_{Southeastern Universities Research Association
(SURA)}

The original Internet in the South was organized by cooperating universities with SURA acting as an umbrella organization.  The name of this network was SuraNet .  UAB was a charter member of SuraNet and set up the first non-military Internet node in the state of Alabama. 

In early 1998, SURA called a meeting focused on information technology; SoX was organized out of this meeting.
 

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UAB has been a leader in activities within the SURA region:

• Gulf Central GigaPoP
  High performance research and education network for the State of Alabama.

• ViDe
  Jill Gemmill of UAB is a co-author of the videoconferencing cookbook, and currently serves as chair-elect of ViDe.  UAB School of Medicine was selected to participate in the Large Scale Video Network Prototype project funded by SURA.

• Advanced Network Applications Workshop
  UAB hosted this Fall 1999 SURA workshop. This conference is the larges one ever held by SURA, with over 165 people  attending.

• Health Sciences Workshop
  Based on the interest in telemedicine and biomedical applications at the 1999 Applications workshop, SURA began a Health Sciences initiative.

• Internet2 PKI Proposal
  UAB participated in a proposal from SURA institutions, in response to an RFP from UCAID.