Canarie - Partners and Members

"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

CANARIE's advanced network connects Island researchers, teachers, and students and their counterparts across Canada and around the world.

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

In partnership with CANARIE, the New Brunswick ORAN provides a high speed, high capacity network that connects members to universities and research organizations across Canada, and to more than 10,000 destination sites worldwide.

"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)

"ORION and CANARIE have been strategic partners from the start and our alliance continues to pay significant dividends as Ontario starts to take full advantage of our networks and their virtually unlimited capabilities. As with our joint deployment of ROADM technology and other investments, we're pushing the boundaries of advanced networking and innovation and making a real difference for the 1.3 million Ontario students and 75,000 researchers, faculty and staff who rely on ORION and CANARIE's global connectivity."

Phil Baker
President and CEO
ORION (Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network)

"Partners since 1995, CANARIE and MRnet have worked together to establish a provincial research and education (R&E) network serving all post secondary institutions, research centres and the majority of school boards in the province. CANARIE funding and support helped to establish two dark fibre R&E networks, connecting member institutions in Winnipeg, Brandon and south western 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."

Gerry Miller
President, MRnet
Executive Director, Information Services and Technology
University of Manitoba

"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

"From CANARIE's inception to the present, Cybera and Cybera's Albertan ancestors -- Netera Alliance and WurcNet -- have worked closely with CANARIE to develop and leverage the country's advanced network infrastructure, empowering researchers both in Alberta and across Canada in a broad range of disciplines from the sciences to the humanities. Cybera's long-term collaborative relationship with CANARIE has demonstrated exemplary progress, even in difficult periods. It is this partnership and joint commitment to developing knowledge, skills and cyberinfrastructure that offer competitive advantage to Canada's innovators."

Brian Unger
President and CEO
Cybera

"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

"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

"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 NWT's expansive geographic area. As the infrastructure in the NWT 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, NWT