Point-to-Point Circuits

GÉANT2 offers two distinct classes of point-to-point services to NRENs requiring dedicated international circuits:

the GÉANT+ service
full wavelength (10Gbps) services

The subset of GÉANT2 participants connected by dark fibre (and therefore able to receive point-to-point services) are described as being "within the GEANT2 fibre cloud". At present, these comprise:

ACOnet (Austria)
ARNES (Slovenia)
BELNET (Belgium)
CARNet (Croatia)
CESNET (Czech Republic)
DFN (Germany)
GARR (Italy)
HEAnet (Ireland)
NIIF (Hungary)
NORDUnet (Nordic region)
PSNC (Poland –currently GÉANT+ service only)
RedIRIS (Spain)
RENATER (France)
SANET (Slovakia)
SURFnet (Netherlands)
SWITCH (Switzerland)
UKERNA (United Kingdom)

GÉANT+

All NRENs subscribing to GÉANT+ have a pre-paid quota of 10Gbps of GÉANT+ capacity. In practice, this means that up to nine Gigabit Ethernet circuits (or equivalent) can be requested at short notice to any combination of NRENs within the GÉANT2 fibre cloud. GÉANT+ circuits can be configured rapidly - usually within a few days of order confirmation.

Full Wavelength (10Gbps) Services

Full-capacity 10Gbps wavelengths can also be ordered between any two fibre-cloud GÉANT2 points-of-presence. Provisioning of GÉANT2 10Gbps
circuits require the ordering of transponders and possibly additional equipment. As such, delivery of full wavelengths is normally 14 weeks from confirmation of an order.