LEADERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT


Link Oregon welcomes our next executive director, Dr. Jackie Wirz. A seasoned educator, researcher and non-profit leader, Jackie has already joined the team in a transitional capacity and will assume the leadership role on July 1, upon the retirement of founding executive director Steve Corbató. Jackie is an energetic leader who brings deep Oregon roots and a commitment to expanding the reach and impact of Link Oregon’s state-of-the-art middle mile network for the benefit of all Oregonians. We invite you to meet Jackie in person at our upcoming annual member meeting on June 26th.

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Annual Member Meeting

Link Oregon is hosting its first in-person annual member meeting on June 26th, 2025. All are invited to attend. The all-day event will take place at the Portland Metro campus of Oregon Institute of Technology, in Wilsonville, OR. Check out our agenda and the roster of guest speakers and panelists from education, higher ed, IT, government and the tech ecosystem who are joining us to share their perspectives on the state of broadband in Oregon, best practices on cybersecurity, network automation, disaster resilience, emerging trends such as quantum networking and more! Registration is required and open now.

Who We Are

Link Oregon is a federally tax-exempt 501(c)(3) Oregon non-profit organization and the Research and Education Network (REN) for the state of Oregon, serving the public and non-profit sectors. We operate a statewide middle mile fiber optic infrastructure spanning over 2500 miles that delivers state-of-the-art broadband services to our member organizations. We collaborate with a vast network of ecosystem partners, spanning commercial telecom providers, legislators, broadband policy leaders, digital equity advocates and non-profit affiliates who are vital to our mission to expand high-speed broadband connectivity across the state for a future-ready Oregon.

Link Oregon Founding Members

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Portland State Universty logo
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“Link Oregon’s broadband services for Internet transit have provided rock-solid connectivity to our employees and over 21,000 students at Portland State University. Their high-speed networking is critical for research at our institution that relies on computationally dense data workloads, such as cybersecurity, geohazard simulation and atmospheric modeling. Link Oregon’s network will also support our newest high performance computing (HPC) cluster funded by the National Science Foundation’s Campus Cybersecurity Program. We look forward to ongoing collaborations with their amazing team of network engineers on strategic initiatives that go beyond basic Internet connectivity.”

– Ryan Bass, Chief Information Officer, Portland State University

Who We Serve

Our services are available to all public and non-profit entities in Oregon, including K-12 schools and Educational Service Districts (ESDs), community colleges and universities, public and non-profit hospitals and clinics, city and county government, Tribes, libraries and community anchor institutions.

Members benefit from our seasoned leadership, deep domain experience in networking, telecommunications partnerships and understanding of Oregon’s broadband ecosystem. Learn more about the services we provide to our member institutions.

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Link Oregon Blog

  • Link Oregon Year in Review (2024): A Sharper Focus on Oregon Research Innovation December 30, 2024 In 2024, we continued to deliver on our core mission of broadband connectivity for Oregon’s public and non-profit sectors with a persistent focus on member service and delight. In a world where connectivity is a premium yet mostly invisible “utility”, we firmly believe that operators of Research and Education Networks (RENs) will continue to move […]
  • Professor Ram Durairajan, University of Oregon, Joins Link Oregon as Chief Scientist for Sabbatical July 17, 2024 Exploring new technologies for advanced networking security and performance is critical to Link Oregon’s mission of providing state-of-the-art broadband services to all its members, and especially for research computing. This summer, Ram Durairajan, Associate Professor, School of Computer and Data Sciences at the University of Oregon, joins us on his sabbatical year as our Chief […]
  • 2024 Annual Member Meeting Highlights June 27, 2024 The full recording is available here. Link Oregon’s annual member meeting for 2024, held on June 24th via Zoom, brought together a diverse community of members and partners in the broadband ecosystem from Oregon and across the country to share insights about broadband and digital equity efforts. Panelists included local, statewide and regional leaders from […]
  • Strategic Middle Mile Investments Can Minimize Last Mile Islands but Choosing Right Fiber is Key June 1, 2024 In 2023, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded a grant to Zayo Group, LLC for $48 million to address a long-standing set of middle mile needs in Oregon as well as parts of California and Nevad.. The grant was part of NTIA’s Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, a $980 million program which […]
  • Member Feature: Oregon State University’s Mission to Expand Access to Higher Ed May 24, 2024 Oregon State University (OSU), one of Link Oregon’s founding members, is emerging as a premier national interdisciplinary research hub for supercomputing and AI, across diverse domains such as robotics, climate science, materials science and sustainability. Andrea Ballinger, OSU CIO and Link Oregon Board Member, is leading digital transformation initiatives across the university. She talked to […]
  • With Artificial Intelligence, Fiber Optic Broadband Finds Its Ultimate App April 19, 2024 Last week, one of Link Oregon’s founding members—Oregon State University—celebrated the groundbreaking of the Jen-Hsun Huang and Lori Mills Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex, which will be home to one of the world’s fastest university supercomputers capable of training very large artificial intelligence (AI) models and advancing research in other computationally-intensive domains such as materials science, […]
  • 2023 In Review: Laying The Groundwork For Broadband & Digital Equity For All Oregonians December 29, 2023 As we prepare to see 2023 in our rear-view mirrors, what stands out the most is the significant body of activity undertaken this year by the State of Oregon (led by the Oregon Broadband Office or the “OBO”) to lay the groundwork for anticipated historic levels of broadband investment by the National Telecommunications and Information […]

Events

Link Oregon Annual Member Meeting

Jun 26, 2025
9:00am-4:30pm
Location: Oregon Tech – Portland Metro Campus

Join us for our in-person member meeting this summer! The event will take place at the Oregon Institute of Technology – Portland Metro Campus, located approximately 17 miles south of downtown Portland in Wilsonville, OR. Agenda, registration, and other details are available here.

Link Oregon Board Meeting

Jun 26, 2025
1:45-3:00pm PDT
Location: Oregon Tech Portland Metro Campus | 27500 SW Parkway Ave, Wilsonville, OR 97070

Link Oregon Board meetings are open to the public. The June 26 Board meeting will take place during the Annual Member Meeting. To request an interpreter for the hearing impaired or for other accommodations, contact info@linkoregon.org at least 2 business days prior to the meeting date.

Past Events

Our Members

Benton County Oregon
Blue Mountian Community College
Bushnell University
City of Corvalis
Corvalis-Benton County Public LIbrary
Eastern Oregon University
Eugene Water & Electric Board
Eugene
Hermiston Oregon
High Desert ESD
InterMountain Education Service District
Klamath Community College
Lane Community College
Lane Transit District
Linn-Benton Community College
Malheur ESD
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Oregon Institute of Technology
Portland Community College
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Southern Oregon ESD
Southern Oregon University
Springfield Public Schools
Springfield Utility Board
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Western Oregon University