GÉANT interconnects Europe's national research and education networks (NRENs) with the high bandwidth, high speed and highly resilient pan-European backbone, spanning 30,000km of fibre and spectrum. Together it connects Europe's researchers, academics and students to each other, and links them to over half the countries in the world.
Data Carried
10PB
10 Petabytes of data carried per day
Backbone Capacity
31Tbps
Up to 31 Terabits per second backbone capacity
Energy Efficiency
-80%
Power consumption per Tbps compared to 2019
Availability
99.999%
Average availability
GN4-3N news
- GÉANT’s GN4-3N project nominated for European Digital Connectivity Awards 2025
GÉANT is proud to announce that GN4-3N, the EU-funded project… Read more » - The GÉANT Project (GN5-1 and GN4-3N) Highlights
The GN5-1 and GN4-3N European Commission project reviews were successfully… Read more » - Industry news: Marcel Grech Mallia on securing Epic Malta’s 15-year IRU with GÉANT
As Chief Commercial Officer for Epic Malta, Marcel Grech Mallia… Read more »
GÉANT Global Connectivity
GÉANT collaborates with global research and education network partners to ensure high performance connectivity is in place, and also to make a range of services available to user groups across the world, enhancing their ability to work together. Find out more.Networking news
- GÉANT and CERNET strengthen Europe-China academic collaboration with tenfold increase in interconnection capacity
A symbolic signing ceremony to mark the renewed peering between… Read more » - When nanoseconds matter: CESNET develops technology for time distribution via optical networks
Although most people don’t think about it, precise time is… Read more » - New how-to-video on optical time-domain reflectometry on the Quantum eAcademy
The Network eAcademy has published a new “How-To-Video” under its… Read more » - Partner News: When the network becomes the sensor
How European research is turning submarine fibre-optic cables into seismic… Read more » - New learning unit in the Network Automation track of the Network eAcademy: “Maat”
A new learning unit is available in the Network Automation… Read more »