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Welcome to ORNet

Mission Statement
"To form regional partnerships to make investments in technology that promote regional decision making, support economic development, transform research and education, and boost the competitiveness of the Okanagan in a knowledge-based economy. "

Our Purpose
"To encourage and pursue the development of a fiber-based, open-access next-generation network (NGN), equally available to all citizens and service providers, replacing the traditional model of vertically integrated or imperfectly unbundled networks and limited facilities."

 

Case Study
WREPNet:

Ministry of Education in Ontario approved a one-time infrastructure grant of $10 million to an alliance of public sector organizations to manage a public infrastructure in Kitchener Waterloo called WREPNet. WREPNet connects 227 locations through personal computers at each site, including all WCDSB and WRDSB schools in Waterloo Region, school board, municipal and regional government administration offices, and services such as fire stations, recreation facilities and golf courses, public library branches and community college campuses......<more>

Case Study
 Kamloops Community Network:

The Kamloops Community Network will be a publicly owned and operated utility providing the businesses and citizen's of Kamloops with high speed, low cost communications. The benefits include providing businesses in the community with easy, economical access to high-speed network providing an edge, which in turn attracts new businesses to the community - economic development. Service providers will have the freedom to offer new services that take advantage of this open high speed  infrastructure to customers .......<more>

Latest News

Friday, February 10, 2006

ORNet being created

The leadership team for the okanagan regional partnership unanimously declared their support for the creation of the Okanagan Regional Network society. Therefore we are currently pursuing the creation of the ORNet society with founding members and a board of directors representing the entire Okanagan including the Okanagan First Nations, municipalities, school districts and post secondary institutions.

Old News

ORNet being created

Feasibility Study Completed

Where we are at.

In the beginning....

June 2005

October 2005

February 2006