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MCNC, a nonprofit leader in broadband infrastructure, strengthens North Carolina’s future by making secure, high-speed internet, and technology services more accessible to everyone in the state through partnerships, collaboration and innovative solutions.
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For more than four decades, MCNC has been synonymous with a simple, singular mission:
To advance our state and promote digital equity. Our nonprofit has delivered on this mission every day since 1980, and we continue to evolve to serve North Carolina’s anchor institutions with integrity and an eye towards the future.
Innovation
We are tenacious problem solvers who strive to meet the evolving needs and challenges of North Carolina’s anchor institutions with creative solutions. We think beyond today’s processes and technologies to prepare those we serve for the future.
Commitment
We operate with integrity and are accountable and dependable in both our actions and communications. We follow through on our commitments to our clients, community and each other. We always endeavor to do the “right thing.”Testimonials Carousel
“
It is always good to hear from "boots on the ground" staff both informally in conversation as well as the always interesting and informational "Business with Bacon" session.”
Lamar Owen
PARI
“
Meeting was well planned and executed with information that reinforces the mission and activities of MCNC NCREN! Good model for future meetings. Thank you for a great experience.”
Holt Anderson
NCHICA
“
Our teaching and learning strategy had to convert to fully online very quickly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Mediasite certainly helped with that transition. Being able to deploy Mediasite cost effectively through MCNC gave our College and faculty a simple way to record lectures from home.
Arnold Worsley
Distance learning Technical Administrator
Edgecombe Community College
“
On behalf of my entire campus, I want to thank the whole MCNC team for all of the work done in the past few months during the COVID-19 crisis, as well as projects going forward. Providing Zoom Pro licenses has helped our campus greatly during this pandemic. MCNC continues to be one of the best and most reliable partners the State has ever had.
Jonathan Vester
VP of Technology and Chief Information Officer
Nash Community College
“
We’re driven today by partnering with economic development leaders like MCNC to provide real-time education capabilities and job training to build and create jobs in North Carolina. New technology helps these students experience synchronous and asynchronous learning using leading-edge video tools and self-driven/user-driven applications such as Movi at a much lower cost."
Jonathan Vester
VP of Technology and Chief Information Officer
Nash Community College
“
We have been extremely pleased with MCNC's service and the cost savings it provides that we now have every one of our locations on an MCNC connection to their backbone, NCREN.
Phillip Allen
Senior Director of Informatics
Eastern Carolina University School of Dental Medicine
“
The service, support and guidance we receive from MCNC continue to be a vital part of our technology efforts. Our MCNC Internet service, firewall, and cloud-based content filter are all integral to our school's success - and these ultimately allow us to have the tools that fulfill our chartered mission, providing a college prep education for our students. When we have technology issues, our staff can rely on the sound advice and problem-solving ability we always receive whenever we have to seek MCNC Client Network Engineering (CNE) support. We cannot thank MCNC and their staff enough for all that they do to support us.
Jonathan Bryant
Chief Administrator
Lincoln Charter School
“
Great team!”
Butch Rooney
Davie County Schools, K-12 Client
“
Proactive support and monitoring is so appreciated.”
Butch Rooney
Davie County Schools, K-12 Client
“
We are thankful for the superb service we receive from MCNC.”
Community College Client
“
As a small district with limited technical staff, we appreciate any and all services MCNC can provide and support.”
K-12 Client
“
I am thankful to have MCNC to call for technical support, consulting, and the different services you provide to keep our network infrastructure running, stable, and secure. The training you offer at a low cost has benefited our IT team.”
Dale Brinkley
Randolph County School System, K-12 Client
“
Randolph County School System has attended several training classes, obtained a network assessment to use as a road map for better security, and technical support to resolve network connectivity issues and been very pleased with each area of service.”
Dale Brinkley
Randolph County School System, K-12 Client
“
The power of NCREN gives us the ability to share the real science happening at PARI with thousands of students, teachers, researchers, and science enthusiasts throughout North Carolina and all over the world. This level of connectivity is a key component to extending our programs and services to a broader segment of the population."
Don Cline
Founder and President
PARI
“
As more data comes in and out every day, we need high-speed connections to realize all these data sets. We have better download rates now and as others get more speeds soon, we will be ready as we continue to future-proof our infrastructure."
Preston Carter
IT Specialist for Network Operations & Storage
NCDC
“
MCNC is our key partner that helps us achieve our mission of using cyber infrastructure to enable research discoveries and practical problem solving. We have a truly collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship. Whether researchers need high-performance computing, cyber tools for analysis and collaboration or data management solutions, none of it would be possible if we didn’t have robust, reliable, high-performance networking ... without NCREN we would literally be in the dark.”
