The first round of the $144 million BTOP Golden Leaf...
The first round of the $144 million BTOP Golden Leaf Rural Broadband Initiative is complete, said North Carolina’s Research and Education Network (NCREN)’s operator MCNC. All broadband fiber associated with this phase of the project is now active and serving…
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Community Anchor Institutions (CAIs) including K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, health care facilities, public health facilities, libraries, research institutions, and other sectors of CAIs in western and southeastern North Carolina. Once complete through two phases, the initiative would expand the capacity of NCREN in the state, MCNC said. MCNC received federal approval to begin the second phase of the initiative in June 2011. All construction for the initiative is expected to be complete by 2013. Since the project began, all North Carolina Community Colleges have been connected to NCREN, MCNC said. East Carolina University received a 10 Gbps network upgrade and now serves as a hub for most of eastern North Carolina, it said. The National Climatic Data Center in Asheville now has a 10 Gbps connection, it said.