connect • communicate • collaborate

Transforming the way researchers collaborate

Through interconnections with Europe’sNational Research and Education Networks(NRENs) GÉANT serves some 40 million users in40 countries across the continent. The provisionof worldwide connectivity through extendedlinks with other regional networks gives GÉANTunrivalled geographical coverage. Together withits high transmission speeds, reliability,innovative networking technology and range ofuser services and applications, GÉANT remainsthe most advanced international network in theworld.

Co-funded by Europe’s NRENs and the EuropeanCommission (EC) under the Seventh FrameworkProgramme for Research and TechnologicalDevelopment (FP7), the GÉANT network, alongwith associated development activities, is in itsthird generation.

GÉANT’s core objective is to deliver real valueand benefit to society by enabling researchcommunities across Europe, and the world, totransform the way they collaborate on ground-breaking research.

The GÉANT project advances all aspects ofEuropean research and education networking,encompassing:• The fast and reliable GÉANT network.

• A portfolio of advanced connectivity,network support and access services forNRENs, projects, institutions and end users.

• Initiatives to address the digital divide inresearch and education networking aroundEurope.

• Technological research to ensure GÉANTcontinues to be at the forefront ofnetworking on a global scale.

GÉANT is building on the success of itspredecessors. The previous GÉANT project(2004–2009) focused on establishing theworld’s most advanced network of its type,using innovative hybrid technology to deliver aflexible service model. With this now in place,the new GÉANT project will focus, incollaboration with the NRENs, on thedevelopment and introduction of an enhancedportfolio of tools and services to enable theresearch and education community to benefitfrom the best performance possible from thenetwork.

The project partners are 32 European NRENs,DANTE and TERENA, with DANTE providingoverall coordination of the project.

Developing the GÉANT Service Area

Users rely on secure and seamless access to thenetwork and resources they require. The datathey exchange in collaborating with their peersacross the globe often travels across multiplenetwork domains, creating the need fortransparent point-to-point connectivity andcooperative network management.

To deliver this, the pan-European GÉANTbackbone network and European nationalnetworks combine to create the GÉANT ServiceArea, a common pan-European serviceinfrastructure that enables a range of advancednetwork services and applications to be offeredat a national level by NRENs.

Together with Europe's NRENs, GÉANT connects 40 millionusers in over 8,000 institutions across 40 countries.

The GÉANT network is thehigh-bandwidth, high-

performance pan-Europeancommunications

infrastructure servingEurope’s research andeducation community.

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DANTE www.dante.netTERENA www.terena.orgACOnet Austria www.aco.netAMRES Serbia www.amres.ac.rsARNES Slovenia www.arnes.siBELNET Belgium www.belnet.beBREN Bulgaria www.bren.acad.bgCARNet Croatia www.carnet.hrCESNET Czech Republic www.cesnet.czCYNET Cyprus www.cynet.ac.cyDFN Germany www.dfn.deEENet Estonia www.eenet.eeFCCN Portugal www.fccn.ptGARR Italy www.garr.itGRNET Greece www.grnet.grHEAnet Ireland www.heanet.ieIUCC Israel www.iucc.ac.ilJANET UK www.ja.netLITNET Lithuania www.litnet.ltMARNet F.Y.R. Macedonia dns.marnet.net.mk

MREN Montenegro www.mren.ac.meNIIF Hungary www.niif.huNORDUnet Nordic region www.nordu.netPSNC Poland www.man.poznan.plRedIRIS Spain www.rediris.esRENATER France www.renater.frRESTENA Luxembourg www.restena.luRoEduNet Romania www.roedu.netSANET Slovakia www.sanet.skSigmaNet Latvia www.sigmanet.lvSURFnet Netherlands www.surfnet.nlSWITCH Switzerland www.switch.chULAKBIM Turkey www.ulakbim.gov.trUoM Malta www.um.edu.mt

Associate NRENsBASNET Belarus www.bas-net.byJSCC Russia www.jscc.ruRENAM Moldova www.renam.mdURAN Ukraine www.uran.net.ua

Project Partners

GÉANT – A Gateway for European Research

What is Research and EducationNetworking?

Research and education networking allowsresearchers and academics, teachers andstudents to collaborate, sharing information andfacilities via a series of interconnectingelectronic networks. These networks form aseparate part of the Internet, reserved for theresearch and education community. Usingresearch networks, academics and researcherscan collaborate across different countries andcontinents throughout the world.

