Partners
Organization: AARNET (AU)
Since 1989, AARNet, Australia’s Academic and Research Network has provided high-performing telecommunications and an expanding range of cyber security, data and collaboration services for Australia’s research and education sector, including universities, research organisations, schools, vocational training providers and cultural institutions. AARNet serves over two million end users who access AARNet’s network and services for teaching, learning and research.
For more information, visit https://www.aarnet.edu.au/.
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Organization: APAN-JP (JP)
APAN aims at boosting up Asia-Pacific regional economy through Next Generation Internet (NGI) projects; advanced Internet technologies are being developed by the joint efforts with North America/Europe as well as of intra-regional countries.
It connects exchange points (XPs) and access points (APs) with the links of varied speeds. The XPs are located in Tokyo, Seoul and Singapore, and provide the key functions such as traffic exchange, network measurement, information service and web caching to APAN member countries. The APs are the international gateways to APAN, providing the advanced services to the domestic networks.
For more information, visit http://www.jp.apan.net/.
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Organization: BdREN (BD)
University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh, On behalf of the Ministry of Education (MoE) implemented Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN) under Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project [HEQEP] through joint financing of Bangladesh Government and World Bank. It is deployed as a high performance data Communications network providing connectivity among higher education and research institutions in both public and private sectors.
BdREN with its multi-gigabit capability aims to connect all universities, research institutions, medical colleges, libraries, laboratories, healthcare and agricultural institutions across the country and to support geographically dispersed academics, medical professionals, scientists and researchers with reliable access to high-end computing, storage and innovative applications. With a view to implementing the BdREN backbone, UGC signed an IRU contract with Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) Ltd. for using 2(two) core from its country-wide [3000km+] distributed OPGW network. Backbone network of BdREN is designed based on this optical fiber.
BdREN is also connected with other regional and trans-continental Research and Education Networks (RENs) (e.g. TEIN, GEANT, Internet2 and others). It has interlinked the faculties and students of Bangladesh to the global academic community and learning resources. It also facilitates international collaborative research and catalyzes innovation in the country.
BdREN is being operated as a Non-profit Trust organization with a board of trustees consisting of representatives from the universities/user communities, UGC, MoE and other members co-opted for their expertise and position in relevant industries.
For more information, visit https://www.bdren.net.bd/.
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Organization: CERNET (CN)
China Education and Research Network-CERNET was built in 1994. It was supported and constructed by Chinese government. Tsinghua University and other top universities are responsible for the construction and operation of the CERNET backbone. CERNET is the first national Internet backbone using TCP / IP in China. It is also an important infrastructure of educational informatization in China and an integral part of national informatization infrastructure.
After more than 20 years of development, CERNET has become a large scale academic network. CERNET connects more than 2000 organizations, with more than 20 million users, and supporting wide range of major national education and research applications.
CERNET2 is a high-performance 100G pure IPv6 architecture with more than 10 million IPv6 users. As for 2021, Future Internet Technology Infrastructure (FITI) has come into operation, FITI is now under construction and operation by 40 universities in China.
For more information, visit https://www.cernet.edu.cn/.
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Organization: DOST-ASTI (PH)
The Advanced Science and Technology Institute is an agency of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-ASTI) mandated to undertake research and development activities aimed at strengthening and modernizing Information and Communications Technology and microelectronics. The DOST – ASTI continues to dedicate itself to delivering technology solutions in support of a productive and resilient Filipino society.
DOST – ASTI focuses its resources in the following programs:
1.Information and Communications Technology R&D;
2.Microelectronics R&D;
3.Technology Transfer;
4.Space Technology.
DOST – ASTI through partnership with local and foreign offices provides an array of services from networking, DNS, electronics and products development, high-performance computing, to space technology , enabling real-time interaction, and formation of user communities.
For more information, visit https://asti.dost.gov.ph/.
