CLICK HERE. / " title="THE CONSORTIUM anticipates finishing the Burlington, Vt. to Hanover, N.H., leg by February 2011. For a larger version of this map, CLICK HERE. /"/>BURLINGTON, Vt. – A new leg of the North East Cyberinfrastructure Consortium’s fiber optic network, connecting the University of Vermont to Albany, N.Y., was completed on Oct. 31.
The consortium also anticipates finishing the Burlington, Vt., to Hanover, N.H., leg by February 2011.
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The North East Cyberinfrastucture Consortium is a coalition of universities and research institutions across five states including Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
Its high-speed fiber optic network is capable of transmitting 60 gigabits per second, 35 times faster than the current rate, the University of Vermont said in a news release on Oct. 29, noting that the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have awarded the consortium more than $17 million.
On Oct. 28, a celebration of the completion of the first leg of the redundant fiber ring took place at Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center at the Leahy Center of Lake Champlain in Burlington by U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D–Vt., and UVM President Daniel Mark Fogel.
The first major project to take advantage of the new network will be a genomic study of algal blooms in Lake Champlain, the university said, noting it will be a regional effort to determine the microbiomes of all the microorganisms in algal blooms in Champlain and four other lakes in the Northeast.
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