GÉANT

GÉANT is a European collaborative organization for e-infrastructure and related services for research and education.
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GÉANT develops and operates a high capacity network connecting European national research and education networks (NREN's) with each other and with the rest of the world. GÉANT also coordinates a number of EU-funded development projects.

GÉANT is owned by 38 European NREN's and NORDUnet representing the five Nordic NREN's.

DeiC is connected to the GÉANT networking infrastructure through NORDUnet.

DeiC is also involved in multiple working groups, task forces, special interest groups and research projects within GÉANT.

SIG's

  • CTO Martin Bech is chair of the SIG-MSP (Special Interest Group on Management of Service Portfolios)
  • Head of secretariat Gitte Julin Kudsk is a member of the steering group for the SIG-Marcomms (Special Interest Group on Marketing Communications)

Research and development projects

  • Bandwidth-on-Demand (BoD)
  • MDVPN (Multi Domain Virtual Private Network)
  • EduSAFE

DeiC is represented in the projects by project manager Tangui Coulouarn.

Revised
17 Apr 2024

Related news and events

Cloud
Grafik: DeiC
15 Mar 2021
Infrastructure-as-a-Service vendors have now been appointed
The tender process at GÉANT for the so-called Open Clouds for Research and Education contracts has now been completed. Hundreds of contracts have been concluded in many European countries.
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