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Backbone Topology as at June 2011. GÉANT is operated by DANTE on behalf of Europe’s NRENs.

connect • communicate • collaborate

Transforming the way researchers collaborate

The pan-European network with global capabilities

GÉANT is the pan-European academic network that interconnects Europe’s NationalResearch and Education Networks (NRENs). Together we connect over 40 million researchers

and students across Europe, facilitating collaborative research in a diverse range ofdisciplines, including high-energy physics, radio astronomy, bio-medicine, climate change,

earth observation and arts & culture.

GÉANT is part-funded by, and works in close cooperation with the European Commission(EC), with GÉANT a fundamental part of the European Research Area.

What is GÉANT?

Absolutely not! In addition to its pan-European reach, GÉANT has extensive links tonetworks in other world regions including North America (via Internet2, ESnet, NLR, NISNand CANARIE), Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East, South Africa and Kenya,

the South Caucasus, Central Asia and the Asia-Pacific Region – reaching over 50 NRENs anda further 45 million users outside of Europe, putting GÉANT at the heart of global researchnetworking. Work is also on-going to connect to the Caribbean and to improve links to and

within Southern and Eastern Africa, providing researchers worldwide with a gateway toEuropean counterparts.

So, GÉANT is only for Europe?

GÉANT works with European partners to enable distributed computing: Clouds, Grids and High-Performance Computing (HPC). Through the development and provision of advanced networking

services such as multi-domain dynamic circuit provision (GÉANT Bandwidth on Demand) andmulti-domain diagnostics and monitoring (GÉANT perfSONAR MDM), GÉANT is helping to

ensure that researchers the world over experience seamless and efficient network collaboration.

Transatlantic collaboration for seamlessconnectivity

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Together with Europe’s NRENs, GÉANT connects over 8,000 institutions – 2,500 universities, 1,500 institutes of further education, and 1,600 research institutesAn additional 2,500 ‘other’ institutions including libraries, government departments, hospitals and museums are connected

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GÉANT at SC11Transatlantic Cooperation and CollaborationGÉANT and ACE – delivering high speed transatlantic infrastructureAmerica Connects to Europe (ACE) is a collaboration between Indiana University GlobalNOC,DANTE (for GÉANT) plus DFN, GARR, RENATER and JANET, Internet2 and NYSERnet, and isfunded by NSF on the US-side and the European Commission and GÉANT on the Europeanside. The remit is to expand transatlantic research network capacity for researchers andstudents across Europe and the US. The ACE transatlantic network infrastructure now has40Gbps of general IP and 20Gbps for static or dynamically provisioned point-to-pointcircuits that can be reserved by users when they need it.

You can find out more about GÉANT and ACE at Indiana University Booth #2239, 2pm on Tuesday 15th, Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th November.

GÉANT in three-way collaboration with ESnet and Internet2Through strategic and technical collaboration, DANTE (for GÉANT), ESnet and Internet2have joined forces to develop and deliver an interoperable set of network services to userson their North American and European networks. This collaboration develops and deliversan interoperable dynamically provisioned Bandwidth-on-Demand and network monitoringdiagnostic service. ESnet, Internet2 and DANTE (for GÉANT) are working to deliver flexibleoptions to data-intensive network users in Europe and the US.

GÉANT and Internet2 DemonstrationIn a joint demonstration, GÉANT and Internet2 will illustrate Layer 2 transatlantic datatraffic flow in support of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project. Data movement will beshown across transatlantic links as well as participating end sites in the US and Europe.This innovative work provides dedicated network overlays for the particle physicscommunity.

You can find out more about GÉANT and Internet2 at the Internet2 Booth #1327 and GÉANT and ESnet at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Booth # 512.

GÉANT, NTT and NICTNTT will be demonstrating the movement of a high definition television stream from Osakain Japan through, JGN-X by NICT, APAN, TEIN3 GÉANT and JANET to the BBC in London,images from London will be added and move the combined video from the BBC to SC11using Layer 2 circuits through GÉANT and Internet2, and global interoperable Bandwidth-on-Demand.

You can find out more about GÉANT and NTT/NICT at the NICT Booth # 4717 on Tuesday 15th, Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th November.

GÉANT and PSNCGÉANT, along with several other partners will be on hand to demonstrate current progresson Network Services Interface (NSI), the new protocol being developed within theOpenGridForum (OGF) standards body. NSI will ensure the seamless delivery of dynamiccircuit provisioning around the world. It will do this by enabling full interoperabilitybetween the different technologies behind operators’ services. PSNC will be demonstratingGÉANT’s AutoBAHN provisioning tool using NSI, along with a host of other R&E networksdemonstrating their preferred provisioning tools and technologies. Partner participantsinclude: KDDI (G-Lambda-K) | AIST (G-Lambda-A) | JGN-X (G-Lambda-K) | KISTI/KRLight(DynamicKL) | StartLight (OpenNSA/Argia) | ESnet (OSCARS) | NORDUNET/NorthernLight(OpenNSA) | SURFNET/Netherlight (DRAC) | UvA (DRAC) | CESNET/CzechLight (DRAC) |PIONIER (AutoBAHN | GÉANT (AutoBAHN).

You can find out more about GÉANT, PSNC and others involved in the NSI demo at theInstitute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS-PSNC Booth #108 on the mornings of Tuesday15th, Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th November.

GÉANT staff will be available throughout SC11 so come and see us at any of the boothslisted. Or if you prefer, email anna.everitt@dante.net to arrange an appointment.

Advanced services depend on a world classnetworkAdvanced services depend on a world class network and community. The GÉANT networkis part of the GÉANT project (GN3) which includes the development and provision ofadvanced network and application services, as well as technology research, large usersupport and NREN development. GÉANT Project Partners include 32 European NRENs,DANTE and TERENA.

What sets GÉANT apart from other networks?The robustness that large research projects rely on – outstanding service availabilityand service quality. Over 1,000 Terabytes of data are transferred every day via theGÉANT IP backbone.

The flexibility that means services and infrastructure can be tailored to individual user requirements.

The capacity, combined with extreme robustness and high availability, which setsGÉANT apart. Key routes on GÉANT already run at 40 Gbps, with planned upgrades to100 Gbps scheduled for 2012 to ensure the network remains ahead of user demandfor bandwidth.

The effective and efficient operations users come to expect, as delivered by adedicated Network Operations Centre. 99% of cases are reported within 15 minutesof the outage being detected.

All the services needed for seamless networking experience: IP and dedicated circuits,testbeds and virtualised resources, authentication and roaming, monitoring andtroubleshooting, advisory and support services.