ACORN-NS operates an ORAN (Optical Regional Advanced Network) in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

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Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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ACORN-NS runs the Nova Scotia GigaPOP (Gigabit Point of Presence), and is Nova Scotia's partner in Canada's Advanced Network Alliance, the CANARIE

CANARIE

CANARIE is a Canadian government-supported non-profit corporation, founded in 1993, which maintains a set of leased wide area network links for the transfer of very large data files. The core network consists of 19000 km of fibre optic cable capable of speeds as high as 100 Gbps but...

CAnet 4 national high speed research and education network.

Members of ACORN-NS include most of the province's universities, several major provincial and federal government departments and organizations, and some smaller community and regional networks.

ACORN-NS exists to operate, support and promote advanced networking connecting health services, community, research and education resources to aid in the growth of a knowledge-based economy and society in Nova Scotia.

External links

• ACORN-NS Homepage
• ACORN-NS Members List

• CANARIE Homepage
• Links to Canadian and global R&E networks.

• ACORN-NL Homepage (Newfoundland and Labrador)
• RISQ Homepage (Québec)
• ORION Homepage (Ontario)
• MRnet Homepage (Manitoba)
• SRnet Homepage (Saskatchewan)
• Cybera Homepage (Alberta)
• BCNET Homepage (British Columbia)