non profit organization industry education data networking public broadcasting founded 1989 headquarters university of utah salt lake city utah website http www.uen.org the statewide utah education network is headquartered at the eccles broadcast center in salt lake city . the utah education network uen is a broadband and digital broadcast network serving public education higher education applied technology campuses libraries and public charter schools throughout the state of utah . 1 the network facilitates interactive video conferencing provides instructional support services and operates a public television station kuen on behalf of the utah state board of regents . 2 uen services benefit more than 60 000 faculty and staff and more than 780 000 students from pre schoolers in head start programs through grandparents in graduate school . uen headquarters are in salt lake city at the eccles broadcast center on the university of utah campus . 3 contents 1 history 2 key services 3 how uen is funded 4 where uen serves 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit the utah state legislature formally established uen in 1989 4 but the statewide collaboration of public education and higher education started more than two decades earlier when kued channel 7 signed on the air in 1958 . the station built translator towers to beam its signal to remote communities and eventually the station placed analog microwave equipment on some of those towers enabling two way teleconferencing for education and government . the system was initially named setoc state educational technical operations center renamed as ednet and is now uen ivc interactive video conferencing . in december 1986 kulc channel 9 now uen tv started broadcasting as utah s learning channel and in 1994 uen started utahlink the internet component of the network . all of those services now operate as the utah education network . uen tv and sister station kued were broadcasting digitally by june 2012 5 but experiments in statewide digital broadcasting were underway as early as 2004 . 6 key services edit three infrastructure services are integral to uen s mission of networking for education . students parents educators and local communities all benefit from these services . they include networking services to extend and maintain uen s broadband and digital tv networks including the uen wide area network internet access and filtering and securing monitoring . application services to provide video conferencing library and learning management resources at high efficiency through shared support and statewide purchasing discounts . support services to assist the users of uen infrastructure and hosting including teachers faculty librarians and regional support centers . how uen is funded edit uen is funded by the public through an annual state appropriation e rate reimbursements from the fcc s universal service fund and from local state and federal grants . in fiscal year 2013 uen funding totaled 38.2 million with about 45 % 17.4 million appropriated by the utah state legislature . 7 through public private partnerships with local telecommunications companies uen sustains local economic development with 16.5 million of networking services budget paid to utah telecommunication providers for leased circuits . where uen serves edit uen s geographic reach stretches from logan to st. george and from the grouse creek to navajo mountain . the network connects more than 1000 public schools nine state colleges and universities and eight applied technology campuses . those connections serve more than 841 000 students teachers faculty and staff . 8 see also edit eccles broadcast center kuen uen tv kued kuer references edit park city superintendent tapped to lead utah education network . 2012 august 31 . salt lake tribune . retrieved from http www.sltrib.com sltrib news 54804632 78 utah education superintendent uen.html.csp utah education network and university of utah select ciena for optical network . 2013 march 12 . hpc wire . retrieved from http www.hpcwire.com hpcwire 2013 03 12 utah education network and university of utah select ciena for optical network.html utah state legislature 2006 . utah code annotated title 53b 17 101 . retrieved from state of utah website http le.utah.gov code title53b htm 53b17 010100.htm utah state legislature 2012 . utah code annotated title 53b 17 102 . retrieved from state of utah website http le.utah.gov code title53b htm 53b17 010200.htm horiuchi v. 2009 february 04 . congress delays digital tv switch until juine ; utah sticks to original cutoff . salt lake tribune . retrieved from http www.sltrib.com news ci 11628657 parsons k. 2004 april 01 . utah dtv translates into free over the air television . broadcast engineering retrieved from http broadcastengineering.com mag utah dtv translates free over air television ball j. utah state legislature office of the legislative fiscal analyst . 2012 . 2012 2013 appropriations report p. 108 . retrieved from state of utah website http le.utah.gov lfa reports fy2013appropriationsreport.pdf 2013 . utah broadband project improves communication at special needs school . the quilt circle 2013 edition 9 . retrieved from http www.thequilt.net images stories attachments thequiltcircle2013 web.pdf external links edit utah education network uen tv voteutah.org kued s utah election information query the fcc s tv station database for kuen utah coalition for educational technology v t e research and education computer networks in the americas national brazil rnp canada canarie mexico cudi latin america redclara usa internet2 national lambdarail esnet state regional other acorn ns calren cen icn merit network nysernet oarnet orion oshean risq srnet uen historical abilene arpanet ddn csnet gigabit chicago gigabit seattle nearnet niprnet nsfnet suranet vbns see also national research and education network retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title utah education network & oldid 713468909 categories education in utahorganizations established in 1989academic computer network organizationshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 april 2016 at 06 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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