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CENIC AND OSTN UNITE TO PROVIDE IPTV TO CALIFORNIA’S K-20 EDUCATION 
COMMUNITY

Educational, Foreign Language and Student-Produced Programming Available 
to CENIC-linked Universities, Research Institutions

CYPRESS, CA – February 1, 2007 – The Corporation for Education Network 
Initiatives in California (CENIC) today announced its partnership with 
Open Student Television Network (OSTN) to deliver IPTV via the 
California Research & Education Network (CalREN) to 9.5 million end 
users. CalREN connects 10 University of California campuses; 23 
California State University campuses; all California community colleges; 
the California K-12 system; the Naval Postgraduate School; and many of 
California’s independent universities such as Caltech, University of 
Southern California (USC), Stanford University, University of San Diego 
(USD), and University of San Francisco (USF).

OSTN is the leading provider of educational and foreign language IPTV 
content and student-produced programming. CENIC is a nonprofit 
corporation that owns, operates and manages CalREN on behalf of 
California’s K-20, research and education community.

OSTN launched in 2005 with the only 24-hour, seven-day global channel 
exclusively devoted to student-produced programming. In 2006, OSTN added 
CableTV, which delivers educational and foreign language TV channels to 
colleges and universities via CENIC and other networks. OSTN now is 
delivered to 41 million users at 4,500 university member campuses and 36 
countries around the globe.

CalREN began operation in 1998 and has grown into a state-spanning 
fiber-optic network encompassing more than 2,500 miles of optical fiber. 
It serves nearly all of California’s public and private research and 
educational institutions. 

All of the more than 140 sites that connect to CalREN have access to its 
cutting-edge, high-performance Internet networking. CalREN’s connections 
to international research and education networks permit collaboration on 
advanced research and education on a global scale.

“OSTN not only delivers educational content to California’s colleges and 
universities, but it also provides opportunities for students at those 
institutions to work together to create content themselves,” said Jim 
Dolgonas, President and CEO of CENIC. “CENIC created the CalREN network 
to enable precisely this sort of active, collaborative learning 
environment, and we’re delighted that students at our member 
institutions will be able to take advantage of what OSTN has to offer.”
OSTN CableTV includes educational channels such as University of 
California Television (UCTV). The foreign language channels can include 
CCTV (Chinese), TV5 (French), RAI (Italian), ART (Arabic), TV Polonia 
(Polish), SBTN (Vietnamese), MBC (Korean), RTN (Russian), TFC 
(Filipino), TV Asia (South Asian), TV JAPAN (Japanese), CTI Zhong Tian 
Channel (Chinese), and C1R (Russian).
“This partnership allows California educators to leverage their 
investments in CENIC’s CalREN network to deliver quality educational and 
foreign language multimedia content, and that promises tremendous 
opportunities for learning,” said Prashant Chopra, OSTN Chief Executive 
Officer. “Students not only learn about the global economy and the 
global society, they can become a part of it as they share their own 
student-produced content with contributions from students across the globe.”

Two CENIC members, San Francisco State and the University of Southern 
California, provide student-produced content to OSTN.

For more information on receiving OSTN, contact Anthony Davis, Vice 
President of Membership Development, at  or 
216-973-7564.

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About OSTN:
OSTN is leading provider of educational and foreign language IPTV 
content and services. OSTN features the only 24/7 worldwide channel 
exclusively devoted to student-produced programming. OSTN now is 
delivered to 41 million users at 4,500 university member campuses and 36 
countries around the globe. OSTN can be viewed on televisions and 
personal computers.

In North America, OSTN uses Internet2’s advanced network to distribute 
programming to members. It uses ORION in Ontario, Canada and the GEANT2 
Network, managed by DANTE, in the European Union. GEANT2 links to Asia 
via TEIN2, the Middle East & Africa via EuroMed, Latin and South America 
via ALICE and Australia via AARNet. For more information, visit 
www.ostn.tv.

About CENIC:
California’s education and research communities leverage their 
networking resources under CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network 
Initiatives in California, in order to obtain cost-effective, 
high-bandwidth networking to support their missions and answer the needs 
of their faculty, staff, and students. CENIC designs, implements, and 
operates CalREN, the California Research and Education Network, a 
high-bandwidth, high-capacity Internet network specially designed to 
meet the unique requirements of these communities, and to which the vast 
majority of the state’s K-20 educational institutions are connected. In 
order to facilitate collaboration in education and research, CENIC also 
provides connectivity to non-California institutions and industry 
research organizations with which CENIC’s Associate researchers and 
educators are engaged.

CENIC is governed by its member institutions. Representatives from these 
institutions also donate 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. To learn more, visit www.cenic.org.

About Internet2
Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by 
the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the 
missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network 
capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together 
facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet 
technologies. Internet2 brings the U.S. research and academic community 
together with technology leaders from industry, government and the 
international community to undertake collaborative efforts that have a 
fundamental impact on tomorrow's Internet. For more information, visit: 
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