Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California

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Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California

Formation	1997
Type	Not-for-profit
Purpose	Educational network
Headquarters	La Mirada, California
Website	www.cenic.org
ASN	2153

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC (/ˈsiːnɪk/ SEE-nik)) is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1997 to provide high-performance, high-bandwidth networking services to California universities and research institutions. Through this corporation, representatives from all of California's K-20 public education combine their networking resources toward the operation, deployment, and maintenance of the California Research and Education Network, or CalREN. Today, CalREN operates over 8,000 miles of fiber optic cable and serves more than 20 million users.