Dorte Olesen turns 70
Dorte Olesen was director of UNI-C, the Danish national cerntre for IT for research and education from 1989 to 2011. During her tenure, she was instrumental in the creation of the Danish NREN “Forskningsnettet” (later DeIC), and played a key role in the shaping of the Danish R&E e-infrastructure landscape, the creation of national computing […]
GÉANT Association Board Election
On November 24, the 12th General Assembly of the GÉANT Association elected new members. The Terms of three members (Dorte Olesen, Raimundas Tuminauskas, and Marko Bonač) had expired. In addition, Erik Huized had stepped down from the board to take on the role as interim CEO of the GÉANT Association. The general assembly elected Federico Ruggieri (GARR) […]
GÉANT Association post CEO position
The GÉANT Association is seeking a CEO! The new CEO of GÉANT will be responsible for strategic leadership of a major, pan-European e-Infrastructure, in close interaction with the European R&E networking community. It is considered crucial that the new CEO has prior familiarity with the European NREN environment. The GÉANT CEO position is available on […]
1st GÉANT Crisis Management Workshop
GÉANT is hosting a crisis management workshop for the European NRENs and the European R6E networking community – CLAW. The workshop takes place in Malaga, Spain, on 20-21 November 2017. The workshop will feature training in crisis management for R&E networking staff, and help NRENs develop crisis management plans and strategies. To learn more and […]
NORDUnet at Asi@Connect Bangladesh Launch Event
On 30 October 2017, the “Asi@Connect Bangladesh Launch Event” takes place at the Samson H. Chowdhury Center in Dhaka, Bangladesh. NORDUnet congratulates BdREN, the Bangladesh NREN, with this milestone and is proud to participate in this event. This event is co-located with the “International Seminar on Strategies for Sustainability of R&E Network” that takes place […]
Alberto Pérez Gómez named Director of RedIRIS
Alberto Pérez Gómez has been appointed new director of the Spanish research and education network RedIRIS. Dr. Alberto Pérez has been Deputy Director of RedIRIS since 2004, dealing with issues of economic management, personnel, portfolio of services, and projects, including his participation in the deployment of RedIRIS-NOVA, and representation of RedIRIS in international forums such as European R&E […]
NORDUnet across the globe
Traffic from NORDUnet criss-crosses the world. Check this snapshot from the 28th of September at 15:52 pm and see the actual traffic. The red dots indicate heavy traffic. Light traffic comes as yellow and grey dots. Please note that the map is based on accurate guesses and geoIP.
ASREN connects Jordan to global R&E networks
The Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN), has recently connected the Jordanian University Network (JUNet) to the ASREN pop in Amman, Jordan, and onwards to London, providing JUNet connectivity to GÉANT and the global R&E netwoks. The support for JUNet follows an upgrade of the ASREN Amman – London connection from 155Mbps to 1Gbps, made […]
Report from GLIF 2017
The 17th Global Lambda Grid Workshop – also known as the 2017 GLIF meeting – recently took place in Sydney, Australia, hosted by Australian NREN AARNET. The meeting brought together 70 advanced networking experts from around the globe, and debated topics covering expansion of network resources in the Pacific region, networking for major science projects […]
MYREN launches 100 Gbps R&E Network
Today Malaysian NREN MYREN is launching a 100 Gbps network. NORDUnet congratulates MYREN with this great achievement. Established in 2005, MYREN is a young NREN but is making great strides. A 100 Gbps R&E network is a major step forward for Malaysia in general, and for the more than 800,000 researchers and students in Malaysia […]
