AARC draft Blueprint Architecture
The AARC project has released a draft Blueprint Architecture for comments. This draft has been created by the projects architecture work package during the first year of the project. The goal of this architecture is to help e-infrastructure operators and technical architects and implementers in the various research communities to enable secure, scalable, and interoperable federated access to […]
Lectures everywhere anytime – except Sunday morning
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 […]
Alien Wavelength – pros and cons
Per Nihlén CTO of Swedish Sunet contributed to a lively discussion on the Tuesday TNC2016 session “Alien Wavelengths – from field trials to commercial services”. Presenting the new Sunet network, developed in cooperation with NORDUnet, he described in detail how the network is using Alien Wave technology. After his presentation he took part in a […]
Cryptech news revealed at TNC2016
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 […]
Erik-Jan Bos taking the stage at TNC16
Programme Committee chair of TNC2016, NORDUnet Strategy & Policy Officer, Erik-Jan Bos took the stage during the Monday opening plenary of the conference to welcome the 600+ participants. In his welcome he explained this year’s conference theme, “Building the Internet of People” being chosen because it is the human network that makes the technology all […]
Meet the Northerners at TNC16
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 […]
Supporting a knowledge exchange participant
The upcoming NORDUnet Conference in Helsinki from 20-22 September offers a unique way to support the participation of a staff member from an NREN that would normally to have the funding for such activity. Finnish software company Eduix has taken the lead and has asked to become a so-called ”emerging NREN sponsor”. Eduix CEO Rami […]
Stronger fibre for arctics
– 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. […]
New Zoom service
NORDUnet has launched a proof of concept (POC) for a new web meeting service based on Zoom Video Conferencing Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-defined video conference room solution into one platform. Zoom offers video, audio, and screen-sharing experience across Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Zoom Rooms, […]
New NORDUnet Data Centre infrastructure
NORDUnet is implementing its new virtual service structure, enhancing performance and efficiency, and simultaneously achieving an 81% decrease of overall power consumption. It is faster, slimmer, more efficient, and saving 1 million Danish kroner yearly on NORDUnet’s power bill. So, it’s hard to find something not to like about the new NORDUnet Data Center infrastructure, […]
