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California's education and research institutions combine their networking resources (funding, equipment, and expertise) under CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California. CENIC's mission is to design, provision, and operate the California Research and Education Network (CalREN), a high-bandwidth, high-capacity Internet network dedicated to research and education and specially designed to meet their needs, and to which the vast majority of the state's K-20 educational institutions are connected.

In order to facilitate its mission of encouraging innovation, CENIC also provides connectivity to non-California institutions and to industry research organizations with which CENIC's Associate researchers and educators are engaged. CalREN consists of a CENIC-operated backbone to which schools and other institutions in all 58 of California's counties connect via fiber or leased circuits obtained from telecom carriers.

CENIC is governed by its member institutions. Representatives from these institutions also donate free expertise through their participation in various committees designed to ensure that CENIC is managed effectively and efficiently, and to support the continued evolution of the network as technology advances.