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, […]
Sunet Days in Kristianstad
Twice a year, Swedish Sunet meets with its customers and partners at the Sunet Days. This time the venue is Högskolan Kristianstad in the southernmost part of Sweden. From the 11th to 14th of April representatives from organisations connected to Sunet meet and discuss current topics. Usually the Sunet Days attract between 200 and 250 […]
Discover the In The Field blog
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 blogposts are related to Scandinavia: For example WRAM, the wireless remote animal monitoring project at Umeå University, the Heatmap Europe project at Aalborg University, researchers from […]
DeIC Tender for optical transmission equipment re-opened
DeIC has re-issued a request for tender for optical transmission equipment. The request was originally issued in December, but too few vendors submitted requests to participate. Therefore, the process was stopped. It has now been restarted. DeIC expects to spend between DKK 18 million and 30 million on optical transmission equipment for Forskningsnettet, the Danish […]
Registration for NORDUnet Conference 2016 is open
Registration for the 29th NORDUnet Conference is open. The Conference will be held at the Marina Congress Center in Helsinki, Finland on 20-22 September. In line with previous years you will meet a number of interesting plenary speakers, and you will be able to choose between a number of different sesseions running in parallel tracks […]
Building a new Swedish network
NORDUnet and Swedish Sunet are building a new network for the Swedish research and education community. NORDUnet network architect Fredrik “Hugge” Korsbäck’s blog offers in-depth technical information. When operational October 2016 the new Sunet network will be an all coherent optical network, and one of the most advanced networks in the world. Some of the […]
