National research and education network
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 are introduced before deployment within the Internet.[citation needed] Two examples of these protocols are IPv6 and IP multicast.
List of NRENs
- Internet2 (UCAID) - de facto NREN of the United States of America
- CANARIE (CA*Net) - Canadian NREN
- APAN - Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
- AARNet - Australian NREN
- BAERIN - Bangladeshi NREN
- CSTNET - Chinese NREN
- ERNET - Indian NREN
- HARNET - Hong Kong NREN
- KAREN (REANNZ) - New Zealand NREN
- PERN - Pakistani NREN
- SINET - Japanese NREN
- MYREN - Malaysian NREN
- SingAREN - Singaporean NREN
- TWAREN - Taiwanese NREN
- Uninet - Thai NREN
- PREGINET - Philippine NREN
- CLARA - Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (Association of Latin American NRENs) that runs RedCLARA backbone network
- CEDIA - Ecuadorian NREN
- CR2Net - Costa Rican NREN
- CUDI - Mexican NREN
- RAAP - Peruvian NREN
- RAICES - El Salvadorean NREN
- RAGIE - Guatemalan NREN
- RAU - Uruguayan NREN
- REACCIUN - Venezuelan NREN
- RedCyT - Panamian NREN
- RENATE - Columbian NREN
- RENIA - Nicaraguan NREN
- RETINA - Argentinian NREN
- REUNA - Chilean NREN
- RNP - Brazilian NREN
- UNITEC - Honduran NREN
- KENET - Kenyan NREN
- MALICO/MAREN - Malawian NREN
- TENET - South African NREN
- TERENA - Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (Association of European NRENs)
- DANTE - runs GÉANT2 backbone network on behalf of European NRENs
- ACOnet - Austrian NREN
- AMRES - Serbian NREN
- ARNES - Slovenian NREN
- Belnet - Belgian NREN
- CARNet - Croatian NREN
- CESNET - Czech NREN
- CYNET - Cypriot NREN
- DFN - German NREN
- EENet - Estonian NREN
- FCCN - Portuguese NREN
- Consortium GARR - Italian NREN
- GRNET - Greek NREN
- HEAnet - Irish NREN
- HUNGARNET - Hungarian NREN
- IUCC - Israeli NREN
- JANET (JANET(UK)) - United Kingdom NREN
- SigmaNet - Latvian NREN
- LITNET - Lithuanian NREN
- MARNET - Macedonian NREN
- NORDUnet - Nordic backbone network
- PIONIER (PCSS) - Polish NREN
- RedIRIS - Spanish NREN
- RENATER - French NREN
- RESTENA - Luxembourg NREN
- RNC / RoEduNet - Romanian NRENs
- SANET - Slovakian NREN
- SURFnet - Dutch NREN
- SWITCH - Swiss NREN
- ULAKBIM - Turkish NREN
- University of Malta CSC - Maltese NREN
See also
External links
NRENs:
- Internet2 US Research and Education Network
- Asia Pacific Advanced Network Consortium REN in Asia & Pacific
- KIWI Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) New Zealand Research and Education Network
- Nepal Research and Education Network
Further reading and case studies:
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