29 May 2025 Hands-on practical exercises are a very important aspect of today’s learning. They enable students to get valuable real-world experience with the topic at hand, allowing them to grasp relevant concepts more easily. While the experience of taking part in such practical exercises is undoubtedly rewarding, organising them can be a challenging task for educators, especially when a large...
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nmaas is an open-source, multi-tenant orchestration platform for automated deployment and management of containerised applications in the cloud or on private infrastructure. It enables NRENs, institutions, research and development teams, and network and IT service providers to quickly deploy and operate a wide range of applications through a unified, self-service portal.
The Special Interest Group – Network Operations Centres (SIG-NOC) is a community effort initiated by the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) gathered under the GÉANT Association in Europe. The SIG-NOC creates an open forum where experts from the GÉANT Community and beyond exchange information, knowledge, ideas and best practices. These cover specific technical aspects or other areas...
Supporting High Volume High Performance Data Transfer Requirements Research projects, like those related to high energy, genomics or astronomy, need to transfer large amounts of data to complete calculations and get results in a relatively short period of time. In the past, the physical shipping of hard disks full of data was frequently the fastest option. With the high bandwidths offered by...
TimeMap is an open-source weather map-like platform which provides per-segment latency/jitter measurements on a network. TimeMap is especially important for low latency applications, as they require limited latency and jitter and is therefore extremely important for network engineers to be able to monitoring and identify any changes in these network parameters in the network.
Argus is a tool for NOCs and service centers to aggregate incidents from all their monitoring applications into a single, unified dashboard and notification system. Most NOCs will, out of necessity, use a myriad of applications to monitor their infrastructure and services. In turn, they need to contend with manually managing notification profiles and monitoring dashboards in each individual...
PMP – Privacy Notice – v3 Description of the Performance Measurement Platform (PMP) service The Performance Measurement Platform (PMP) consists of low-cost hardware nodes with pre-installed perfSONAR software. The nodes are performing regular measurements towards GÉANT measurement points located in the core of the network. The central components that manage the platform elements...
Seamless Wi-Fi access for research and education around the world. eduroam (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. eduroam allows students, researchers and staff to seamlessly access internet connectivity when within range of a hotspot, whether they’re moving across campus or visiting other...
High-performance interconnectivity for the most demanding networking requirements. For when shared IP services can’t provide the capacity or performance needed, GÉANT’s point-to-point services provide the perfect solution.
Facilitating open collaboration across the globe. The GÉANT Open connectivity service allows national research and education networking (NREN) organisations and approved commercial organisations to exchange connectivity in a highly efficient and flexible manner. The service uses shared facilities to which all users can connect their own circuits at either 100Gbps, or 10Gbps, and they can then...