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 […]

NDN2024 Programme Planning

The next NORDUnet Conference is scheduled for 10-12 September 2024 in Bergen, Norway, and the Programme Committee has started preparing the programme. Numerous ideas and suggestions and views have been actively shared by the members during their first formal meeting at the Radisson Blu Bergen, being the actual venue of the conference. According to the […]

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 […]

”Sunetdagarna” coming up

Swedish NREN Sunet invite everybody from their connected institutions and other interested parties to join the upcoming online conference “Sunet days”. From 16-20 October you can join five days of knowledge sharing and talks about Sunet’s offerings and services, network, etc.  including views on AI, and security This edition of the Sunet days is all […]

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 […]

Polar Connect Vision 2030 Webinar – September 2023

On 7 September 2023, the Polar Connection Vision 2030 webinars delved deeper into the latest insights shaping the future of one of the four sections of the European Data Gateways, namely the North Atlantic and Arctic section. Highlights from the webinars include exploration of arguments underpinning the necessity for a resilient submarine cable system in […]

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 […]