Stan Ahalt
Director
RENCI
“
We have created a robust network to support the healthcare needs of North Carolina citizens for years to come."
Dave Kirby
President
Kirby Management Consulting and NCTN project manager
“
One of the great things about working with MCNC is that they understand that access to medical applications [through broadband service] is a life and death issue.”
Jean Payne
Daymark Recovery Services
“
The service paid for itself in one phishing attack! When folks clicked the email document, it looked like nothing happened, however, when I investigated, I found out that the document was redirecting them to a site that was being blocked by the DNS filtering service. If it hadn’t been for the DNS Filtering Service, we would have been hit hard.”
Jeffery C Benfield
Chief Information Officer
Mitchell Community College
“
We were very satisfied with our recent Cyber Hygiene Assessment performed by MCNC. It provided an independent look at our operations and made us notice deficiencies that we had not yet discovered or considered. Thank you for making this service available to school systems."
Dave Scherping
Assistant Superintendent/Technology Director
Polk County Schools
“
Outstanding technical support provided during planning and installation of E-rate Category 2 equipment.”
David Ennis and Alison Nack
Raleigh Charter High School, K-12 Client
“
We could not provide the services we currently enjoy with a K-12 budget in a small district! Training and consulting resources are a must, developing our staff expertise and augmenting human resources.”
Nancy Zeiss
Watauga County Schools, K-12 Client
“
As a small college, it’s been tremendously valuable to have a team of security professionals we can reach out to when we need guidance. MCNC’s Advisory Services helped us maintain operations during a staff vacancy, and even now that we’re fully staffed, we continue to rely on them for advice, consulting and perspective when our team has questions of concerns. MCNC has been a great partner for years in bandwidth and hosting, and it’s great to get their help in security, too.”
Kevin Davis
Chief Information Officer
Davidson College Technology & Innovation
“
Our engagement with MCNC Advisory Consulting Services has been tremendously helpful. Their skilled and knowledgeable staff has helped us build a plan of action to address our issues and we appreciate the expertise they bring to the table.”
Sherri Yerk-Zwickl
Associate Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
Campbell University
“
We’ve found the MCNC Ethernet service to be very fast and quite reliable. We are fortunate to have their service available near a rural library location where broadband was not available to us by a commercial vendor. Their pricing is more than competitive, and they communicated well with us during the installation process."
Jonathan P. Wark
Director
East Albemarle Regional Library System & Dare County Librarian
“
I can't say enough good things about MCNC. Their service and support has been exemplary in every particular. For quality and reliability, they simply can't be beaten."
Roman Leary
Edgecombe Library
“
MCNC exists for the benefit of North Carolina and is one of our state's greatest assets. MCNC is comprised of talented people who place a high value on customer service. I am honored to be part of such a customer-focused organization and one that is dedicated to being North Carolina’s partner for great ideas and state-of-the-art technology.”
Hope Williams
President
North Carolina Independent College and Universities (NCICU)
“
Since its award of the BTOP grants to expand broadband in North Carolina, MCNC has been committed to the principles and value of open interconnect networks. MCNC seeks to work with providers to expand commercial broadband to rural areas of North Carolina to serve residents and businesses alike so that all have equal access to premier broadband. We welcome opportunities to speak with any provider committed to this same value and we can be creative in customizing solutions.”
Tommy Jacobson
Vice President & COO
MCNC
“
Highly reliable service with great customer service and support.”
University client
“
We are very pleased with the services we receive from MCNC. The MCNC team members that support us understand our business and genuinely care that we are receiving the highest quality services possible. We also like the way in which they are growing their portfolio of services.”
University client
“
We love it. Cost effective, easy to configure, use, and works perfectly.
Doug Denton
Technology Services
Johnston County Public Schools
“
MCNC gave me peace of mind to safely give our users remote access. So far I have 80 users using Secure Application Access to work from home during this pandemic outbreak. It's definitely worth the money.
Wayman J. White
Director of Management Information Services
College of The Albemarle
“
Very effective services that would be more difficult and expensive to provide on our own.”
University client
“
Security solutions and training you offer are very important to protecting the K12 network environment especially due to our budget restraints.We are glad MCNC offers these services and provides support if needed. We also feel these services help to make our infrastructure more stable and secure.”