Research networks serve two primary purposes:• They support the work of researchers and

academics by providing a high-capacity datacommunications infrastructure that allowsthe rapid transfer of large amounts of data.

• In addition, they form a research tool in theirown right, by providing a platform on whichresearchers and innovators can develop andtest new network technologies and services.

Great advances in research networking have beenmade possible by the revolution in the telecom-munications sector. Much of today’s networkcommunications technology was developed usingresearch networks, and much of tomorrow’sconsumer communications technology is alreadya reality in the research sector.

GÉANT at the Heart of the EuropeanResearch Area

The GÉANT network is fundamental to theEuropean Union’s (EU) vision of a EuropeanResearch Area (ERA), a policy initiative for aborder-free zone for research. The EU is creatingthe ERA by:• Networking leading research institutions

together to produce European “centres ofexcellence” through closer cooperation.

• Implementing research programmes in acoordinated manner across Europe.

• Encouraging greater mobility of researchersaround Europe.

In a 2009 communication to the EuropeanParliament and Member States, the EuropeanCommission stressed the major contributionthat the GÉANT e-Infrastructure makes torealising the vision of the European ResearchArea. GÉANT plays a key role in supporting thedeployment of new research facilities, thedevelopment of which is articulated by policygroups from the European Strategy Forum onResearch Infrastructures (ESFRI) and the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) in adialogue with Member States.

GÉANT also forms a key component of the EU’sLisbon Strategy, which aims to make Europe the

world’s most dynamic and competitiveknowledge economy by promoting innovation.GÉANT is furthering the contribution ofinformation and communication technologies(ICT) to the Lisbon goals by developing e-Infrastructures that help build new researchenvironments, driving productivity and thequality of the science performed.

This infrastructure links researchers in alldomains with huge bandwidth, removinggeographical constraints and facilitatingdistributed collaboration, thus creatingsynergies between dispersed research groupsand enhancing their potential to address morecomplex challenges.

GÉANT is also helping to deliver the EU’s i2010:European Information Society 2010 initiative,which forms part of the Lisbon Strategy andaims to: • Achieve a single European information area.• Boost innovation and investment in ICT in

order to support growth and employment. • Create an inclusive European information

society to improve the quality of publicservices as well as quality of life.

GÉANT will continue promoting the role of e-Infrastructures in a changing and global researchenvironment.

A Test-Bed for the Future Internet

In parallel with operating the existing networkinfrastructure, GÉANT conducts ongoingresearch into the emerging technologies,standards and equipment that will be builtinto the infrastructure of tomorrow. GÉANTresearch teams collaborate with industry,standards bodies and networks around theworld to identify optimum technologicalsolutions. Analysis of emerging futurenetworking technologies and research intonew services are essential to bring innovationto the core network infrastructure and totechnological solutions for network control,management and service provisioning acrossthe GÉANT Service Area.

As the most advanced research and educationnetwork in the world, GÉANT is at theforefront of new information andcommunication technologies. Essentially itacts as a test-bed for new technologies,providing an opportunity for proof of conceptbefore commercial adoption. The latest GÉANTproject is primarily focused on thedevelopment and introduction of services forits user base that will have widespreadbenefits and ultimately provide the blueprintfor future commercial applications.

Consequently GÉANT is a key part of the EC’sFuture Internet initiative. Building on conceptssuch as grid and cloud computing, the FutureInternet initiative is researching the creationof an “Internet of Services”, where new,interoperable services can be quicklydeveloped and deployed on top of the existinghigh-speed infrastructure.

GÉANT’s contribution to this research isconcentrated in three key areas.

InteroperabilityGiven that research infrastructures encompassmultiple networks at campus, national andinternational level, each with potentiallydifferent architectures, policies andtechnologies - ensuring they can worktogether is vital. In cooperation with theNRENs, GÉANT aims to provide a FederatedNetwork Architecture that harmonises thismulti-domain environment to ensure usersreceive seamless, end-to-end provision ofservices, wherever they are located.

VirtualisationThere is a trend towards the use ofvirtualisation technology to make it easier forusers to create their own networks on demandto support collaboration. GÉANT has been builtto deliver this capability from the outset,

enabling virtual “private” network paths withdedicated bandwidth to be deployed quicklyfor individual user projects. Serviceprovisioning in this way enhances theflexibility of connectivity options.

