CANARIE upgrades network, funds new projects.

CANARIE Inc has announced a critical upgrade of its national research network that will dramatically increase network capacity 10-fold. The upgrade was achieved with the installation of ethernet routers from Juniper Network Inc, Sunnyvale CA, allowing researchers to exchange and analyze large data volumes more quickly. The upgrade was unveiled at CANARIE's Summit 09 conference held last month in Banff. Also announced at the conference were the winners of its second Network Enabled Platforms competition, which provided $10.5 million to nine research projects at six institutions: Univ of Calgary ($2.1 million), McGill Univ ($1.8 million & $0.9 million), Univ of Western Ontario ($1.2 million) Cybera Inc ($1.1 million & $0.9 million), Univ of Victoria ($1 million & $0.6 million), and Univ of British Columbia ($0.9 million). For details: www.canarie.ca....