Dale Brinkley
Randolph County School System, K-12 Client
“
Active Vulnerability Analysis is very helpful information and we are already turning it into actionable items for us to improve our security posture.
Thank you for your support on this new resource. It is already proving to be a good asset."
MCNC K-12 Client
“
I'm proud to work for MCNC where it is clear that the team cares about our community and our mission. I don't feel the clock in and out drudgery of a typical corporate job. Instead, I'm inspired almost daily working alongside these amazing people to support our community and bring about positive change.”
Ruthy Mabe
MCNC
“
As one of many employees approaching two decades of service here at MCNC, it should come as no surprise that there are many reasons to love working here. Top on everyone's list is our shared passion for being of service to our community. It is an honor to be part of a team whose collective skill, drive, and devotion to their work steadily results in the continued expansion of accessibility and enhanced quality of services made available for education, healthcare, and other community institutions in the state we all proudly call home.”
Nickyla Britton
MCNC
“
MCNC provides many opportunities for learning, growth, and has a unique family environment where everyone is approachable, helpful, and dedicated to the success and goals of the company. The level of professionalism, respect, and camaraderie at MCNC is rare and I truly enjoy coming to work each day.”
Danielle Healy
MCNC
“
I love working at MCNC! I get to work with really smart people that are focused on solving hard challenges for the education, research, and government communities in NC. We have fun, get to work with cool technology, and the work is meaningful. What could be better?”
Chris Beal
MCNC
“
"Thank you again for trusting me with your participants. I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to work with you and your team, and I must say that I've spoken at several conferences over the years but the effort and delivery from your team was by far second to none.”
DeQuan Jones
IT Support Analyst
UNC Greensboro
“
"I enjoy discussions with attendees and presentations. Reinforcing common goals.”
Henry Schaffer
NC State University
“
Loved the two keynotes and networking time.”
University client
“
[I enjoy the] collegiality among community members, the contacts/info from peers, *public sector perspective* you don't get anywhere else!”
Melissa Thibault
NC School of Science and Mathematics
“
You all did a great job!!! Loved the event!”
Belva Lovitt
Sampson County Schools
“
[I enjoy] the opportunity to network with others.”
Rick Schewendiman
Davidson Community College
“
I enjoy the community and camaraderie of the MCNC organization and community.”
Donald Beck
Davidson Community College
“
Excellent, timely information in the presentation topics. Very well-coordinated event.”
Ross Yannayon
“
Breakout and keynote sessions.... wide, relevant, and interesting. [Enjoyed the] diversity and networking.”
Doug Noell
Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools
“
It is always good to hear from "boots on the ground" staff both informally in conversation as well as the always interesting and informational "Business with Bacon" session.”
Lamar Owen
PARI
“
Meeting was well planned and executed with information that reinforces the mission and activities of MCNC NCREN! Good model for future meetings. Thank you for a great experience.”
Holt Anderson
NCHICA
“
Our teaching and learning strategy had to convert to fully online very quickly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Mediasite certainly helped with that transition. Being able to deploy Mediasite cost effectively through MCNC gave our College and faculty a simple way to record lectures from home.
Arnold Worsley
Distance learning Technical Administrator
Edgecombe Community College
“
On behalf of my entire campus, I want to thank the whole MCNC team for all of the work done in the past few months during the COVID-19 crisis, as well as projects going forward. Providing Zoom Pro licenses has helped our campus greatly during this pandemic. MCNC continues to be one of the best and most reliable partners the State has ever had.
Jonathan Vester
VP of Technology and Chief Information Officer
Nash Community College
“
We’re driven today by partnering with economic development leaders like MCNC to provide real-time education capabilities and job training to build and create jobs in North Carolina. New technology helps these students experience synchronous and asynchronous learning using leading-edge video tools and self-driven/user-driven applications such as Movi at a much lower cost."
Jonathan Vester
VP of Technology and Chief Information Officer
Nash Community College
“
We have been extremely pleased with MCNC's service and the cost savings it provides that we now have every one of our locations on an MCNC connection to their backbone, NCREN.
Phillip Allen
Senior Director of Informatics
Eastern Carolina University School of Dental Medicine
“
The service, support and guidance we receive from MCNC continue to be a vital part of our technology efforts. Our MCNC Internet service, firewall, and cloud-based content filter are all integral to our school's success - and these ultimately allow us to have the tools that fulfill our chartered mission, providing a college prep education for our students. When we have technology issues, our staff can rely on the sound advice and problem-solving ability we always receive whenever we have to seek MCNC Client Network Engineering (CNE) support. We cannot thank MCNC and their staff enough for all that they do to support us.
