate increased uptake of green ICT approaches. This represents a win for industry and for society."
Brian Fry, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, RackForce, a leader in green data centres based in Kelowna, BC
1 Australian Computer Society
2 http://wiki.glif.is/index.php/Main_Page