Interconnecting research and education communities across the world
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.
GÉANT manages research and education networking projects serving Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, Africa and transatlantic connectivity to Latin America. In addition, it supports research and education networking organisations in Asia-Pacific, coordinates Europe-China collaboration and nurtures relationships with counterparts in North America.
Service collaborations cover areas such as network performance monitoring, connectivity roaming (eduroam) and federated access (eduGAIN), and real-time communications.

The Americas

There is a long–standing relationship between pan-European research and education networking and R&E networks in Canada and the USA, which has led to diverse transatlantic links being established in reciprocal arrangements between the two continents. In this collaborative environment, GÉANT provides a 100Gbps link to New York, along with other links provided by Internet2 and CANARIE, ESnet, Indiana University, SURF and NORDUnet, and NII/SINET (Japanese NREN) on the Advanced North Atlantic (ANA) collaboration. ANA ensures that there is abundant capacity and no single points of failure, enabling research and education traffic between the two regions to flow seamlessly. GÉANT's North American partners
In Canada the research and education networking environment is provided for by CANARIE. In the USA the key national organisations are ESnet, Internet2, Indiana University and the NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN), each of which caters for a subset of the US research and education community.

RedCLARA - the Latin American research and education network
The RedCLARA non-profit organisation manages the pan-Latin American RedCLARA research and education network. Thanks to the BELLA Programme, GÉANT and RedCLARA are interconnected on the new EllaLink submarine cable system that connects Europe directly to South America via Sines in Portugal and Fortaleza in Brazil. Two links are currently established, both at 100Gbps. One supports general purpose R&E traffic, and one is dedicated to Copernicus data transfers via the two regions. However, with the spectrum acquired by the BELLA Programme, the capacity between the two regions can be in line with user demands. BELLA is also finalising the deployment of a 100Gbps network throughout South America that will ensure 100Gbps capacities between NRENs in the two regions. BELLA is co-funded by the European Union through DG CNECT, DG DEFIS, and DG INTPA. For more information about RedCLARA, visit www.redclara.net For more information about BELLA, visit bella-programme.redclara.net
Africa and Western Asia





Asia and Pacific


- Two 10Gbps links to China, procured by GÉANT in collaboration with the two research and education Chinese networks, CERNET and CSTNET who, respectively, support Europe-Chinese research, providing mutual back-up for each other, and for the CAE-1 100Gbps link between European and the Asia-Pacific region.
- A direct 100Gbps provided by the Japanese network NII/SINET supports Europe-Japan collaborations.
- The Academia Sinica Grid Computing (ASGC) network of Taiwan also peers with GÉANT via a 10Gbps link to the GÉANT point-of-presence in Amsterdam. In addition, TWAREN (Taiwan) peers with GÉANT in New York.
