OECD BEREC workshop on Internet peering - how R&E networks can help community broadband

[Here is a great set of slides put together by Rudolf van der Berg of the OECD on IP interconnection.

Revolutionary developments in on-line education - the role of R&E networks

[In the past couple of days there was a number of interesting announcements in the world of on-line education.

My top 10 predictions for Internet and R&E networks for 2012

[Well folks its that time of year again when self professed pundits make their various forecasts and projections on technology trends on the coming year.

How clouds are transforming education, research and libraries

[I recently the great pleasure of visiting JISC and JANET in the UK and was very impressed on their understanding of the potential of commercial clouds to radically transform education, research and libraries.

Internet bigger than agriculture or energy sectors - importance of R&E networks

[Several months ago McKinsey did a very interesting study on the economic value of the Internet.

Open Lightpath Exchanges, The Data Deluge, Software Defined R&E Networks

[Several readers of this blog have pointed to the article in last week’s NYTimes on the genomics data deluge.