GÉANT2 is the high-bandwidth, academic Internet serving Europe’s research and education community. Connecting over 30 million researchers with a multi-domain topology spanning 34 European countries and links to a number of other world regions, GÉANT2 is at the heart of global research networking.
GÉANT2 is co-funded by the European Commission and Europe's national research and education networks, and is managed by DANTE.
The roll-out of the GÉANT2 network is almost finished. All of the network's 25 Points of Presence (PoPs) are fully equipped and in service. 43 of the network's total of 44 routes are fully installed and operational, with just one of the 18 originally planned dark fibre routes still in preparation. An additional dark fibre link to Ireland is also in preparation. The first links came into service in early December 2005, between Switzerland and Italy, and Switzerland and Germany, respectively.
| Date: | Monday 4th Aug 2008 to Friday 8th Aug 2008 |
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| Location: | Millennium Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand |
| Date: | Thursday 25th Sep 2008 to Friday 26th Sep 2008 |
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| Location: | Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University of Prague, Czech Republic |