BENEFITS OF BEING AN OSHEAN MEMBER!
Stronger Together.
At OSHEAN, our members are truly stronger together.
By collaborating, members benefit from an unprecedented network of like-minded
professionals who exchange best practices, solve problems, share information and strategies,
and help one another to take advantage of the newest advancements in networking solutions.
Additionally, OSHEAN advocates for national and local access to and utilization of first-class
services in support of its members’ missions. OSHEAN connects members with resources and
technology partners and helps negotiate and manage the resulting relationships.
MEMBER BENEFITS INCLUDE:
COLLABORATION O
SHEAN members enjoy the benefits of collaboration:
sharing expertise, best practices and resources with
other peer members.
COMMUNITY O
ur members have the opportunity to actively
participate in OSHEAN’s strategic direction in terms of
resource allocation, technology selection and budget
planning. It is through the collective expertise of
our membership that OSHEAN is able to adopt new,
effective, technologies that offer cost savings and
efficiency opportunities that would not be possible
without a vested membership community.
CONVENE/CONNECT
OSHEAN members interact and get informed about
policy, programs, new applications and technology
trends. Additionally, OSHEAN members can collectively
advocate for national and local access to and utilization
of first-class networks to support their missions.
OSHEAN proudly acts to connect members with
resources.
COST-SAVINGS OSHEAN offers a number of cost-savings programs for
members such as pre-negotiated VMware Enterprise License
pricing, nationally negotiated ISP pricing, member to member
infrastructure and colocation environment sharing and
multi-tenant virtual private cloud services.
EVENTS & TRAINING O
SHEAN regularly hosts members at in-depth training seminars
to ensure that they are up-to-date on the latest technologies.
OSHEAN also hosts networking events throughout the year
where members enjoy meeting with their peers in a comfortable
environment to discuss the latest challenges and opportunities in
their increasingly technology-driven work environments.
MEMBER TO MEMBER A
ll members that subscribe to IP services from OSHEAN are
PRIVATE PEERING able to access private peering via OSHEAN’s Enriched Internet
Services. OSHEAN has the ability to keep this traffic “On-Net”
for better performance and cost savings. This means that traffic
stays local and thus avoids the commercial Internet; it is simply
switched through OSHEAN routers. This also enables unmetered
access to Microsoft Updates, ESPN, Akamai and Netflix.
INTERNET2 As a regional Internet2 connector, OSHEAN provides a tight
integration with Internet2’s 100 Gbps nationwide backbone and
access to all of Internet2’s resources and unique services.
NEREN The OSHEAN Beacon 2.0 Network is directly connected to the
Northeast Research and Education Network (NEREN) at 375
Promenade Street in Providence, Rhode Island. OSHEAN is able
to provision virtual circuits to the NEREN Colocation Facility in
Springfield, Massachusetts or any other NEREN node location in
Rhode Island, Connecticut or Massachusetts.
FOR MORE INFO www.OSHEAN.org
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