MIDnet, Inc.: Projects

In the summer of 1986, the NSF funded the proposal for the creation of MIDnet, a regional network to connect researchers in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Since that time, MIDnet has gone through many changes, but has never strayed from its roots in regional networking.

MIDnet is currently working with The Quilt on two projects. The first is to document business models of the research and education optical networks (RONs). For more information on this project, see The Case Study Project.

The second project is designed to promote further understanding of the country’s RON’s and the vital roles they play in the advanced networking capabilities to a region and/or state. For many RON’s economic development is not a primary mission, but often it is a positive by-product of the presence of an advanced R&E network in a geographic area. The goal of this project is to collect economic development success stories of RONs and their participants and publish these stories in a format that educates and promotes further investment, collaboration and cooperation in the networks

We are looking for optical research and education network organizations that track or link economic development in their region and/or state to projects that would not have been possible without the network’s optical infrastructure. Our goal is to document 6-10 economic development success stories, but we are also interested in higher education research projects and also K-12 uses of the networks that would not have been possible without the optical infrastructure deployed by the RONs.

More information can be found in the overview document. If you would like to participate in this project, please contact us.

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MIDnet, Inc
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Lincoln, NE 68542-2813