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Organization: ERNET (IN)
ERNET India is the National Research and Education Network dedicated to support the needs of the research and education community within the country. It was established in 1998 as an autonomous scientific society under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. It operates ERNET network – a pan-Indian terrestrial and satellite network with 5 points of presence at premier research and academic institutions.
For more information, visit https://ernet.in/.
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Organization: University of Gottingen (DE)
Founded in 1737, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is a research university of international renown with strong focuses in research-led teaching. The University is distinguished by the rich diversity of its subject spectrum particularly in the humanities, its excellent facilities for the pursuit of scientific research, and the outstanding quality of the areas that define its profile. From 2007 to 2012 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen was rewarded funding from the Initiative of Excellence of the German Federal and State Governments with its institutional strategy for the future entitled “Göttingen.Tradition – Innovation – Autonomy”. The University was able to realize all measures of the concept. Now Göttingen University develops the successfully established measures further to continuously advance the University’s positive developments in research and teaching.
The University bears the name of its founder Georg August, King George II of Great Britain, Elector and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, (Hannover). In affinity with the spirit of the Enlightenment, Göttingen abandoned the supremacy of theology and set its faculties on an equal footing. As an academic location Göttingen was long regarded as the hub of the mathematical world – a position lost, however, in 1933 when under Nazi rule more than 50 professors and lecturers were forced to leave the University, among them several of around 45 Nobel laureates whose names are associated with the city. After the end of World War II, Göttingen University was the first in Germany to resume its teaching operations and it went on to become one the largest higher education institutions in the country.
For more information, visit https://www.uni-goettingen.de/.
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Organization: HARNET (HK)
Incorporated in 1970, the Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC) is a cooperative effort of the Computing/Information Technology Services Centres of the eight government-funded tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Being the consortium of the tertiary institutions of Hong Kong, the JUCC has a long history of inter-institutional collaboration in the development and application of IT in the higher education community, contributing to education and the development of IT in Hong Kong. JUCC’s primary objective is to coordinate, develop, provide and advise on computing and Information Technology (IT) services in teaching, learning, research and administration for its member institutions and Hong Kong’s education community at large. The JUCC today comprises eight institutional Full Members and ten Affiliate Members.
For more information, visit https://www.jucc.edu.hk/.
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Organization: ITB (ID)
ITB has active as a TEIN gateway or Trans euro information network is an initiative carried out by the European Commission (EC) with Asian countries through the cooperation umbrella of ASEM (Asean Europe Meeting). This program has been initiated since 2001 and started running in 2005 with TEIN2 Network. One of its members is ITB and ITB also started to connect computer networks between universities and research from the research community using a network in the world known as REN (Research and Education Network). NREN/REN, in principle, uses the same technology as the Internet (TCP/IP), what distinguishes the regular Internet from NREN is the IP address and ASN (Autonomous System Number) which are specific, only around 20,000 routing tables or around 20,000 connected nodes. While the Internet has more than 600,000 routing tables or more than 600,000 nodes worldwide. In 2006, DIKTI (Higher Education) Kemdiknas created an Inheret (Indonesia Higher Education Research Network) which is a network that connects universities in Indonesia which initially connected more than 32 universities as a backbone network, this is DIKTI’s effort to facilitate education and research in Indonesia. Previously, data communication between universities only used the Internet. The Inherent Network in 2007 – 2013 has connected more than 300 universities with funding from the Ministry of National Education, the Inherent network is connected to NREN through the TEIN gateway at ITB. With the TEIN gateway at ITB, universities in Indonesia are starting to connect with NREN in other countries Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) is a research network consortium in Asia Pacific that connects several riser networks (NREN) in Asia to America (Pacific) which connects Asia and America (Nort America) with a high-speed network (High Speed Network). Some members who are members of APAN such as America (Internet.edu) , Japan (NICT, KDDI, SInet) , China (Cernet) , Korea (KOREN) and almost all countries in Southeast Asia including Indonesia are represe.
For more information, visit https://www.itb.ac.id/.
