Utah’s education digital highway to grow

Growing traffic on the state’s educational communications network has prompted it to contract with two companies to increase by 10 times the size of a key section of that digital highway.

The Utah Education Network, the entity that provides the communications network and other services for higher education, public schools and libraries, contracted with XO Communications and Qwest Communications for the upgrade.

The two companies provide a 10-gigabits-per-second, fiber-optic circuit that links Utah State University, Weber State University, the University of Utah, Salt Lake Community College, Utah Valley University and the state’s Richfield Data Center. The state’s school districts and libraries connect to the network through hubs at those institutions.

By Tom Harvey
The Salt Lake Tribune

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