Internet of ServicesTo achieve an Internet of Services, it must beeasy and secure to develop, deploy and accessnew services. The idea of composable networkservices, that is, being able to quickly createand install new services on the network fromexisting components, relies on the creation ofa common software framework that servicescan plug into.

The power of these developments from GÉANTin pursuit of the future Internet promises thatfor both researchers and, eventually, thegeneral public, it will provide the high-capacity, service-based framework needed tounderpin users’ requirements well into thefuture.

GÉANT is fundamental to realising the vision of theEuropean Research Area: a border-free zone for research

created by the networking of institutions and theincreased mobility of researchers around Europe

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Contributing to the Vision of the European Research Area

Lighting Dark Fibre for Greater Network Performance

A Collaborative Network for theResearch and Education Community

Never has international collaboration been moreimportant in all disciplines, meaning thatresearchers now need to collect, share andanalyse information in real time in areas asdisparate as physics and e-learning, health andearth observation. The scale and bandwidthneeds of this traffic mean it can only be handledby a network designed specifically for thispurpose and not by commercial operators.

Research and education networks are thereforeessential for international collaboration,enabling the creation of virtual teams that bringthe best minds together, irrespective of location.Designed specifically to meet the needs of theresearch and education community, GÉANTprovides a seamless, high-capacity network withunrivalled geographic reach.

To provide the capacity and services that usersneed and expect, European research networkingitself requires a truly collaborative approach.Local campus networks link to national researchnetworks that span specific countries and thesethen interconnect via the GÉANT backbone. Thisseamless connectivity is only possible throughcollaboration with the NRENs.

Innovative Topology for Flexibility,Reliability and Speed

GÉANT was the first production network deployedon an international scale that uses an innovativecombination of transmission and switchingmethods – hybrid technology that opens up newservice possibilities. Delivering world-leading levelsof performance, reliability and innovation, thenetwork design for GÉANT has focused onmaximising operational and service flexibility.

Offering data-transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps, thenetwork infrastructure extends across 50,000 km,including 12,000 km of lit fibre.

GÉANT is made up of a general purpose researchInternet carrying multiple users’ traffic, and virtual“private” network paths dedicated to carrying thetraffic of individual projects that transmit hugequantities of data. In this way, GÉANT and theNRENs are able to meet the needs of differenttypes of user with the most appropriate technologyand level of service.

Expanding Network Capacity

GÉANT will continue to evolve in order to meetthe changing needs of the research andeducation community. Initiatives are underwaythat aim to increase the capacity of the corenetwork by a factor of ten in the next threeyears, with speeds of up to 100 Gbps beingplanned to ensure speed and availability forusers.

GÉANT was the first production network deployed on aninternational scale that uses an innovative combination of

transmission and switching methods to open up new service possibilities.

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Connecting ResearchersAcross the Globe

Research today is a global activity andincreasingly important for seeking solutions tomany of the issues currently facing the world.European researchers in fields such as healthand drug discovery, seismology and astronomy,crop research and weather forecasting need tobe able to work more closely than ever beforewith their global counterparts.

The GÉANT network has high-speed links tonetworks in other world regions, including:

• Asia-Pacific – 18 countries across theregion through the TEIN3 network.

• Caucasus – the Black Sea Initiative (BSI)links the countries of the south Caucasus toEurope through a connection to GÉANT.

• Central Asia – the CAREN network willprovide connectivity to the central Asiancountries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

• China – reaches an estimated 15 millionresearchers through the ORIENT link.

• Latin America – 13 Latin Americancountries in the RedCLARA network.

• North America – links to Internet2, ESnetand NLR (US) and CANARIE (Canada).

• Southern and Eastern Africa – a link to theUbuntuNet Alliance provides connectivity tothe countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

• Southern Mediterranean – providing agateway to North Africa and the MiddleEast, the EUMEDCONNECT2 network reaches2 million users.

Work is also underway to connect to theCaribbean.

GÉANT’s extensive geographical reach, highbandwidth, reliability and data-transfer speedsenable European researchers to share hugequantities of data and collaborate effectivelywith their peers throughout the world,regardless of distance or location.

With extensive links to research networks throughout theworld, GÉANT is bringing multi-disciplinary user

communities together for the benefit of all.

Enabling Global Virtual Research Communities

GÉANT provides connectivity to other world regions, placing Europe at the heart of global research networking.