Organization: KREONET (KR)
The Korea Research Environment Open Network (hereinafter, “KREONET”) built and operated by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) as a national research network has become core growth and innovation engine to enhance R&D competitiveness since KREONET initiated and provided the first national-scale Internet service and initiated the Internet era of Korea in 1988. KREONET’s mission is developing, building and operating world-class national research network infrastructure and application platform with applying state-of-art network technology and providing advanced network service and collaboration environment to R&D community and researcher of higher education, national research lab or institute, Korea research and development agency, governments, library, university hospital, research lab of industry etc. The leadership of KREONET for network technology, partnership with KREONET community, and coordination of global collaboration has pulled global R&D leadership of KREONET community. KREONET is a key cyber-infrastructure that enables science discovery and scientific/ICT innovation in the era of the 4th industrial revolution and data-intensive science.
For more information, visit https://www.kreonet.net/.
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Organization: LEARN (LK)
The Lanka Education and Research Network-LEARN is the NREN (National Research and Education Network) of Sri Lanka. LEARN interconnects educational and research institutions across the country, and provides a range of network related services to them. LEARN interconnects all of the UGC funded state universities, a number of public universities under other ministries, the University Grants Commission, the Ministry of Higher Education, and a number of national research institutions including the National Science Foundation (NSF). LEARN is an advanced network supporting IPv6 and multicast protocols and provides optical fiber links ranging from 2Gbps to 10Mbps to most campuses. LEARN’s international links connect at 20Gbps including 3Gbps via NKN (India), TEIN (Singapore) and Internet2.
For more information, visit https://www.ac.lk/.
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Organization: MYREN (MY)
Launched in March 2005, under the governance of Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) and management of Malaysian Digital Economy (MDEC), formally known as the Multimedia Development Corporation, the Malaysian Research & Education Network (MYREN) enables high speed dedicated connectivity to the education sector while expanding research capability in Malaysia. A community managed network through its 7 regional Point of Presence (PoPs) nationwide, it has linked to over 800,000 researchers, academicians and students in Malaysia enabling closer collaboration to underpin critical applications, education and research activities across the country. MYREN currently connects all public universities, private universities, all polytechnics and college communities, and a small number of hospitals and private research institutes. MYREN connects to the global research network community via the Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN4).
For more information, visit http://www.my.apan.net/.
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Organization: NREN (NP)
Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN) is a non-profit organization founded in 2007, registered under the Nepalese Government and affiliated with Social Welfare Council. Nepal is now home to a dozen research institutions, ten universities, more than thirteen hundred colleges and more than two dozen teaching hospitals across the country. NREN operates as a national collective of education, research, and government institutions to offer a high-performance network at a low cost. . It is a member-based institution working to build a national research network, and improve research outcomes via a connection to the global research and education network. NREN connects to the global research infrastructure via NKN in India.
For more information, visit https://www.nren.net.np/.
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Organization: PERN (PK)
The Pakistan Education & Research Network (PERN) is a nationwide network connecting premier education and research institutes; and providing high-speed R&E, intranet and internet bandwidth across the country and to international networks. The network is providing valuable services, like high-speed internet, audio/video conferencing, access to digital library resources, cloud services, eduroam & blanket coverage of Wi-Fi on campus. The PERN is currently upgrading to its backbone network to provide 40Gbps of connectivity to 50 cities across the country and territorial network partners. This powerful digital infrastructure connects Pakistan to national and global data, tools, colleagues, and classrooms that fuel the engine of innovation in today’s digital economy. More than 800,000 researchers at nearly 300 Pakistani universities, colleges, research institutes, hospitals, and government laboratories are now able to access PERN.
For more information, visit http://www.pern.edu.pk/.
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Organization: REANNZ (NZ)
Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ) is New Zealand’s Crown-owned National Research and Education Network. REANNZ operates and supports a specialist high-performance digital network that is engineered to meet the unique demands of scientists, researchers, innovators and educators. With access to large data transfer capabilities and network tools that encourage multi-institutional collaboration, New Zealand has access to the world’s unique science facilities and global collaboration opportunities.
