This past year has been an exciting time of rapid change. The Alliance for Higher Education is now located in the new Center for Collaborative Learning, Research, and Communications Technology at 2602 Rutford Avenue in Richardson near the campus of The University of Texas at Dallas. This facility houses technological capabilities that are the best of what is available worldwide.

Members also have access to the classrooms, meeting rooms, and videoconferencing facilities in the Alliance’s new building. Our state-of-the-art distance learning center also includes a technology platform (television, Internet, fiber connections, streaming video, etc.) that can quickly and directly access worldwide corporate and academic locations.

There is also a new player in the high performance internetworking arena called Internet2. The Alliance for Higher Education is in the center of this flurry of activity with the launch of the Alliance Internet2 GigaPoP. Internet2 will support new distance education activities and collaborative research. Current members of the Alliance GigaPoP include Alcatel, Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University, The University of Texas at Arlington, The University of Texas at Dallas, and the University of North Texas.