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Optical Regional Advanced Networks (ORANs) | Canada's Advanced Network Alliance
Twelve provincial and territorial partners, together with CANARIE, form Canada's advanced research and education network. This powerful digital infrastructure connects Canada's researchers and innovators provincially, nationally, and globally to the data, tools, colleagues, and classrooms that are at the heart of prosperity in the digital economy.
To contact your ORAN - and learn how to connect to the ultra-high-speed network - visit our How to Get Connected page.
ACORN-NL | Atlantic Canada Organization of Research Networks, Newfoundland and Labrador
ACORN-NL is dedicated to the implementation and formalization of a regional advanced network in Newfoundland and Labrador that will link the post-secondary institutions, their major research centres and the K-12 system.
"Advanced networking is an exciting place to be for Newfoundland and Labrador and for ACORN-NL, with cyberinfrastructure enabling large network infrastructure-build projects,such as a province-wide government services network, a second fibre optic network crossing to Nova Scotia and research application projects such as ACEnet and Compute Canada. Not only has CANARIE delivered on its mandate to promote research network capacity, but it has enabled truly national collaboration and real economic growth activities for our province."
Graham Mowbray
Director, Department of Computing and Communications, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Member, ACORN-NL Management Board
ACORN-NS | Atlantic Canada Organization of Research Networks, Nova Scotia
ACORN-NS promotes the development and operation of advanced network infrastructure and services in support of health, research, and education, for the growth of a knowledge-based economy and society in Nova Scotia.
CANARIE has always supported our advanced networking in Nova Scotia. Recently, their support has enabled the development of dark fibre networks serving both urban and rural Nova Scotia. ACORN-NS is proud to be a partner with CANARIE in the development of the world's foremost research and education network."
John Sherwood
Chair, ACORN-NS
Executive Director, University Computing and Information Services
Dalhousie University
Aurora College
Aurora College provides advanced-network services for the Northwest Territories.
"The connection to the CANARIE Network has allowed Aurora College and the Government of the Northwest Territories, over 5000 users, essential access for research and education purposes. This connection has been very valuable, especially for students at Aurora College's campuses and learning centres spread across the NT's expansive geographic area. As the infrastructure in the NT continues to evolve, the link to the CANARIE Network will become even more vital for areas such as research, education, and health care."
Jason Panter
Manager, Distributed Learning, Information
Systems & Technology
Aurora College, NT
BCNET | Shared IT services for higher education and research in British Columbia
BCNET is a not-for-profit, shared IT services organization that collaborates with its higher education members to explore and evaluate leading-edge information technology services to accelerate research, collaboration, learning and innovation. BCNET's high-capacity, advanced fibre optic network infrastructure provides a common and powerful platform to deliver services to support research and the strategic objectives of higher education institutions.
"Through our partnership with CANARIE, British Columbia now has access to one of the world's most advanced optical lightpath Internet networks. Managed by BCNET and CANARIE, this upgraded Optical Regional Advanced Network provides universities, hospitals and researchers in BC with access to 10 gigabits per second bandwidth more than 72 optical wavelengths. This new high speed link provides the telecommunications backbone for many research and educational initiatives, including the Northern Medical Program which uses collaborative technologies to increase the number of medical students graduating from the province's three universities."
Michael Hrybyk
President and CEO
BCNET
E-infrastructure — also called cyberinfrastructure — is the advanced system of networks and computers that was created by and for university research. It is the vanguard of the Internet. This publicly funded backbone of the Internet requires a neutral expert organization to oversee its development, as well as help pilot new projects “above-the-network”, to make us more enterprising. In Alberta, Cybera is the not-for-profit organization with this mandate.
"Our country could not exist – and would not exist – if it were not for the visionary builders of infrastructure that link this great nation. The railway. The TransCanada highway. The national airwaves. Now, we have the Internet and all of its related infrastructure. Cybera is delighted to be the Alberta partner in fostering this next essential building block for Canadian innovation with CANARIE. We are a country of collaborators, and achieve great things through partnerships such as this."
Robin Winsor
President and CEO
Cybera
MRnet is Manitoba's Regional Advanced Research and Education Network. MRnet provides a very-high-speed, fiber optic network linking its research and education members to the world's R&E networks. The MRnet network is provided to support research, education and advanced application development among Manitoba research, education and industry organizations.
