Polar Connect presented at DeiC 2023 conference
Today at the DeiC 2023 conference Ieva Muraškienė of NORDUnet will give a talk on the Polar Connect initiative of the Nordic NRENs. In her presentation she will dive into some of the results from the Northern EU Gateways project co-funded by the EC. Key areas will include the work to develop an overarching vision […]
Ubuntunet Connect 2023
This week, the Eastern and South African NREN collaboration Ubuntunet Alliance will meet at the Ubuntunet Connect 2023 conference, hosted by RENU in Kampala, Uganda. As usual, the conference will be lively, with many interesting presentations in the program. NORDUnet’s Erik Kikkenborg will participate and jointly with Omo Oaiya of WACREN deliver a presentation that […]
Polar Connect at Submarine Networks World 2023
This week Jonny Lundin of NORDUnet presented the Polar Connect vision to a global audience at the Submarine Networks World conference in Singapore. In his talk on Arctic connectivity, Creating Reducancies in the Global Cable Systems, Jonny highlighted the current challenges in Europe – Asia connectivity. He stressed the need to increase both capacity and […]
APAN56
The 56th APAN conference – the meeting place of the Asia-Pacific NRENs and their global partners – takes place on 21-25 August 2023 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The conference program features a range of talks from community members, stakeholders, and industry professionals on advanced national and intercontinental networks, NREN evolution, NREN services, security, digital indentity […]
It’s time for lightning talks for the NORDUnet Community Workshop
NORDUnet would like to invite proposals for lightning talks for the NORDUnet Community Workshop (NCW23). The community workshop will take place in Copenhagen, 12-14 September 2023. We have two lightning talk sessions in the community workshop program this year – Tuesday 12 September in the morning and Thursday 14 September in the afternoon. Both are […]
Cinia and NORDUnet collaboration on Arctic Connectivity
Inter-continental connectivity between Europe and Asia is set to be significantly strengthened through two complementing submarine cable systems – Far North Fiber and Polar Connect. The two submarine cable systems currently in development will greatly increase diversity and resilience for connectivity between Europe and Asia, while also increasing capacity and reducing latency. For today’s digital […]
Thank you, Tirana!
TNC23 is done, the near 800 participants are back home, but the memories live on. As always, TNC was a great experience for the NORDUnet and Nordic NREN team. We would like to thanks everyone who came to visit us at the Nordic booth, saw presentations by Nordic speakers, and joined discussions. It was good […]
Strong momentum for Polar connectivity
NORDUnet CEO Valter Nordh has been invited to present the two Arctic sub-sea Europe-Asia cable projects under preparation to key audiences in Europe and USA. Under the headline Polar Connect, NORDUnet and the Nordic NRENs aim to exploit recent progress in cable laying technology which has opened the field for connections through the Arctic Ocean. […]
Springtime for Sunet
The brand “Sunetdagarna” was well-known pre-COVID in the Nordic research and education community as a buffet of seminars organized by Swedish NREN Sunet each spring. Following a few years online, the event is back in its original physical format. In line with tradition the main target group is employees of the institutions connected to Sunet […]
High-speed connectivity for Iceland’s R&E
A new subsea circuit to Ireland and upgrade of existing connections safeguard digital sovereignty of Icelandic research and education collaborations. Significantly more detailed weather forecasts for Iceland will be one of the first everyday products of a new fiber connection established by Iceland’s national research and education network RHnet, NORDUnet, and partners. Through the lease […]
