Kansas universities get $1.2M to upgrade data network - Kansas City Business Journal

"Kansas’ system of universities is receiving $1.176 million from the National Science Foundation to upgrade the data network they use to swap research data. Once completed, the project — called Prairie Light: Next Generation Optical Networking for Mid Continent Science — will increase bandwidth and reliability of the Kansas Research and Education Network, or KanREN, helping the universities acquire and study large masses of information and collaborate on research even through individual researchers might be miles away from one another...."