For the past 17 years, MRnet and CANARIE have partnered to establish and operate a provincial research and education network serving all post-secondary institutions, research centres and virtually all of the K-12 school in the province. CANARIE funding and support enabled the implementation of fibre-optic networks connecting MRnet members in Winnipeg, Brandon, Thompson and the Pas, as well as schools in other parts of Manitoba. These networks enable R&E organizations in the province to implement new and innovative learning programs and to connect researchers in Manitoba to others in Canada and throughout the world.
Al Dunthorne
President, MRnet
New Brunswick Advanced Network
The NB Advanced Network provides a sustainable, economical, and reliable high speed network platform to educational and research organizations throughout the region. The network connects every part of the area with every other, along with other research and innovation networks across Canada and around the world. The NB Advanced Network is a model of collaboration and shared services across this geographically, economically, and linguistically diverse province.
Terry Nikkel
Associate Vice-President, Information Technology Services
University of New Brunswick
ORION | Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network
As Ontario’s backbone of innovation, Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) is one of the largest not for profit Research and Education (R & E) networks in the world. They connect all of Ontario's colleges and universities, several teaching hospitals, public research facilities, and a growing number of Ontario’s school boards to one another and to a global network of R&E connections. In addition to providing the world’s fastest R&E broadband connection – they are a research and innovation partner for their members. Through their technology and support, ORION constantly strives to keep Ontario on the leading edge of innovation. Visit them at www.orion.on.ca. Follow them on Twitter @ORIONNetwork.
“The partnership between CANARIE and ORION goes back more than a decade. Our alliance and cooperative relationship serves both the Ontario and broader Canadian research and innovation community by connecting Ontario’s best and brightest to peers in Canada and all over the world. Together, we are working to ensure that Canada continues to be at the forefront of discovery and innovation by serving the nearly 2 million Ontario students and over 75,000 researchers, faculty and staff who rely on ORION and CANARIE's national and global connectivity every day.”
Darin P.W. Graham, PhD
President and CEO
ORION – Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network
Prince Edward Island Advanced Network
CANARIE's advanced network connects Island researchers, teachers, and students and their counterparts across Canada and around the world.
RISQ | Quebec Scientific Information Network
RISQ is an extremely high-speed network, deploying more than 6,000 KM of fibr-optic cable across Quebec.
"Being a partner with CANARIE is giving researchers, faculty members and students of Québec post-secondary institutions access to a high-end international infrastructure, connected to other educational networks from Canada and the world. The optical services with dedicated ultra-high bandwidth wavelengths let us support innovative research projects such as those on brain imaging or intelligent transport systems, with international co-operation and distributed processing. The RISQ network, which covers all of Québec, provides regional access to great global networks, whether for educational purposes or for collaboration with various research communities."
Michel Vanier
CEO
RISQ (Réseau d'informations scientifiques du Québec)
SRnet | Saskatchewan Research Network
SRnet (Saskatchewan Research Network Inc.) is a not-for-profit research and education network, the Saskatchewan member of Canada's advanced network alliance. SRnet provides dedicated high speed network (10 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 100 Mbps) access to institutions and companies across Saskatchewan that use it for their research and education activities.
"SRnet's extension to LaRonge and Prince Albert has enabled forest science researchers from Prince Albert to collaborate with their peers in Florida, and has enabled the University of Regina to expand its Northern Teacher Education Program in LaRonge to offer a full Master's Degree course. With this newfound inclusion in Canada's research and education network, northern students and researchers will be limited only by their imaginations. Inclusion and imagination are powerful agents of change!"
Cyril Scheske
President
SRnet
Yukon College
SRnet (Saskatchewan Research Network Inc.) is a not-for-profit research and education network, the Saskatchewan member of Canada's advanced network alliance. SRnet provides dedicated high speed network (10 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 100 Mbps) access to institutions and companies across Saskatchewan that use it for their research and education activities.
"CANARIE is providing a vital link for the Yukon to the national and international education and research networks. The North lacks many of the benefits and opportunities available at advanced learning institutions in southern Canada. CANARIE has helped bridge that gap, allowing our northern students and researchers to be on par with their southern counterparts. At the same time, it allows the wisdom of our First Nation cultures, and the richness of our Northern experience, to be shared throughout the country and the world."
Stu Mackay
Dean, Professional Studies
Yukon College, Yukon
