Canarie

CANARIE designs and delivers digital infrastructure, and drives its adoption for research, education and innovation.

High level thoughts:

• get more people/business/spaces connected to 100Gbps / 1000Gbps connections
• What can we run from “not a data center” / home / office
• AI models
• Shared data and backup
• Various P2P
• Connection to mesh networking and/or self hosted 5G nodes

About

Together with our 13 provincial and territorial partners, we form Canada’s National Research and Education Network (NREN). This ultra-high-speed network connects Canada’s researchers, educators, and innovators to each other and to global data, technology, and colleagues. 

To strengthen the security of Canada’s research and education sector, we collaborate with our partners in the NREN, government, academia, and the private sector to fund, implement, and support cybersecurity initiatives. We also provide identity management services to the academic community and boost Canada’s startups with cloud resources and expertise in emerging technologies. 

Established in 1993, CANARIE is a non-profit corporation, with most of our funding provided by the Government of Canada.

NREN

National Research and Education Network

Up to 100Gbps network.

High level list of connections.

Includes 12 business incubators / accelerators.

#todo figure out who is connected.

DAIR Cloud Program

Uses AWS. For profit only, 2-3 month waitlist.

Priorities

Our 2020-24 mandate from the Government of Canada (through Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) includes 3 main priorities:

• Providing an internationally competitive ultra-high speed network for Canada’s research, innovation and advanced education communities;
• Developing, demonstrating and implementing next generation technologies; and
• Assisting firms operating in Canada and Canadian institutions to advance innovation and commercialization of products and services to bolster Canada’s technology capabilities.