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Wisconsin chooses likely vendors for BadgerNet 2

Madison, Wis. Wisconsin took a step toward its new statewide video and data network Monday with Governor Jim Doyles announcement that the state favors the bid of an alliance of SBC and other telcos. The BadgerNet alliance proposes to build and manage the network dubbed BadgerNet 2 for t...

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State criticized over BadgerNet 2 execution; some doubt benefits

Critics of the state's plan to replace its decade-old video and data network, BadgerNet, were surprised to hear on Tuesday that a contract with an SBC-headed alliance had already been signed. The Wisconsin BadgerNet Access Alliance, a group of companies including SBC, Verizon, Norlight, CenturyT...

Badger Ventures plans to fund IT; partisan stem-cell battle; BadgerNet draws fire

Badger Ventures, a newly forming venture capital firm, hopes to make waves in Madison and gather funding to invest in information technology companies. Also, state Assembly Republicans moved to deny new research tax credits to companies doing studies that require destroying embryos, and the state d...

Governor tells state, university to work together on IT

...uld not let the university build and operate it, and the university would not let the DOA farm out its portion to a private contractor. The state's badgernet and the university's WiscNet are already independent, with some overlap. This May, the governor had agreed to let the state and university build their...

Governor tells UW to scrap network plans

... would not let the university build and operate it, and the university would not let its portion be farmed out to a private contractor. The state's badgernet and the university's WiscNet are already independent, with some overlap. This May, the governor had agreed to let the state and university build their...

Charter Business powers distance learning

...ill result in a single network that will connect all sites, schools, libraries, state agencies, the UW System and technical colleges togethermuch like badgernet connects the smaller regional DENs to the same network. The regional networks will maintain their structure, but the potential for interconnectivit...

Landweber on networks, open source, and NSF budget cuts

...capacity for that sort of data transfer. UW-Madison has a direct link to Chicago. Regarding Wisconsins new statewide data and video network, dubbed badgernet 2, Landweber said he didnt share some of the concerns UW officials have voiced over its ability to serve the university. I think UW-Madison is well...

Midwest telecom conference to push government cooperation

...sion. The conference will also feature a panel on the development of the badgernet state network, including retiring UW-Madison Provost Peter Spear and Wisc...rtant for to share thoughts on network development, especially since during badgernet development local government was kept out of some meetings. Other speake...

Broadband access needs a champion, FCC commissioner says

...ether, we need to create a wireless Wisconsin," Browne said, "and we need to do it fast." The Doyle Administration is implementing the $117 million badgernet II initiative, which is designed to provide 22 times the current broadband capacity statewide. BadgerNet, which should be completed by August of this ...