Jonathan Bryant
Chief Administrator
Lincoln Charter School
“
Great team!”
Butch Rooney
Davie County Schools, K-12 Client
“
Proactive support and monitoring is so appreciated.”
Butch Rooney
Davie County Schools, K-12 Client
“
We are thankful for the superb service we receive from MCNC.”
Community College Client
“
As a small district with limited technical staff, we appreciate any and all services MCNC can provide and support.”
K-12 Client
“
I am thankful to have MCNC to call for technical support, consulting, and the different services you provide to keep our network infrastructure running, stable, and secure. The training you offer at a low cost has benefited our IT team.”
Dale Brinkley
Randolph County School System, K-12 Client
“
Randolph County School System has attended several training classes, obtained a network assessment to use as a road map for better security, and technical support to resolve network connectivity issues and been very pleased with each area of service.”
Dale Brinkley
Randolph County School System, K-12 Client
“
The power of NCREN gives us the ability to share the real science happening at PARI with thousands of students, teachers, researchers, and science enthusiasts throughout North Carolina and all over the world. This level of connectivity is a key component to extending our programs and services to a broader segment of the population."
Don Cline
Founder and President
PARI
“
As more data comes in and out every day, we need high-speed connections to realize all these data sets. We have better download rates now and as others get more speeds soon, we will be ready as we continue to future-proof our infrastructure."
Preston Carter
IT Specialist for Network Operations & Storage
NCDC
“
MCNC is our key partner that helps us achieve our mission of using cyber infrastructure to enable research discoveries and practical problem solving. We have a truly collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship. Whether researchers need high-performance computing, cyber tools for analysis and collaboration or data management solutions, none of it would be possible if we didn’t have robust, reliable, high-performance networking ... without NCREN we would literally be in the dark.”
Stan Ahalt
Director
RENCI
“
We have created a robust network to support the healthcare needs of North Carolina citizens for years to come."
Dave Kirby
President
Kirby Management Consulting and NCTN project manager
“
One of the great things about working with MCNC is that they understand that access to medical applications [through broadband service] is a life and death issue.”
Jean Payne
Daymark Recovery Services
“
The service paid for itself in one phishing attack! When folks clicked the email document, it looked like nothing happened, however, when I investigated, I found out that the document was redirecting them to a site that was being blocked by the DNS filtering service. If it hadn’t been for the DNS Filtering Service, we would have been hit hard.”
Jeffery C Benfield
Chief Information Officer
Mitchell Community College
“
We were very satisfied with our recent Cyber Hygiene Assessment performed by MCNC. It provided an independent look at our operations and made us notice deficiencies that we had not yet discovered or considered. Thank you for making this service available to school systems."
Dave Scherping
Assistant Superintendent/Technology Director
Polk County Schools
“
Outstanding technical support provided during planning and installation of E-rate Category 2 equipment.”
David Ennis and Alison Nack
Raleigh Charter High School, K-12 Client
“
We could not provide the services we currently enjoy with a K-12 budget in a small district! Training and consulting resources are a must, developing our staff expertise and augmenting human resources.”
Nancy Zeiss
Watauga County Schools, K-12 Client
“
As a small college, it’s been tremendously valuable to have a team of security professionals we can reach out to when we need guidance. MCNC’s Advisory Services helped us maintain operations during a staff vacancy, and even now that we’re fully staffed, we continue to rely on them for advice, consulting and perspective when our team has questions of concerns. MCNC has been a great partner for years in bandwidth and hosting, and it’s great to get their help in security, too.”
Kevin Davis
Chief Information Officer
Davidson College Technology & Innovation
“
Our engagement with MCNC Advisory Consulting Services has been tremendously helpful. Their skilled and knowledgeable staff has helped us build a plan of action to address our issues and we appreciate the expertise they bring to the table.”
Sherri Yerk-Zwickl
Associate Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
Campbell University
“
We’ve found the MCNC Ethernet service to be very fast and quite reliable. We are fortunate to have their service available near a rural library location where broadband was not available to us by a commercial vendor. Their pricing is more than competitive, and they communicated well with us during the installation process."
Jonathan P. Wark
Director
East Albemarle Regional Library System & Dare County Librarian
“
I can't say enough good things about MCNC. Their service and support has been exemplary in every particular. For quality and reliability, they simply can't be beaten."