Particle Physics at the LHC –underpinning gridcomputing and assuring performanceThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is said to be thelargest scientific endeavour in history. Bycolliding particles at extremely high energies, theLHC’s experiments will generate some 15Petabytes (15 million Gigabytes) of dataannually. This huge amount of data is distributedto 11 primary processing centres around theworld, from where it is accessed and analysed bythousands of scientists, engineers and supportstaff. GÉANT and the NREN partners havedeployed a vast private network with sufficientbandwidth reserved specifically for LHCresearchers to facilitate this data distributionand analysis, and linking each processing site toCERN by a dedicated connection. To support theLHC Optical Private Network (LHCOPN), GÉANT’sperfSONAR multi-domain monitoring (MDM)service has been implemented to monitor

network status and performance across each ofthese connections.

“The LHC Optical Private Network (LHCOPN) iscore to delivering physics data to the LHCscientists worldwide. To ensure the quality of theservices, we need a rigorous active monitoringsystem that can identify real-time problems. Thecollaboration of the LHCOPN with the GÉANTproject and the NRENs as well as the partnerinstitutes has enabled DANTE to provide a robustand extensible system that now has a globalreach.” Dr David Foster, European Organisation forNuclear Research (CERN)

EXPReS Astronomy Project – cutting data-transfer times from days to secondsThe EXPReS project uses dedicated high-speedGÉANT links to connect remote radio telescopes

across Europe to a central data processor in theNetherlands. Enormous volumes of simultaneousobservation data are transmitted and thencorrelated to form very sharp, high-definitionimages of cosmic radio sources. Data waspreviously collected at each telescope onmagnetic tapes, then the tapes transported bycourier, taking several days. Now, information issent from telescopes to the central computer injust seconds, enabling astronomers to createreal-time views of the outer reaches of theuniverse.

“The EXPReS project has been transformed by ourconnection to the GÉANT network. Whilst theadvancement of telescope technology means wecan now carry out years’ worth of observations indays, the ability to then transfer that vastquantity of data between astronomers at suchhigh speed means the pace of our research has

accelerated beyond recognition, with real-timecollaboration now a reality.” Professor Ralph Spencer, Jodrell BankObservatory

Sichuan Earthquake – providing bandwidth fordisaster relief effortsFollowing the devastating 2008 earthquake inChina, GÉANT played a critical role in analysingthe disaster’s impact and aiding reconstruction.The European Commission’s Joint ResearchCentre (JRC) used GÉANT and the ORIENTEurope/China link to transfer high-resolutionsatellite images of the areas devastated by theearthquake from its Italian office directly tothose leading the relief work.

“Modern communication networks such asGÉANT and ORIENT are essential for aneffective and speedy collaboration between

the European Commission's researchers andlocal government in the wake of the Sichuanearthquake in China. In such a situation ofnatural and human disaster, we cannot affordto rely on conventional means ofcommunication, such as fax and post, butneed modern tools for carrying out a properanalysis within short deadlines. GÉANT andORIENT provide the bandwidth to transporthigh-detail images, thereby making animportant contribution to speeding up thereconstruction of infrastructure and to savinghuman lives.”Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for InformationSociety and Media

Bringing Benefits to Society

Users from a wide variety of disciplines canutilise GÉANT to facilitate collaboration and thesharing of data. Whether working to solveenvironmental issues such as predicting naturaldisasters and combating climate change, orpushing back the frontiers of knowledge in areassuch as astronomy and physics, projects rely ona high-speed network infrastructure to linkresearchers together. The way research projectsare conducted has been transformed by theexistence of the GÉANT network; some wouldnot be possible without it.

GÉANT users span the full range of disciplines,from Big Science projects such as the LargeHadron Collider through telemedicine and earthobservation to the arts and cultural projects.

The GÉANT network delivers real value and benefit to societyby enabling research communities across Europe - and the

rest of the world - to transform the way they collaborate onground-breaking research.

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Connecting User Communities to Accelerate Research

GÉANT Service Area - empoweringnational networks

The GÉANT project is focused on understanding itsusers’ requirements and offering services that meettheir specific needs. In collaboration with theNRENs, GÉANT will continue to develop user-focused, multi-domain services aimed at deliveringseamless network performance across borders anddomains, and to roll these out at national level toinstitutions, projects and researchers through theGÉANT Service Area.

