The Ocean State Higher Education Economic Development and Administrative Network (OSHEAN, pronounced "ocean") is a non-profit coalition of colleges, universities, K-12 school, libraries, hospitals, government agencies and other non-profit organizations, providing Internet-based technology for its member institutions and the communities they serve.
The organization collaboratively delivers and maintains a secure communications infrastructure for Rhode Island's research, education, health care and public service communities.
OSHEAN further branched out to state government in October 2005 when the Rhode Island Department of Administration, now the RI Division of Information Technology, joined the consortium.
In 2021, OSHEAN completed an upgrade of their Layer 2 network architecture to enable 100G backbone connections, EVPN, and segment routing.
Technologies include ultra-broadband access to the Internet and Internet2, managed firewall, business continuity planning, disaster recovery, emergency preparedness, Cisco Umbrella, vulnerability assessment, SD-WAN, web content filtering, VoIP, and private cloud connections to most major providers.