Zoom Virtual Meeting Service for R&E
NORDUnet has launched a new, easy-to-use high-definition virtual meeting service based on Zoom, designed to meet the needs of today’s mobile researchers, students, and educators. The NORDUnet Zoom partnership provides licensing with educational discounts, tied to the use of NORDUnet provided infrastructure to support the Zoom cloud service. By using server infrastructure hosted on-premise by […]
Consolidating e-infrastructures
Optimizing end-to-end transmission of research data will be one of the great future challenges for research & education networks. This was one of the key messages CEO René Buch presented at the recent DeiC conference in Kolding, Denmark. Also, he shared predictions of data transfer growth rates for the coming 10 to 15 years, to […]
South Core upgraded to 100 G
The Southern part of the NORDUnet network, going to Geneva, has seen a massive upgrade. Connectivity to CERN is now up from 20G to 100G. NORDUnet is collaborating with its long time partners PSNC in Poland and SURFnet in the Netherlands to create a ring from Hamburg via Frankfurt to Geneva, and from Geneva via […]
GNA – Globally Connecting Science, Research & Education
NORDUnet and Nordic R&E Networks (UNINETT, SUNET, Funet, DeIC, and RHnet), participate in the Global Network Architecture (GNA) initiative. GNA is defining a reference architecture and creating a roadmap for both national and regional research & education networks to more seamlessly support research on an end-to-end basis. Ultimately, this effort will establish a more capable, predictable […]
LHCONE / LHCOPN meeting in Japan
The agenda for the upcoming LHCONE and LHCOPN coordination technical meeting has been annouced. The LHCONE & LHCOPN meetings – organized by CERN – bring together engineerings from network providers (NREN’s), campuses, and scientific experients to discuss the networking needs of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). As the LHC is one of the largest scienctific […]
InAcademia 2.0 released
The GÉANT project (GN4-2) has released version 2.0 of the InAcademia service. The InAcademia service is currently in pilot. The service offer websites and internet services a simple way to determine if a visitor belong to an Academic institution (student, staff, faculty). Based on this information, websites may nesure that services are only offered to […]
Lightning Talks at NTW2017
Amidst a fully booked programme at the upcoming NTW2017 that takes place from 12-14 September at Radisson Park Inn, Kastrup there is still room for more Lightning Talks. Feel free to send your proposal to Susanne Michelsen as soon as possible. Submission deadline for proposals is 7 September 2017. Lightning talks are short (<10 […]
Registration Opens for 2017 Eastern Partnership E-Infrastructure Conference
Registration has opened for the 2nd Eastern Partnership E-infrastructure Conference (EaPEC 2017), organized by the Eastern Partnership Connect (EaPConnect) project. The conference will be held in Minsk, Belarus, on 27-28 September, and will be hosted by BASNET, the Belarus NREN. The conference brings together researchers, network and HPC experts, educators, and users intested in e-Infrastructure in the easternmost part […]
NORDUnet Technical Workshop (NTW) – Early bird about to expire
NORDUnet Technical Workshop 2017 is approaching rapidly and the favourable early-bird registration fee is about to expire. Up untill, and including, Monday August 14th you can register for a mere EUR 125. You can go directly to the registration page and pick the specific workshops that you would like to join. You can choose from […]
Luis Eliécer Cadenas named Executive Director of RedCLARA
Luis Eliécer Cadenas has been named new Executive Director of RedCLARA, starting August 1st 2017. Cadenas has been involved in networking for more than 30 years, and has background as co-founder, president, and member of the Board of Directors of Venezuela NREN REACCIUN. Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (RedCLARA) is the pan-South America R&E nework, […]
