The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced the first production 10 gigabit Ethernet campus connection in the United States now installed from UC San Diego to CENIC’s high-performance backbone network, CalREN.

Upgrading from their one gigabit connection, this new10 gigabit link provided unprecedented wide-area network capacity to UCSD’s students, faculty and staff. UCSD chose to pursue this connection as its researchers had extreme needs for ever larger data transfer and more powerful distributed collaboration particularly in the biomedical and ocean sciences.