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10 January | 2013DANTE awards contract to OPNETNew investment means even better networking support to customers.
08 February | 2013First-ever around-the-world network backup agreement signedVital research collaborations will be safeguarded through the first, major agreement among partners running the two main high-speed research and education Internet routes across Asia, Europe and North America.
06 March | 2013GÉANT and TERENA release the final ASPIRE foresight study‘A Study on the Prospects of the Internet for Research and Education 2014-2020‘, the final report of the ASPIRE study, is now available in pdf and printed paper format.
24 January | 2013CONNECT issue #10The January edition of CONNECT is now available to view online.
01 March | 2013“GÉANT network helping to advance EU collaboration” We are delighted that the EC has published a feature on the GÉANT network on its Digital Agenda for Europe newsroom page.
13 February | 2013eduroam CAT eases user configuration and admin supportAs the number of WiFi enabled devices grows, the eduroam Configuration Assistant Tool has been developed to simplify the process of enabling laptops, smartphones and tablets to connect.
07 March | 2013GÉANT and EGI formalise collaborationAgreement will strengthen service offering to global research community.
05 March | 2013DANTE wins Best Technology Innovation Award for GÉANT networkInnovative project awarded accolade in the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Networking.
08 March | 2013GÉANT picks up 1st prize for ‘Driving technology across the digital divide’GÉANT has received first prize in the Excellent Science category for its entry ‘Driving technology across the digital divide’.
28 January | 2013Tracking Kyrgyzstan’s melting glaciersHigh speed networks helping to forewarn of disasters.
20 February | 2013CSC celebrates opening of new green data centreCSC – IT Center for Science has formally launched its new data centre in Kajaani - possibly the most eco-efficient data centre in the world.
28 February | 2013OpenFlow Competition results announcedAfter a very successful competition, the GEANT OpenFlow team is proud to announce the results of the slice contest which closed on the 22nd of February.
06 February | 2013Announcing PERFORMANCE U!Performance U! is an expert school that aims to train performance experts, providing validated performance resources and face to face training.
01 February | 2013Could music find the right key to treating epilepsy by forecasting impending seizures?Musicians and scientists use high speed data networks to collaborate on melody analysis tool.
10 January | 2013Q&A with Dr. F F Tusubira, CEO of the UbuntuNet AllianceHighly anticipated launch of the regional component of the high-speed UbuntuNet network.
06 March | 2013DANTE pushing towards world’s first 100G transatlantic networkDANTE, representing the pan-European GÉANT network, and the America Connects to Europe project (ACE), managed by Indiana University, have launched a Prior Information Notice (PIN) to progress the implementation of the first ever 100G (gigabits per second) transatlantic links for the research and education community.
01 April | 2013First GÉANT Open Call Announced€3.3 million European Commission funding Multi-Domain Network R&D activities.
09 April | 2013Discover how GÉANT is helping nuclear fusion scientists tackle the global energy crisisGÉANT, the world’s leading high-speed research and education network managed and operated by DANTE in Cambridge, UK, will be providing data links to the International Fusion Energy Research Centre (IFERC), in Rokkasho, Japan.
12 April | 2013ORIENTplus upgrade supercharges EU-China collaborative research and educationResearchers, academics and students across Europe and China are set to benefit from the 10 Gbps upgrade of the ORIENTplus research and education (R&E) Internet link, celebrated at its launch event today in London.
24 April | 2013World's first 100G intercontinental research and education linkSix of the world’s leading research and education networks today announced their intent to build the world’s first 100 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) intercontinental transmission links for research and education.
08 May | 2013CONNECT issue 11 is now availableThe April issue of CONNECT is now available! You can view it booklet style or download the PDF.
13 May | 2013TERENA Secretary General Receives Royal HonourTERENA is pleased to announce that its Secretary General, Karel Vietsch, has been honoured with a royal decoration for his outstanding contribution to research and education networking and the Internet in general
21 May | 2013eduroam training for AfricaConnect partnersSuccessful event delivers sustainable training for eduroam deployment.
29 May | 2013GÉANT exhibiting at TNC2013Panel session on innovation leads packed line-up.
03 June | 2013DANTE and Infinera deliver 2Tb/s capacity in less than 12 minutes on GÉANT production network from Amsterdam to FrankfurtInfinera, a leading provider of Digital Optical Networks and DANTE announced today the fastest known provisioning of multi-Terabit capacity across a live network.
03 June | 2013World's first intercontinental 100 Gbps link for research and education demonstratedSix of the world’s leading R&E networks and two commercial partners today demonstrated for the first time a Transatlantic 100 gigabits-per-second transmission link between North America and Europe
10 June | 2013Ultra-high definition technology creates 3D ‘virtual’ patients High-speed networks and remote medical training
25 June | 2013DANTE and NSRC team up to narrow the global digital divideMoU signed to formalise cooperation in support of connecting the least connected.
