News & Events

In her presentation at the TNC2016 Advanced Video Application session Ingrid Melve from Norwegian UNINETT revealed some interesting statistics. Statistics from UNINETTs eCampus Norway program show that Norwegian students study around the clock, day and night, seven days a week. The only significant exception is Sunday morning. Whether they are going to church or just staying in bed, Ingrid Melve couldn’t tell us. But the numbers clearly prove, that there is a huge demand for video for academic learning.

The CrypTech project, hosted by NORDUnet, is developing an open source hardware cryptographic engine.  

Leif Johansson, member of the CTO team of Swedish Sunet, presented the project at TNC2016, and he had news for his listeners. Not only has CrypTech now raised 1 mio. $ in funding from various sources. More importantly, a first version of the CrypTech Hardware Security Module is ready for release. A select crowd will be able to purchase a small batch of the HSM for testing by early fall. Leif Johansson even presented a price tag, approx. 800 dollars.

Right at the centre of the TNC16 exhibition area you will find the Nordic NRENs at booth no. 6. It’s the informal meeting point of  both the Nordic conference participants and everybody else interested in knowing more about our projects. Cross-border collaboration is an essential ingredient in most of these projects, enabling local NRENs to achieve much more than they would to on their own.

Go meet the Northerners from Swedish Sunet, Finnish CSC, Icelandic RHnet, Norwegian Uninett and Danish DeiC, together with Nordic e-infrastructure provider NORDUnet.

- Improved connectivity for research and education north of the Arctic Circle

A new 10-gigabit cross-border connection from Finnish Sodankylä northwards to the Norwegian Finnmark will be taken into service later this year. The new connection provides research facilities and universities in the northernmost parts of Norway and Finland with much needed improvements in connectivity.