National research and education network

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A National Research and Education Network (NREN) is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country.

It is usually distinguished by support for a high-speed backbone network, often offering dedicated channels for individual research projects.

NRENs are usually the places where new Internet protocols and architectures are introduced before deployment within the Public Internet.[citation needed] Two examples of these protocols are IPv6 and IP multicast. Two examples of architecture are client/server and Cloud computing.

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List of NRENs by Geographic Area [edit]

  • North Africa
  • West and Central Africa
  • North America:
  • South America
    • CLARA - Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (Association of Latin American NRENs)
    • Innova-Red - Argentinian NREN
    • RNP - Brazilian NREN
    • REUNA - Chilean NREN
    • RENATA - Colombian NREN
    • CR2Net - Costa Rican NREN
    • CEDIA - Ecuadorian NREN
    • RAICES - El Salvadoran NREN
    • RAGIE - Guatemalan NREN
    • UNITEC - Honduran NREN
    • CUDI - Mexican NREN
    • RENIA - Nicaraguan NREN
    • RedCyT - Panamanian NREN
    • Arandu - Paraguayan NREN
    • RAAP - Peruvian NREN
    • CKLN - Caribbean NREN
    • RAU - Uruguayan NREN
    • REACCIUN CNTI?- Venezuelan NREN
  • Caribbean:
    • TTRENT - Trinidad and Tobago NREN

Historical [edit]

References [edit]

External links [edit]

  • Overview of Uzbekistan NREN (UZSCINet) in CEENGINE newsletter [2]
  • Overview of Ukrainian NRENs (URAN & UARNET) in CEENGINE newsletter [3]
  • Overview of Albanian NREN (ANA-AL) in CEENGINE newsletter [4]
  • Overview of Bulgarian NREN (BREN) in CEENGINE newsletter [5]
  • Signing of Trinidad and Tobago NREN (TTRENT) in Trinidad Guardian newspaper
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Annual Compendiums [edit]

Further reading and case studies [edit]