GÉANT Service Portfolio - empoweringusers

The range of services currently offered, and those indevelopment for introduction during the term of theproject, are grouped into three types:

Flexible Connectivity OptionsGÉANT’s three levels of connectivity service –GÉANT IP, GÉANT Plus and GÉANT Lambda –reflect the immense flexibility that the networkhas been designed to offer, and together ensurethe appropriate service level for the differingdemands of users, be that a standard Internetconnection or an Optical Private Network (OPN)linking multiple computing centres across thecontinent for a data-intensive research project.GÉANT IP – the network’s standard connectivity

service provides robust, high-bandwidth access toand across the shared European Internet Protocol(IP) infrastructure.

GÉANT Plus – provides point-to-point connectivityacross reserved, high-speed, guaranteed-bandwidthcircuits on pre-provisioned infrastructure. Thiscombines the privacy, security and availability of aprivate network with the cost-efficiency androbustness of a shared and managed infrastructure

GÉANT Lambda – a bespoke service designed tocater for longer term, extremely data-intensivenetwork connectivity requirements. Theseconnections provide a dedicated, full 10 Gbpswavelength (or set of wavelengths) to deliver highcapacity for the most demanding of user projects.

Network Performance ServicesDelivering consistently high performance is key to asuccessful user experience. Users can benefit fromthe range of GÉANT network support toolsemployed by NRENs to assure optimumperformance for projects and institutions.Connectivity is supported by a comprehensiverange of network monitoring and managementservices. These optimise network performance byproviding 24x7 monitoring across the GÉANTService Area infrastructure, enabling fastidentification and remedy of any faults on thenetwork as well as providing powerful security to

prevent and detect malicious attacks.

Performance measuring and monitoringAnalysing performance in global research networksis complex since any single path might go throughseveral domains – campus, local and nationalnetworks as well as the GÉANT backbone. Offeringcomprehensive multi-domain monitoring (MDM)features, GÉANT’s perfSONAR MDM services allowusers to access network performance metrics andperform network monitoring actions across multipledomains, ensuring that any source of congestion oroutage on a point-to-point connection can bequickly and easily identified and addressed.

Performance enhancementThe Performance Enhancement Response Team(PERT) provides an investigation and consultingservice to academic and research users on theirnetwork performance issues. The service isachieved via eduPERT, the federated structurethat combines the PERTs from the localinstitutions, NRENs and GÉANT and fostersknowledge-sharing across the GÉANT networkcommunity. eduPERT is part of GÉANT’scommitment to helping users get the bestperformance from their connections.

Network provisioningGÉANT’s network provisioning service underdevelopment takes the concept of dedicated

Thalassaemia Research – enablingcollaboration to prevent diseaseThalassaemia and its related conditions ofinherited blood disorders affect over 300,000newborn infants worldwide every year. TheITHANET project uses the GÉANT andEUMEDCONNECT2 networks to link scientists,clinicians and patients across Europe and theMediterranean. Their collaborative research ishelping to revolutionise treatment ofthalassaemia and bringing significant benefitsto patients.

“Over the years thalassaemia researchers inMediterranean countries have developedconsiderable expertise in diagnosis and effectivetreatment, but these centres of excellenceremained isolated, unable to undertake anyreally effective cooperation. Through the GÉANTand EUMEDCONNECT2 networks, ITHANET hastransformed this picture, and promises great

strides for the future in our ability tounderstand, treat and prevent this disease.” Dr Marina Kleanthous, ITHANET ProjectCoordinator

Typhoon Forecasting – reliable, high-bandwidthnetworks for transferring life-saving dataThe potentially catastrophic impact of typhoons iswell understood by PAGASA, the PhilippineWeather Bureau. Following one of the deadliesttropical cyclones in Philippine history, PAGASAnow relies on the TEIN3 and GÉANT networks tocollaborate with Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) inGermany, to share accurate real-time flows ofmeteorological data to drive the PAGASAforecasting and life-saving early-warning systems.

