The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) is a National Science Foundation funded network research project, which also functions as a collaborative cyberinfrastructure on research, education, and first responder activities. It includes creating, demonstrating, and evaluating a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties. The network includes backbone nodes at the UC San Diego and San Diego State University campuses, and a number of "hard to reach" areas in remote environments. HPWREN Public Information Materials include photos, facts, figures, HPWREN brochures ( 2003 and 2006 versions), and more!

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Mike Datte, during an antenna installation at an HPWREN backbone site.

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Network topology Real-time network cameras Real-time weather data Installation and other photos Various videos Remote research Rural education Public Safety (Incomplete) list of HPWREN Team, Participants, and Collaborators Profiles of some HPWREN team members and collaborators Some design and art work

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Recent highlights May 13, 2008 Upgrade of the HPWREN/RoadNet capabilities between Mount Laguna and Superstition Mountain across the Anza Borrego Desert The HPWREN/RoadNet segment between Mount Laguna and Superstition Mountain, which extends the HPWREN backbone east of Mount Laguna, was upgraded to accommodate additional capacity at a different radio frequency. April 4, 2008 Caltech's Palomar Observatory now upgraded to 155Mbps connectivity via HPWREN An upgrade of major parts of the HPWREN backbone from 45 megabits per second to 155 Mbps terrestrial microwave links is now boosting the network performance of the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory. March 18, 2008 HPWREN collaborates in Florida James Hale describes experiences from when he was drafted for HPWREN purposes during some of his Florida vacation time. March 16, 2008 HPWREN creates a project summary video for NSF The HPWREN team and its collaborators created a high-definition video, requested by the National Science Foundation, which summarizes some of the project, and its interdisciplinary and multi-institutional nature. More HPWREN News Updates

Acknowledgments and Disclaimer

HPWREN is an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional UC San Diego research and education project, led by Principal Investigator Hans-Werner Braun at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. A Co-Principal Investigator, Frank Vernon, is with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. HPWREN is funded by the National Science Foundation: Grant Numbers 0087344 and 0426879. The U.S. government has certain rights to the related material presented on this web site. If you use the HPWREN network or data from this server, your derivative publications or other information materials must make a credit reference to the National Science Foundation Grant Numbers 0087344 and 0426879, as well as the HPWREN project at the University of California, San Diego. Minimum credit line: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu HPWREN is an NSF funded research project, which intends to research the feasibility of wireless data networking technologies. As such, HPWREN offers no guarantees regarding network services. In addition, network security and privacy, as well as the appropriateness of Internet data, are the sole responsibility of the connected entities. HPWREN monitors traffic for research and network management purposes, and usage details may become publicly available. Should the network be used inappropriately, HPWREN reserves the right to disconnect sites. The Usage Conditions document governs acceptable use of the network. Any opinions, findings and conclusions, or recommendations expressed on the HPWREN web site are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or anyone else.  back to top

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