25 June | 2013Cloud Strategy White PaperThe GÉANT Cloud Services Team presented their Cloud Strategy White Paper at the EUNIS 2013 conference in Riga, Latvia on 12-14 June.
04 July | 2013Call for Translators - Making Campus Best Practice even betterThrough its Campus Best Practice activities, GÉANT provides support to hundreds of users across Europe and the rest of the world – helping them with configuring, managing and securing their networks and IT infrastructure.
28 May | 2013DANTE and UbuntuNet Alliance award contract to WIOCCNew high-speed internet will connect the world to African research and education.
10 July | 2013DANTE celebrates 20 years of networking excellenceHow a Cambridge not-for-profit company is changing the face of global research.
22 July | 2013DANTE announces new Chief Network Operations OfficerDANTE has today announced that Mark Johnston has been appointed Chief Network Operations Officer
05 December | 2013Afghanistan’s universities accelerate on the virtual Silk Road High-speed Internet links for research and education announced.
31 July | 2013GÉANT's terabit upgrade gives European science the data network of the future50 million users of Europe's critical data communications infrastructure to benefit from increased capacity, faster service provision and self-healing resiliency.
14 August | 2013Infinera and DANTE Set Guinness World Record on GÉANT NetworkRecord set for fastest provisioning of long haul optical transmission capacity.
20 August | 2013CONNECT issue 12 is now availableIssue 12 is now available! You can view it booklet style or download the PDF.
23 September | 2013XIFI Competitive Call for Additional Project Partners and Information DayThe XIFI project paves the way for the establishment of large-scale trials, dedicated to Future Internet services and applications,
08 October | 2013CONNECT issue 13 is now available!Issue 13 is now available! You can view it booklet style or download the PDF.
10 October | 2013GÉANT adds congratulations to winners of Nobel Prize in PhysicsMáire Geoghegan-Quinn congratulated Belgian physicist François Englert and British physicist Peter W. Higgs for winning the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.
17 October | 2013Network performance and monitoring across the equatorGrowing communities of common skills and interests, with GÉANT’s eduPERT and perfSONAR MDM services
25 October | 2013GÉANT exhibiting at ICT 2013GÉANT is exhibiting at ICT 2013, an exhibition for projects and companies to showcase their research and products on 6-8 November, 2013 in Vilnius.
29 October | 2013JRA1 Workshop November 2013Meeting the challenges of the data deluge – A workshop on future network architectures.
30 October | 2013Astronomers benefit from NEXPReS and GÉANTNEXPReS project improves radio astronomy techniques with GÉANT.
04 November | 2013GÉANT and the Global AllianceOpen-data champions EMBL-EBI and ELIXIR have joined a global alliance to enable the secure and responsible sharing of genomic and clinical data.
05 November | 2013eduPERT helps users to help themselveseduPERT is an open community created by GÉANT to help scientists and researchers trouble-shoot poor network performance themselves.
07 November | 2013New Cloud Computing service from GRNET available to GÉANT communityThe GÉANT community can now experience the power and flexibility of GRNET’s successful ~okeanos IaaS cloud computing service.
12 November | 2013GÉANT exhibiting at Super Computing 2013On 18 – 21 November, 2013, GÉANT is exhibiting at SC13, the international conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in Denver, CO, US.
13 November | 2013Transatlantic Bandwidth-on-Demand is now in full productionEuropean and US researchers benefit from even faster, more flexible connectivity.
14 November | 2013International User Advisory CommitteeThe International User Advisory Committee (IUAC), has been created as an external group to provide expert user input to the GÉANT project.
20 November | 2013Q&A with Afrodite Sevasti, GÉANT Activity LeaderAfrodite Sevasti of Greek NREN GRNET, leads the Joint Research Activity (JRA2) - part of the GÉANT Innovation Programme - focusing on technology testing for service specific applications.
21 November | 2013GÉANT at ICT 2013 - A resounding successOver 5500 visitors descended upon Vilnius, Lithuania, to ICT 2013, an exhibition for organisations to showcase their projects and latest findings in advanced research and innovation.
18 December | 2013Success at Supercomputing 2013November saw GÉANT joining over 350 other exhibitors in Denver, Colorado for SC13. The event, now in its 25th year, saw an impressive gathering of over 10,000 attendees from 56 countries.
19 December | 2013GÉANT project receives ‘Excellent’ accolade from European CommissionThe GÉANT project, which includes the high-speed data network serving 50 million research and education users across Europe, has received ‘Excellent’, the highest possible rating in a European Commission review.

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