“We cooperate with the DWD and have accessto the enormous power of their supercomputersto run our weather prediction models. This is anexpense we would find difficult to manage on

our own, and it is only a viable method becauseGÉANT, TEIN3 and PREGINET together providean absolutely stable and predictable networkfor transferring the data we need.” Dr Alan Pineda, PAGASA

ASTRA – resurrecting ancient musicalinstruments through distributed computingpowerASTRA is a project that uses computer-intensivemodelling techniques to reconstruct the soundand timbre of ancient musical instruments.ASTRA relies on the GÉANT andEUMEDCONNECT2 networks to link high-capacity computers across Europe and theMediterranean to enable the distributedcomputing power necessary for the modellingprocess. The model and the sounds created byASTRA can be accessed by researchers aroundthe world, delivering a powerful tool forarchaeologists, musicians and historians.

“The combination of high-capacity researchnetworks, such as GÉANT and EUMEDCONNECT2,with grid computing provides the computingpower we need to create a window into history.” Professor De Mattia, Artistic Coordinator of theASTRA project

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Innovative Services to Enhance the User Experience

GÉANT - connect • communicate • collaborate

capacity via point-to-point connections onestep further. It will provide bandwidth-on-demand to users with exacting requirements,enabling them to reserve the bandwidth theyneed, as and when they need it. The AutoBAHNservice will calculate a route across the multi-domain environment for the required capacity atthe required time, and balance the demandingusers’ requirements with those of traditionalusers so that each receives the agreed level ofservice.

SecurityGÉANT takes a proactive approach to security tomaintain the integrity of the networkinfrastructure, implementing advanced defencesthat offer sophisticated management of networkincidents. Providing strategies for incidentprevention, detection and handling, the GÉANTsecurity systems will allow users to keepnetwork domains secure by monitoring trafficand routing information.

End-User ApplicationsTo achieve the vision of a truly open EuropeanResearch Area (ERA), individual researchers andacademics need to be able to log on to theirinstitution network wherever they are workingand access their resources. To these end users,the network infrastructure should appear to beone seamless resource in which the many

interconnected networks are invisible but whereaccess to confidential user-project data remainscontrolled.

In order to make this possible, GÉANT is building aset of interoperable systems that allow “roamingaccess” by verifying users’ identities and rightsand granting access to resources as appropriate.The systems are implemented at campus level, foruse by the institution’s students and researchers.

eduGAINThe eduGAIN service under development aims toestablish a confederation of identity providers,thereby enabling member organisations associatedwith different federations to seamlessly andsecurely exchange information as though they

were part of the same national identity provider. eduroam® - “Open your laptop and be online” eduroam is a global service that provides secure,consistent network access to the individual user,with authentication handled by the homeinstitution and authorisation by the visitedinstitution. In this way, eduroam allows academicsand researchers from eduroam-compliantinstitutions to go to any other participatinginstitution and access the network withoutreconfiguring their laptop or requesting newpasswords.

eduroam® is a registered trademark of TERENA on behalf of itsmember organisations.

DANTE is a non-profit organisation, co-fundedby the European Commission and working inpartnership with European National Researchand Education Networks to plan, build andoperate advanced networks for research andeducation. Established in 1993, DANTE has beenfundamental to the success of pan-Europeanresearch and education networking. DANTE has built and operates GÉANT, whichprovides the data communicationsinfrastructure essential to the success of manyresearch projects in Europe.

DANTE is involved in worldwide initiatives tointerconnect countries in other regions to oneanother and to GÉANT. DANTE currentlymanages initiatives focused on theMediterranean, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia andChina regions through the EUMEDCONNECT2,TEIN3, CAREN and ORIENT projects respectively.

Further information about DANTE and theactivities in which it is involved is availablefrom www.dante.net.

TERENA is the Trans-European Research andEducation Networking Association, in whichEurope's research networking organisations,research institutes, equipment vendors andtelecommunications operators meet, exchangeinformation and experience, and collaborate ona range of activities. TERENA's membershipincludes major international researchorganisations, several companies and nationalresearch and education networkingorganisations from many countries. TERENAprojects, task forces and events are open to anyorganisation or individual who offersappropriate expertise, manpower or otherresources.

Further information about TERENA and itsactivities is available from www.terena.org.

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The combination of the GÉANT Service Area and the GÉANTService Portfolio results in a growing range of world-leading

services that can be rolled out locally across the shared networkinfrastructure. This places the power of delivery with the

national networks, and the power of collaboration with endusers through solutions tailored to their individual needs.

For the latest available services, visit www.geant.net. Please note the availability and naming of services mayvary by NREN. For service availability within your country, please contact your NREN.

www.geant.netwww.dante.net

This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility ofDANTE and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.

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