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Mission
NJEDge.Net (www.njedge.net) is a non-profit technology consortium of academic and research institutions in New Jersey. Though its deployment of advanced Internet technologies and digital communication, NJEDge.Net supports its members in their institutional teaching and learning; scholarship; research and development; outreach programs; public service, and economic development. In providing broadband statewide network, NJEDge.Net creates an environment for interoperability to facilitate productive use of technology across the academic enterprise. NJEDge.Net introduces emerging technologies and state-of-the-art networking to its partners in academia, government and industry for inter-institutional collaboration, scholarship and research.
NJEDge.Net ensures its objectives and goals will align with the missions of the membership and the overall NJ higher education enterprise.
- To provide a network platform using advanced digital communication and high speed regional optical network (RON) enabling connectivity to New JerseyU1 K12 schoolsU1, libraries, teaching hospitals, and research agencies; to the private national educational and research network, Internet2 (http://www.internet2.edu/network/) ; to other state networks and RONS (http://paintsquirrel.ucs.indiana.edu/fiber_map.pdf/archive/fiber_map_current.
- To transform discovery, learning and leadership through advanced cyber infrastructure
- To find the most proficient vendors to offer members cost savings for their institutional initiatives
- To strongly engage our member community.
- To focus on innovation
- To meet the state community needs through a federated model that recognizes the complementary strengths of all its partner members
- To assist its members in their institutional teaching and learning; scholarship; research and development; outreach programs; public service, and economic development through its deployment of advanced Internet technologies and digital communication.
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