WiscNet connects people. We create opportunities for our community to grow collaborations and share strategies. We work together to articulate needs and then we build connections, advance strategies and create services that solve the real-world problems of our members. A well designed “people network” lets the entire WiscNet community make simple and intuitive use of our most valuable resource: each other. Learn more.
Growing People
Growing Networks
During our twenty plus years together, our members have grown and advanced network capable of moving tens of gigabits per second around Wisconsin and beyond. We will continue to grow our shared network, as well as take strategic steps forward by growing other high-performance networks. We will help the WiscNet community, public and private, grow more networks capable of moving hundreds of gigabits per second, enabling Wisconsin and our communities to advance. Learn more.
Growing Services
Our members trust our association to deliver and sustain a robust, cost-effective network. By relying upon and prudently developing this trust among our members, we want to grow new services that will make full use of an advanced ubiquitous network infrastructure. While the network will remain the top priority, we will take a fresh analysis of our core competencies in order to develop new services for and beyond the network. Learn more.
WiscNet Services
WiscNet offers a variety of research and education services to its members and the WiscNet community. For more information regarding any of our services, please contact WiscNet Technical Support at (608) 265-6761 x 2.
WiscNet connects people. We create opportunities for our community to grow collaborations and share strategies. We work together to articulate needs and then we build connections, advance strategies and create services that solve the real-world problems of our members.
WiscNet’s Network Services take advantage of our multi-state network that is the foundation for our WiscNet community and the services we share. We strategically acquire and light optical fiber that allows us to operate a highly scalable and economical backbone network.
Community Area Networks are local economic development opportunities through 21st century technologies. They create a platform for community-based services to make the public sector more efficient and the private sector grow locally through advanced networking.
Wisconsin’s schools, local governments and other public service organizations can now look to the cloud for their data backup storage needs. WiscNet has created an online data backup service that allows its members to copy critical data over the network to an offsite location.
WiscNet helps keep data and network secure. We can provide a WiscNet managed firewall, or manage one you already own. We can also help discover vulnerabilities on your servers with the Nessus scanner. WiscNet also uses our community buying power to offer reduced rates on SSL certificates.
To help comply with E-rate requirements, we provide a continuously updated, high-performance filtering service to block sites, content and services that you deem inappropriate. We can also host your web site, freeing you from maintaining a web server while giving you full control of the content. We can also work with you to setup and maintain email lists and serve as a mail relay for devices on your network.
Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) recently built a new Data Center in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and have partnered with WiscNet to offer co-location and develop additional opportunities for all WiscNet members. If you have an idea about how your organization might benefit from co-location or virtualization services at the CVTC Regional Datacenter, contact us!
By paying close attention to our members and community, we know there are researchers, teachers, staff and individuals interested in other services. As we look to the future, members may consider using WiscNet to provide new services.