In the Allentown/Bethlehem area, one of the largest employers in the region has been providing support for local school districts for many years by sending staff to classrooms to present the value of science and math in the real world. They are reviewing connectivity as a means of expanding their outreach to a wider distribution of students and teachers during a single session, and without leaving their facility. At the same time, they are contemplating high capacity access to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for data analysis. If they decide to connect, they will have avoided the cost of staffing a new data center, while increasing the productivity of their R&D efforts.
Corporations in PA, NJ, and DE have research and educational opportunities to participate in high performance networking with MAGPI and Internet2 subscribers as an extension of their business goals and objectives.
