RedIRIS is the national research and education network (NREN) for Spain

Spain

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. It is part of Red.es, which also administers and oversees the .es

.es

.es is the country code top-level domain for Spain. It is administered by the Network Information Center of Spain.Registrations are permitted at the second level or at the third level beneath various generic second level categories. Some qualifications and restrictions apply to third-level...

 national Top-level domain

Top-level domain

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. Most Spanish universities and research centers are interconnected through RedIRIS, currently totalling about 260 institutions. RedIRIS also acts as an Internet Service Provider

Internet service provider

An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...

 for affiliated institutions, through links with Telia

Telia

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 and Global Crossing

Global Crossing

Global Crossing Limited was a telecommunications company that provides computer networking services worldwide. It maintained a large backbone and offered transit and peering links, VPN, leased lines, audio and video conferencing, long distance telephone, managed services, dialup, colocation and...

. As a national NREN, RedIRIS is connected to the high-speed European GÉANT2

GÉANT2

GÉANT2 is the seventh generation of pan-European research and education network, successor to the pan-European multi-gigabit research network GÉANT. The project within which the network is funded began officially on 1 September 2004, and is due to run for four years.The GÉANT2 network provides...

 backbone, similar to the US-based Abilene Network

Abilene Network

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.

Other services provided by RedIRIS include a collection of FTP mirrors, customized software for affiliated institutions, interconnection with the Eduroam

Eduroam

eduroam is a secure international roaming service for users in Higher Education. The European eduroam confederation is based on a set of defined organisational and technical requirements that each member of the confederation must agree to and follow.- History...

European wireless network, LISTSERV service, BlackList IP Service for relays, and an incident response team, IRIS-CERT.

External links

• RedIRIS website
• RedIRIS network map including internal and external links
• Red.es, oversees RedIRIS
• Eduroam.es website
• forum for incident response, of which IRIS-CERT is a participant.