Members
Spanning 5,800 kilometres to 21 cities throughout Ontario, ORION provides high-speed network capability to Ontario’s publicly funded R&E community and is an enabling platform to support and help drive innovation in the province. The network is a catalyst for the development and provision of creative and innovative research and education collaboration tools, resources and applications. Almost 100 organizations and special projects connect to ORION directly, including 21 universities, 21 colleges, 24 school boards representing over 1 million K-12 students, 10 teaching hospitals and medical research centres, and other research and educational and library public library facilities. ORION currently (November 2010) links 1.7 million Ontario researchers, scientists, students, teachers and staff who depend on ORION for teaching and learning and to enable their research collaborations and discoveries in physics, cancer research, environmental science and technologies, social sciences and the humanities and multiple other disciplines.
ORION is part of the global community of advanced research and education (R&E) networks, including Internet2 in the United States and CANARIE, Canada's advanced network.
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