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DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various National Research and Education Network
National Research and Education Network

A National Research and Education Network is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country....
s in Europe and surrounding regions. It was established in 1993 as a limited liability company owned by a number of NRENs and government agencies, and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The members are Consortium GARR (Italy) 14%, DFN (Germany) 14%, HEFCE (United Kingdom) 14%, RENATER
Renater

Renater is a France national public high speed computer networking dedicated to connecting universities, schools , and research centers through the whole country....
 (France) 14%, SURFnet
SURFnet

SURFnet is the organisation that develops, implements and maintains the national research and educational network of the Netherlands. The network itself is also called SURFnet....
 (The Netherlands) 9%, SWITCH
SWITCH Information Technology Services

SWITCH is the manager of the .ch and .li country-code top-level domains for Switzerland and Liechtenstein, respectively. It also manages the educational networks among Swiss universities, and the links to other university networks....
 (Switzerland) 9%, NORDUnet
NORDUnet

NORDUnet is an international collaboration between the Nordic countries national computer networks for research and education. The members of NORDUnet are:...
 (Scandinavia) 7%, CSIC
CSIC

The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient?ficas , Spanish language or Spanish National Research Council is the largest public research organisation in Spain....
 (Spain) 5%, ARNES
ARNES

ARNES stands for Academic and Research Network of Slovenia. Its main task is development, operation and management of the communication and information network for education and research, and was established as an independent public institution in 1992....
 (Slovenia) 2%, CESNET
CESNET

CESNET is Czech Republic's National Research and Education Network operator. It has been founded in 1996 by universities and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - ....
 (Czech Republic) 2%, FCCN (Portugal) 2%, HUNGARNET (Hungary) 2%, HEAnet
HEAnet

HEAnet , provides high-speed Internet access to academic institutions in Republic of Ireland direct to European and United States networks. The network is funded by the Higher Education Authority and is a Wide area network-based network....
 (Ireland) 2%, Ariadnet (Greece) 2%, and RESTENA (Luxembourg) 2%.

DANTE currently operates the GÉANT2
GEANT

G?ANT is the main European multi-gigabit computer network for research and education purposes. G?ANT link speeds range from 155 Mbit/s on the slowest spur links to 10 Gbit/s in the core optical fiber network....
 pan-European backbone network, and previously operated the earlier generation EuropaNET, TEN-34, and TEN-155 networks.






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DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various National Research and Education Network
National Research and Education Network

A National Research and Education Network is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country....
s in Europe and surrounding regions. It was established in 1993 as a limited liability company owned by a number of NRENs and government agencies, and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The members are Consortium GARR (Italy) 14%, DFN (Germany) 14%, HEFCE (United Kingdom) 14%, RENATER
Renater

Renater is a France national public high speed computer networking dedicated to connecting universities, schools , and research centers through the whole country....
 (France) 14%, SURFnet
SURFnet

SURFnet is the organisation that develops, implements and maintains the national research and educational network of the Netherlands. The network itself is also called SURFnet....
 (The Netherlands) 9%, SWITCH
SWITCH Information Technology Services

SWITCH is the manager of the .ch and .li country-code top-level domains for Switzerland and Liechtenstein, respectively. It also manages the educational networks among Swiss universities, and the links to other university networks....
 (Switzerland) 9%, NORDUnet
NORDUnet

NORDUnet is an international collaboration between the Nordic countries national computer networks for research and education. The members of NORDUnet are:...
 (Scandinavia) 7%, CSIC
CSIC

The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient?ficas , Spanish language or Spanish National Research Council is the largest public research organisation in Spain....
 (Spain) 5%, ARNES
ARNES

ARNES stands for Academic and Research Network of Slovenia. Its main task is development, operation and management of the communication and information network for education and research, and was established as an independent public institution in 1992....
 (Slovenia) 2%, CESNET
CESNET

CESNET is Czech Republic's National Research and Education Network operator. It has been founded in 1996 by universities and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - ....
 (Czech Republic) 2%, FCCN (Portugal) 2%, HUNGARNET (Hungary) 2%, HEAnet
HEAnet

HEAnet , provides high-speed Internet access to academic institutions in Republic of Ireland direct to European and United States networks. The network is funded by the Higher Education Authority and is a Wide area network-based network....
 (Ireland) 2%, Ariadnet (Greece) 2%, and RESTENA (Luxembourg) 2%.

DANTE currently operates the GÉANT2
GEANT

G?ANT is the main European multi-gigabit computer network for research and education purposes. G?ANT link speeds range from 155 Mbit/s on the slowest spur links to 10 Gbit/s in the core optical fiber network....
 pan-European backbone network, and previously operated the earlier generation EuropaNET, TEN-34, and TEN-155 networks. It also provides connections to Abilene
Abilene Network

Abilene Network was the United States high-performance backbone network created by the Internet2 community. It is now called Internet2 Network....
 (United States), ESnet (United States), CA*net4
CANARIE

CANARIE, the Canadian Advanced Network and Research for Industry and Education, is a Canada government supported non-profit corporation, founded in 1993, which maintains a set of leased wide area network links and also develops and deploys advanced computer network applications and technologies, for education and high-speed data transfe...
 (Canada), APAN (Asia-Pacific), RedCLARA
Clara

Clara is a town on the River Brosna in County Offaly in the midlands of Republic of Ireland....
 (Latin America), ERNET
ERNET

Education and Research Network , India is an autonomous scientific society of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology . ERNET has made a significant contribution to the emergence of networking in the country....
 (India), TENET
Tenet

Tenet may refer to:* Tenet , a Canadian heavy metal band* Tenet Healthcare, a hospital holding company* Tenet people, an ethnic group in Sudan...
 (South Africa), and a number of Mediterranean Region countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey).

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