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Serving Independent Research Labs and Research Non-Profits

KeystoneREN is a collaborative community of education, healthcare, economic development, libraries, government and public media organizations that utilize the statewide high-performance Research and Education Network. By offering essential services and exceptional client support, KeystoneREN will help your research institution achieve its mission and goals through the ongoing discovery, application and transfer of new network technologies. KeystoneREN provides access to connectivity, content, and collaboration.

KeystoneREN believes in the strength of a vibrant, collaborative research community that can work with leading technology firms to address challenges of common interest for the common good. By connecting organizations, building relationships and sharing services, research institutions can achieve far more together than they can alone.

Why Research Loves KeystoneREN

  • Assures researchers have a world class advanced network connection that enables services ranging from connecting to Internet2 to peering with top cloud providers, national labs and networks such as ESnet and NWave, and global collaborators and research partners worldwide.
  • Connects entities for research and development-based collaboration.
  • Provides an opportunity to aggregate services for research organizations at affordable costs, leveraging economies of scale while supporting your unique research requirements. 
  • Provides access to affordable cost-effective technology and services.
  • Facilitates professional development and helps research communities to engage in professional learning communities and access new resources such as robust datasets, expertise, and gateways and portals.


Making the Difference in Research

  • Enables the exchange of large volumes of data quickly and provides immediate, on demand solutions for extreme data demands with increasingly complex compliance needs.
  • Provides access to specialized national and international resources, such as world-class equipment and specialized data sets.
  • Enables access to high performance computing at partner institutions and government research labs.
  • Helps researchers collaborate more on research projects over a distance, such as international collaboration and science driven discovery.

KeystoneREN’s High Speed High Capacity Network

The network provides advanced network connectivity to non-profit organizations across  Pennsylvania. It enables value-added services like Ultra (4K) high-definition (UHD) video, telepresence or videoconferencing, and data sharing. The collaborative environment also provides opportunities for member institutions to share best practices, content and programs across the network and save costs using KMEX, the KeystoneREN Member Exchange.

Interested in accessing these services? Contact us at [email protected] for more information or or call 717. 963.7490 Ext. 2 to speak to a KeystoneREN network support specialist to help.