Newly KAREN connected Mangamaire School is the nerve centre for a new 'fibre-to-the-farm' network for the local community.

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Two years into its life KAREN has exceeded expectations, with REANNZ arguably now the government’s expert agency for smart and efficient purchasing of broadband, according to REANNZ CEO, Donald Clark.

December 15 2008 marked KAREN’s 2nd birthday, and Mr Clark used the opportunity to highlight its many impressive milestones.

KAREN members across the country can now access over 20 free-to-air television and radio streams in high quality from their desktop through TelstraClear’s new IPTV service trial.

TelstraClear has launched an innovative new service trial over KAREN – free-to-air TV and radio multicast streaming. This valuable IPTV service is available only to KAREN members (and only for those who have implemented multicasting).

Video conferencing is revolutionising the way people are communicating over distance. Like with any new enabling technology, there are learnings and challenges to be had along the way. This session will provide advice on how to get the best from your video conferencing experience, from room set-ups and managing technology failures to VC etiquette.

Join us this Wednesday for a rundown from Peter Helms on the eResearch and supercomputing services available at BlueFern to support your research activities.

We are excited to bring you Peter Helms from BlueFern at the University of Canterbury. Advanced computing and networking are natural companions in the global age of eResearch.

November saw us reach a new milestone in the use of KAREN, with total traffic volume exceeding the 300 Terabyte mark for the first time. This is a great increase on the already impressive achievement of over 200 Terabytes of traffic every month from July.

Tomorrow at 10am - 11am, Ian Darby will host a video conference exploring the technology and capabilities of video conference endpoints (standalone VC units). This session will cover: