Familiarize yourself with the emerging NRENs

Through the Emerging NREN Fellowship programme we’ve succeeded in attracting delegates from 10 emerging NRENs. They will travel to Helsinki from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Khyrgyz Republic, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines and Zambia. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the emerging NRENs attending NORDUnet 2016, you can read about them here: https://events.nordu.net/display/NDN2016/Knowledge+Exchange  

Ten knowledge exchange Fellows appointed

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NORDUnet is proud to announce the designation of ten knowledge exchange fellows for the upcoming NORDUnet 2016 conference. They will travel to Helsinki from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Khyrgyz Republic, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines and Zambia. – We are very grateful to our partners Eduix and Ciena who have made this possible by supporting […]

Danish NREN DeIC Selects New DWDM Platform

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Deic, the Danish NREN, has selcted Ericsson and ECI Telecom as providers for a new, national optical network footprint for research and education. The new DWDM optical network platform, based on the ECI Apollo 9600 series, allow both 100Gbps coherent and 10Gbps optical transmission, with a total of 88 channels on a single fibre. The new […]

Towards tailor-made virtual networks

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Towards tailor-made virtual networks – The NORDUnet Global Virtualization Service offers experimental testbeds to researchers Reducing the time it takes to set up an experimental network from months to minutes, and allowing Wide Area Network testing, the NORDUnet Global Virtualization Service, GVS, is a great forward stride in network virtualisation. Researchers are now invited to […]

DI4R conference early bird ending

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There is still a chance to register for the Digital Infrastructures for Science (DI4R) conference, held in Krakow on 28-30 September 2016, at the early bird fee. Go to the conference page, or directly to registration.

First GÉANT Cloud Workshop

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The 1st GÉANT Cloud Workshop will be held in Rome on 12-13 October, hosted by Italian NREN GARR.  The workshop is held in conneciton with a meeting of the GÉANT SIG-MSP special interest group.  The workshop will focus especially on service delivery and management, and on the evolving GÈANT cloud sevices catalogue. You can read […]

The step-by-step approach

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– Nordic NRENs can be a showcase on how to strengthen cross-border collaboration A good, robust foundation opens up a wide range of opportunities for collaborating across borders, says Ingrid Melve, director of the eCampus programme at Norwegian Uninett. The current intense Nordic NREN collaboration has developed step-by-step. – Our starting point was working together […]

EISCAT 3D – the biggest Nordic capacity challenge yet

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Situated in the northernmost parts of Scandinavia, the new EISCAT 3D radar will, when fully operational, be the single most powerful data source in the whole of Scandinavia. Producing 300 Gb/s of atmospheric data to be collected at high-performance computing centres, and an annual 10 petabytes to be stored and distributed to physicists around the […]

In The Field – new Nordic blog posts

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Discover In The Field – the international blog telling fascinating stories from around the world about people and projects connected by high-capacity research and education networks. A substantial number of blog posts are related to Scandinavia:  Among the most recent ones you can find a story about Vlasiator, the most accurate space weather simulator in the […]

Taking trust to the next level

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On the 2nd of June the NORDUnet CERT team successfully completed the Trusted Introducer certification, making it one out of only 17 European security teams achieving the highest level of maturity in Security Incident Management. The Trusted Introducer certification shows evidence of team maturity, utilizing adequate tools and training. The Certification is based on the […]