Campus brief
Grant provides faster
network connection
The University will add anoth
er lane to its information super
highway with the help of a
$350,000 grant awarded by the
National Science Foundation.
The grant, awarded to 36 uni
versities, will be disbursed over
two years beginning Sept. 15.
The University will match the
grant with about $300,000 from a
fund set up through the Oregon
Joint Graduate School of Engi
neers.
“The Oregon University Sys
tem set aside match money some
time ago,” said Joanne Hugi, Com
puting Center director.
The money will allow the Uni
versity to buy bandwidth, which
controls the speed of a network
connection. The University may
also buy networking equipment
and link the University’s system to
other high performance networks.
Hugi said the University will
pay Quest Telecommunications
to run the new network, called
Abilene.
The new connection will also
provide better access to other uni
versities that received the same
grant or a similar grant, and to
federal agencies.
“We just can’t deliver the infor
mation quickly enough on the
current system,” Hugi said. “It
gives researchers an avenue to use
other applications that they other
wise couldn’t pursue.”
The new network connection
will run about three times faster
than the current system.
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