SUBJECT: Co‐Location Agreement With MCNC and Lincoln County IT for BTOP DATE: October 3rd, 2011September 22nd, 2011
FiledSeptember 22nd, 2011MCNC (originally funded by North Carolina General Assembly in 1980 as the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina) is an independent, non‐profit organization that utilizes Internet technologies to improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K‐20 education community. In 2009, MCNC teamed up with North Carolina education, government and business communities to connect all 115 K‐12 public school districts to a network known as NCREN (North Carolina Research and Education Network) which is one of the nation’s first reliable and cost‐efficient statewide regional optical networks.