Roman Leary
Edgecombe Library
“
MCNC exists for the benefit of North Carolina and is one of our state's greatest assets. MCNC is comprised of talented people who place a high value on customer service. I am honored to be part of such a customer-focused organization and one that is dedicated to being North Carolina’s partner for great ideas and state-of-the-art technology.”
Hope Williams
President
North Carolina Independent College and Universities (NCICU)
“
Since its award of the BTOP grants to expand broadband in North Carolina, MCNC has been committed to the principles and value of open interconnect networks. MCNC seeks to work with providers to expand commercial broadband to rural areas of North Carolina to serve residents and businesses alike so that all have equal access to premier broadband. We welcome opportunities to speak with any provider committed to this same value and we can be creative in customizing solutions.”
Tommy Jacobson
Vice President & COO
MCNC
“
Highly reliable service with great customer service and support.”
University client
“
We are very pleased with the services we receive from MCNC. The MCNC team members that support us understand our business and genuinely care that we are receiving the highest quality services possible. We also like the way in which they are growing their portfolio of services.”
University client
“
We love it. Cost effective, easy to configure, use, and works perfectly.
Doug Denton
Technology Services
Johnston County Public Schools
“
MCNC gave me peace of mind to safely give our users remote access. So far I have 80 users using Secure Application Access to work from home during this pandemic outbreak. It's definitely worth the money.
Wayman J. White
Director of Management Information Services
College of The Albemarle
“
Very effective services that would be more difficult and expensive to provide on our own.”
University client
“
Security solutions and training you offer are very important to protecting the K12 network environment especially due to our budget restraints.We are glad MCNC offers these services and provides support if needed. We also feel these services help to make our infrastructure more stable and secure.”
Dale Brinkley
Randolph County School System, K-12 Client
“
Active Vulnerability Analysis is very helpful information and we are already turning it into actionable items for us to improve our security posture.
Thank you for your support on this new resource. It is already proving to be a good asset."
MCNC K-12 Client
“
I'm proud to work for MCNC where it is clear that the team cares about our community and our mission. I don't feel the clock in and out drudgery of a typical corporate job. Instead, I'm inspired almost daily working alongside these amazing people to support our community and bring about positive change.”
Ruthy Mabe
MCNC
“
As one of many employees approaching two decades of service here at MCNC, it should come as no surprise that there are many reasons to love working here. Top on everyone's list is our shared passion for being of service to our community. It is an honor to be part of a team whose collective skill, drive, and devotion to their work steadily results in the continued expansion of accessibility and enhanced quality of services made available for education, healthcare, and other community institutions in the state we all proudly call home.”
Nickyla Britton
MCNC
“
MCNC provides many opportunities for learning, growth, and has a unique family environment where everyone is approachable, helpful, and dedicated to the success and goals of the company. The level of professionalism, respect, and camaraderie at MCNC is rare and I truly enjoy coming to work each day.”
Danielle Healy
MCNC
“
I love working at MCNC! I get to work with really smart people that are focused on solving hard challenges for the education, research, and government communities in NC. We have fun, get to work with cool technology, and the work is meaningful. What could be better?”
Chris Beal
MCNC
“
"Thank you again for trusting me with your participants. I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to work with you and your team, and I must say that I've spoken at several conferences over the years but the effort and delivery from your team was by far second to none.”
DeQuan Jones
IT Support Analyst
UNC Greensboro
“
"I enjoy discussions with attendees and presentations. Reinforcing common goals.”
Henry Schaffer
NC State University
“
Loved the two keynotes and networking time.”
University client
“
[I enjoy the] collegiality among community members, the contacts/info from peers, *public sector perspective* you don't get anywhere else!”
Melissa Thibault
NC School of Science and Mathematics
“
You all did a great job!!! Loved the event!”
Belva Lovitt
Sampson County Schools
“
[I enjoy] the opportunity to network with others.”
Rick Schewendiman
Davidson Community College
“
I enjoy the community and camaraderie of the MCNC organization and community.”
Donald Beck
Davidson Community College
“
Excellent, timely information in the presentation topics. Very well-coordinated event.”
Ross Yannayon
“
Breakout and keynote sessions.... wide, relevant, and interesting. [Enjoyed the] diversity and networking.”
Doug Noell
Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools
“
It is always good to hear from "boots on the ground" staff both informally in conversation as well as the always interesting and informational "Business with Bacon" session.”
Lamar Owen
PARI
“
Meeting was well planned and executed with information that reinforces the mission and activities of MCNC NCREN! Good model for future meetings. Thank you for a great experience.”
Holt Anderson
NCHICA
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