Utah Education Network

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The Utah Education Network (UEN) is a not-for-profit consortium of higher and public education, libraries, state government and business. UEN’s high speed computer network connects Utah colleges and universities as well as the state’s school districts and libraries. The Network facilitates interactive video conferencing, provides instructional support services, and operates a public television station on behalf of the Utah State Board of Regents. UEN services benefit more 750,000 students and educators throughout the state of Utah.

History

The Utah State Legislature formally established UEN in 1989, 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 later engineers placed microwave equipment on some of those towers enabling two-way teleconferencing for education and government. In 1987, 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. Today all three delivery systems (broadcasting, teleconferencing and Internet data communications) operate under the UEN name.

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