Providing high-bandwidth, high-speed international connectivity for millions of academic users. GÉANT IP provides general-purpose IP transit for national research and education networking (NREN) organisations and other approved research and education partners and providers. Its core function is to provide a private service for IP (internet protocol) traffic that is separated from general...
Connectivity & network management
The connectivity services delivered by the GÉANT Network support the NRENs in delivering world-class network facilities to the research and education community.
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...
Many research projects require the additional security and reassurance of a virtual private network (VPN) to ensure data services are isolated from general IP (internet protocol) traffic. By creating a virtual IP network, all sites on the VPN can communicate flexibly without the need to arrange separate networks, whilst benefiting from the privacy and security of a private infrastructure. VPNs...
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...
In addition to connectivity services, GÉANT offers a range of network management and monitoring services to support NRENs and institutions.
NMaaS – Network Management as a Service Why do users need NMaaS? Today’s network services are complex with heterogeneous network infrastructures and increasing numbers of value added services and features. Services are becoming increasingly mission critical for end users and the need to provide an integrated view of Network and Service Management will become vital. The cost and complexity...
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...
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.
WiFiMon – Wireless Crowdsourced Performance Monitoring and Verification Why do Institutions need WiFIMon? WiFi access (and in particular eduroam access) is now accepted as an essential part of the wider campus experience. Not being able to connect to network resources can damage user experiences and can result in users having to use mobile 4G data connections rather than WiFi. Most WiFi...
GÉANT perfSONAR nodes perfSONAR Consultancy and Expertise perfSONAR Consultancy and Expertise aims to provide support and disseminate knowledge about perfSONAR usage for the GÉANT community and offers four different activity types: Help to ensure that design measurement architectures and infrastructures based on perfSONAR fit the performance monitoring and measurement needs of the requesting...
Performance Measurement Platform (PMP) is a successor of perfSONAR Small Nodes, successfully completed in the GÉANT project. It consists of: Low-cost hardware nodes with pre-installed perfSONAR software and deployed in GÉANT collaborating organisations in Europe and Africa. Central components including a central Measurement Archive (MA) and a Dashboard. The small nodes are performing regular...
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...
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...