HEAnet (Ireland's National Education & Research Network), provides high-speed
InternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
access to academic institutions in
IrelandIreland is a country in north-western Europe. The modern sovereign state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned on 3 May 1921. It is a parliamentary democracy and a republic...
direct to
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
an and
USAThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
networks. The network is funded by the
Higher Education AuthorityThe Higher Education Authority is the authority in Ireland with responsibility for higher education since 1968 and placed on a statutory basis in 1971. The authority supports HEAnet, part of the GEANT network....
and is a
WANA wide area network is a computer network that covers a broad area...
-based network.
In 1984 the network was created with assistance from
Dublin Institute of TechnologyDublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
,
Dublin City UniversityDublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...
,
University of LimerickThe University of Limerick was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act 1989...
,
Trinity College, DublinTrinity College Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent college of...
,
University College, CorkUniversity College Cork is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland. The university is located in Cork....
,
University College, DublinUniversity College Dublin - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is Ireland's largest university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...
and
University College, GalwayThe National University of Ireland, Galway is a tertiary-level educational institution located in Galway, Ireland...
. Today approximately 50 organisations support its work, including the Institutes of Technology as well as other colleges and non-education organisations in Ireland.
HEAnet helped set up
INEXInternet Neutral Exchange is an Internet exchange located in the Republic of Ireland, with points of presence in Dublin at Citywest and Kilcarbery Park....
, the Internet Neutral EXchange, to allow
internet service providerAn Internet service provider is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet...
systems to interchange traffic within Ireland and was the first to connect at 10 Gbit/s .
HEAnet (Ireland's National Education & Research Network), provides high-speed
InternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
access to academic institutions in
IrelandIreland is a country in north-western Europe. The modern sovereign state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned on 3 May 1921. It is a parliamentary democracy and a republic...
direct to
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
an and
USAThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
networks. The network is funded by the
Higher Education AuthorityThe Higher Education Authority is the authority in Ireland with responsibility for higher education since 1968 and placed on a statutory basis in 1971. The authority supports HEAnet, part of the GEANT network....
and is a
WANA wide area network is a computer network that covers a broad area...
-based network.
In 1984 the network was created with assistance from
Dublin Institute of TechnologyDublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
,
Dublin City UniversityDublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...
,
University of LimerickThe University of Limerick was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act 1989...
,
Trinity College, DublinTrinity College Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent college of...
,
University College, CorkUniversity College Cork is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland. The university is located in Cork....
,
University College, DublinUniversity College Dublin - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is Ireland's largest university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...
and
University College, GalwayThe National University of Ireland, Galway is a tertiary-level educational institution located in Galway, Ireland...
. Today approximately 50 organisations support its work, including the Institutes of Technology as well as other colleges and non-education organisations in Ireland.
HEAnet helped set up
INEXInternet Neutral Exchange is an Internet exchange located in the Republic of Ireland, with points of presence in Dublin at Citywest and Kilcarbery Park....
, the Internet Neutral EXchange, to allow
internet service providerAn Internet service provider is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet...
systems to interchange traffic within Ireland and was the first to connect at 10 Gbit/s . HEAnet is connected to INEX via two 10 Gbit/s links,
JANETJANET is a private British government-funded computer network dedicated to education and research. All further- and higher-education organisations in the UK are connected to JANET, as are all the Research Councils; the majority of these sites are connected via 20 metropolitan area networks JANET...
in the
UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
via two 1 Gbit/s links,
GEANTGÉANT is the main European multi-gigabit computer network for research and education purposes. GÉANT link speeds range from 155 Mbit/s on the slowest spur links to 10 Gbit/s in the core optical fiber network....
in Europe via two 10 Gbit/s links and the General Internet via two 10 Gbit/s links. They also have several links to research networks in
North AmericaNorth America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific...
. Additionally there are several non-research links to the USA, Europe and South-East Asia.
HEAnet also hosts a popular
mirror service, which acts as a mirror for projects such as
SourceForge.netSourceForge is a web-based source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development. The website is operated by SourceForge, Inc. and runs a version of SourceForge Enterprise Edition, forked from the last open-source...
,
DebianDebian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software especially under the GNU General Public License and other open source licenses. The primary form, Debian GNU/Linux, which uses the Linux kernel and GNU OS tools, is a popular and...
, Gentoo,
UbuntuUbuntu , is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution. It is named after the South African ethical ideology Ubuntu and is distributed as free and open source software. Ubuntu provides an up-to-date, stable operating system for the average user, with a strong focus on...
and
Red HatRed Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....
.
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