For more information, visit https://www.reannz.co.nz/.
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Organization: RedCLARA (Latin America)
RedCLARA is responsible for the implementation and management of the network infrastructure that interconnects the Latin American National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and, through them, a large number of universities and research centers. Thus, scientific and academic communities and many projects lacking adequate infrastructure to support its initiatives today advance and collaborate with each other, contributing to the development of science, education, research and innovation in Latin America.
For more information, visit https://www.redclara.net/.
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Organization: RNP (BR)
The National Education and Research Network (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa – RNP) is the Brazilian infrastructure of advanced network for collaboration and communication in the fields of teaching and research. It connects more than 250 Brazilian institutions among them and with foreign institutes, making it possible for people and resources to interact through advanced applications. Besides connecting all federal institutions of higher education and research, this infrastructure, also called Ipê network, provides a testbed for the experimental development of new applications and network services for the benefit of its users.
For more information, visit https://www.rnp.br/.
Organization: SingAREN (SG)
The Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN) is Singapore’s national research and education network (REN). SingAREN serves Singapore’s Research and Education community through facilitating efficient exchanges of local traffic and providing international connectivity through peering arrangements with overseas RENs. Our members consist of the Institutions of Higher Learning, Government and network industry organisations. SingAREN is a non-profit society whose key objectives are to 1) advocate for the use of advanced network applications and technologies 2) represent the research community in Singapore and 3). Facilitate cost-competitive adoption of advanced Internet technologies for Singapore RENs. They have benefited from SingAREN’s resilient international networks. SingAREN maintains close working relationships with the Next Generation Internet community, such as APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Network), Internet2 and TEIN (Trans-Eurasia Information Network).
For more information, visit https://www.singaren.net.sg/.
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Organization: University of Surrey (GB)
The University of Surrey is a public research university located in Guildford, England, and was initially established in 1891, known at that time as Battersea College of Technology. Currently the University is hosting over 17,000 students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. University of Surrey has a number of world-leading research areas including telecommunications, satellite technologies, electrical and electronic engineering, as well as international tourism and hospitality studies. The Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), home of UK’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), is one of the largest research centers on information and communication technologies in Europe, and the research subject of telecommunications undertaken by ICS has been constantly ranked top 50 internationally according to ARWU (http://www.shanghairanking.com/). The key research areas covered by ICS include mobile communications including 5G and beyond, future network technologies and management, as well as satellite communications.
For more information, visit https://www.surrey.ac.uk/.
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Organization: ThaiREN (TH)
The Thailand Research Education Network Association was established in 2007 to coordinate among researchers and users of research and education networks, as well as promote/support research projects and activities.
For more information, visit http://www.thairen.net.th/.
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Organization: TransPAC (US)
RedCLARA is responsible for the implementation and management of the network infrastructure that interconnects the Latin American National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and, through them, a large number of universities and research centers. Thus, scientific and academic communities and many projects lacking adequate infrastructure to support its initiatives today advance and collaborate with each other, contributing to the development of science, education, research and innovation in Latin America.
For more information, visit https://www.redclara.net/.
Organization: ErdemNet (MN)
ERDEMNET Mongolian National Research and Education Network (AS10076) is an 25 year old university network that is peering with 5 other networks and has 4 upstream carriers..
For more information, visit https://erdemnet.mn/.
Organization: KAUST (KSA)
KAUST aspires to be a destination for scientific and technological education and research. By inspiring discoveries to address global challenges, we strive to serve as a beacon of knowledge that bridges people and cultures for the betterment of humanity.
For more information, visit https://www.kaust.edu.sa/.
Organization: SANReN (ZAF)
The South African National Research Network (SANReN) is a high-speed network dedicated to science, research, education and innovation traffic and has been rolled-out in a phased manner.
For more information, visit https://www.sanren.ac.za/.