by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
Recently, OSHEAN hosted two VMware training courses presented by a VMware-certified training company: View and vSphere. These courses provide in-depth lectures, hands-on labs, and prepare students to sit for VMware Certified Professional exams. Please note, all...
by admin | Feb 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
The term “Big Data” is thrown around so much lately that we tend to gloss over its significance. Some folks brush the trend off as nothing new; a natural evolution under Moore’s law. As OSHEAN looks to 100+Gbps networks, I have become intrigued by...
by admin | Feb 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Members are increasingly interested in expanding their Internet connections beyond 1Gb. In an ideal world, budgets would be plentiful enough to make investments in a (preferably redundant) 10Gb edge routing infrastructure. But what if funding is...
by admin | Feb 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Watch for an inside look at Sophia Academy’s new facility!Sophia Academy is a private middle school for girls specifically who have less fortunate backgrounds in the Providence area. On Friday, December 13th, thieves broke into Sophia Academy, ripping...
by admin | Feb 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I am asked about who OSHEAN is, the conversation often starts with a definition of a Research and Education Network (REN) and a companion discussion of Internet2. Internet2 was formed in 1996 by 34 universities who understood that the network and computing needs...
by admin | Jan 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Another development…http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/23/net-neutrality_n_5201034.html
by admin | Jan 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
October 25, 2013–We are pleased to announce that OSHEAN has successfully completed its $21.7M Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) Federal Stimulus Grant. On October 25, 2013, we had the privilege to celebrate our project’s...
by admin | Jan 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
The 2013 deep sea research and exploration cycle has wrapped-up. Once again Rhode Island was at the forefront of oceanographic exploration with Dr. Robert Ballard’s work at the Center of Ocean Exploration at URI, and NOAA’s Okeanos home ported at Quonset...
by admin | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Service providers across the globe, including OSHEAN, have built high-capacity optical backbones capable of transmitting vast quantities of information in short periods of time. These deployments take considerable engineering experience, time, and cost. No...
by admin | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
A confusing and often misunderstood topic when working with optical networks are the dB and dBm values associated with power and loss. You will sometimes hear these values used interchangeably when they are actually two different measurements. The following article...
