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.

In recent years NRENs have developed many 'above the net' services. National Identity federations, many of which are represented in , are one example of such services.

List of NRENs by geographic area[]

East and Southern Africa[]

North Africa[]

  • ASREN - Arab States Research and Education Network
  • - Tunisian NREN
  • - Moroccan NREN
  • - Egyptian NREN
  • - Algerian NREN
  • - Sudanese NREN
  • SomaliREN - Somali NREN

West and Central Africa[]

Asia Pacific[]

  • APAN - Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
  • AARNet - Australian NREN
  • - Afghanistan NREN
  • - Bangladeshi NREN
  • CSTNET - China Science and Technology Network
  • CERNET - China Education and Research Network
  • ERNET - Indian NREN
  • HARNET - Hong Kong NREN
  • KOREN - Korean NREN
  • KREONET- Korean NREN
  • IDREN - Indonesian NREN
  • LEARN - Sri Lankan NREN
  • - Japanese NREN
  • MYREN - Malaysian NREN
  • NKN - Indian NREN
  • NREN - Nepal NREN
  • NREN - Islamic Republic of Iran NREN
  • REANNZ - New Zealand NREN
  • PERN - Pakistani NREN
  • PREGINET - Philippine NREN
  • - Singaporean NREN
  • TWAREN - Taiwanese NREN
  • UniNet - Thai NREN
  • - Vietnamese NREN
  • CamREN- Cambodia NREN
  • TEIN - Trans Eurasia Information Network

North America[]

  • United States – although advocated since the 1980s,[1] the U.S. does not have one single NREN.
Name Type
Internet2 national
National LambdaRail national [closed]
vBNS national [closed]
Edge state (New Jersey)
ESnet national
regional (New England)
CENIC state (California)
CEN state (Connecticut)
Illinois Century Network state (Illinois)
state (Kansas)
state (Texas) [2]
Merit Network state (Michigan)
state (Oregon)
state (North Carolina)
NYSERNet state (New York)
OARnet state (Ohio)
OSHEAN state (Rhode Island)
state (Pennsylvania)
state (Texas) [3]
UEN state (Utah)
state (West Virginia)
  • Canada
Name Type
CANARIE national
provincial (Newfoundland and Labrador)
ACORN-NS provincial (Nova Scotia)
provincial (British Columbia)
Cybera provincial (Alberta)
provincial (Ontario)
provincial (New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island)
provincial (Manitoba)
ORION provincial (Ontario)
RISQ provincial (Quebec)
SRNet provincial (Saskatchewan)

Latin America[]

High-speed Fibre Optic Data Link to ALMA and .[4]
  • RedCLARA - Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (Association of Latin American NRENs)
  • Innova-Red - Argentinian NREN
  • ADSIB - Bolivian NREN
  • RNP - Brazilian NREN
  • REUNA - Chilean NREN
  • RENATA - Colombian NREN
  • RedCONARE - Costa Rican NREN
  • CEDIA - Ecuadorian NREN
  • RAICES - El Salvadoran NREN
  • - Guatemalan NREN
  • Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC) - Honduran NREN
  • CUDI - Mexican NREN
  • - Nicaraguan NREN
  • - Panamanian NREN
  • Arandu - Paraguayan NREN
  • - Peruvian NREN
  • - Uruguayan NREN
  • CNTI?- Venezuelan NREN

Caribbean[]

  • - Caribbean NREN
  • TTRENT - Trinidad and Tobago NREN
  • - Jamaica NREN
  • - NREN of the Dominican Republic

Europe[]

Nordic countries[]

Middle East[]

  • Maeen Saudi Arabia NREN
  • - Mediterranean/North African Backbone
  • UAE NREN
  • Omani NREN
  • IUCC - Israeli NREN
  • Jordanian NREN
  • Iranian NREN
  • Palestinian NREN
  • Lebanon
  • Palestinian Authority
  • QNREN - Qatar NREN
  • HIAST Syrian NREN

Central Asia[]

  • RUNNet - Russian University Network, Russian NREN
  • ASNET-AM - Armenian
  • AzScienceNet Azerbaijan NREN
  • Belarus
  • - Georgian NREN
  • KazRENA - Kazakhstan NREN
  • - Kyrgyzian NREN
  • - Turkmenistan NREN
  • UZSCINET - Uzbekistan NREN

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ National Research Council (U.S.). National Research Network Review Committee, Leonard Kleinrock; et al. (1988). Toward a National Research Network. National Academies.
  2. ^ http://www.tx-learn.org/
  3. ^ https://www.the.net/
  4. ^ "New High-speed Fibre Optic Data Link to ALMA". www.eso.org. European Southern Observatory. Retrieved 20 January 2015.

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