Network minded and interested in latency, jitter or troubleshooting and measuring network performance? Then check out the KAREN NOC Services Proof of Concept.

The team at REANNZ has been working on the implementation of a suite of open source tools to provide more visibility of the operation and performance of the network to our members.

David Thorns and his team at the University of Canterbury invite KAREN members to participate in an online survey on the user experience of video conferencing.

Issue 7 of hyphen, the newsletter about and for KAREN members, is out now. Check it out for features on:

Missed out on eResearch Australasia? This video conference is your chance to hear highlights of the event from New Zealand researchers.

On Tuesday 21 October, Stuart Charters from Lincoln University and Nicky Gardner from ESR will present highlights from their attendance at eResearch Australasia 2008 conference. Stuart will also share highlights from the GPU (graphics processing unit) Computing workshop.

A group of research libraries from USA universities have launched a new online shared digital repository called the HathiTrust.

HathiTrust (pronounced "hah-tee") pulls together the digital collections, including millions of books, of research libraries from 25 American universities. Materials in the public domain will be available for reading online in full.

The World Summit Award (WSA) is the global contest to select best practice in e-Content and innovative ICT applications.

For the past 3 months traffic* over KAREN has totalled over 200 Terabytes every month. This is equivalent to about 42,000 DVDs.