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GÉANT The Network, the Services, the Community
Dr John Chevers Services Manager DANTE
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What is GÉANT?
! Total cost ca 182 M€ over 4 years ! Approximately 51% EC funding ! 34 project partners (NRENs +
DANTE + TERENA) ! A project and a network ! Circa 500 person years over 4 years
for service development, research, and networking
! Began in April 2009
! Challenges: ! Building a distributed virtual
team ! Flexibility and efficiency
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Where is GÉANT?
GEANT members
Associate members
A ubiquitous European academic network:
34 European countries
Every EU member state
An expanding consortium with most recent members from Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro
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Why GÉANT?
GÉANT forms an important part of EC research and education strategy and is fundamental to the EU's vision of a European Research Area (ERA): a border-free zone for research
GÉANT connects together ALL EU member states and many other countries –its value is universally recognised
GÉANT connects countries to the world of research- opening opportunities to participate in international projects and access international research facilities
"The power and scope of GÉANT ensure that Europe is a central hub for research and education, bringing together the brightest minds in the world. GÉANT not only benefits Europe's competitiveness, but is also boosting collaboration between researchers on a global scale. Through GÉANT the European
Commission is committed to enable worldwide research collaboration that tackles some of the biggest challenges that society faces and to get Every European Digital."
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission for the Digital Agenda
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About GÉANT: The GÉANT Partnership
Geographic location
National communication infrastructure development
Funding model
Customer base
Service remit
Organisation size
Technical skills
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About GÉANT: Backbone Network
Data transfer speeds of up to 20 Gbps across 50,000 km of network infrastructure
25 Points of Presence, 44 routes and 18 dark fibre routes
Hybrid network
GÉANT IP: packet routed
GÉANT Plus: switched point-to-point circuits
GÉANT Lambda: dedicated wavelengths
Over 40 million users across connected NRENs
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About GÉANT: Global Connectivity
GEANT is linked to 59 research and education networks around the world with activity underway to connect to Caribbean and Sub Saharan Africa
GEANT coverage
TEIN3
Canarie, Internet2, Esnet
RedCLARA-ALICE2 EUMEDCONNECT2
Africa Connect – WACREN
Africa Connect – UbuntuNet
SARInet
BSI
SILK-Afghanistan
CAREN
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GÉANT Benefits: Facilitating International Collaboration
! Research and Education users from diverse disciplines: ! Astronomy ! Medicine ! Bioscience ! Arts ! …and many more
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About GÉANT: Services
Backbone Services Multi-Domain Services
End User Services
GÉANT
NREN CAMPUS
END USER
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About GÉANT: Network Research
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GÉANT Benefits: In the East
New interconnections ! AzRENA (Azerbeijan) ! NAS RA (Armenia) ! KazRENA (Kazakhstan) –due in early 2012 via CAREN
Upgrades ! eARENA (Russia) –new Moscow PoP, 10Gbps access and circuit capable ! ‘South-Eastern Ring’ – Budapest – Bucharest - Sofia - being upgraded to
20Gbps ! AMRES (Serbia) –10Gbps due end 2011/early 2012 ! Planned access upgrades for MARNET (Macedonia), GRNET (Greece)
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Finally….just to remind you!
! GÉANT is an essential infrastructure for research collaboration
! GÉANT provides innovative network services
! Eastern Europe is developing fast
Thank you! [email protected]
