National research and education network

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A National Research and Education Network (NREN) is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country.

It is usually distinguished by support for a high-speed backbone network, often offering dedicated channels for individual research projects.

NRENs are usually the places where new Internet protocols and architectures are introduced before deployment within the Public Internet.[citation needed] Two examples of these protocols are IPv6 and IP multicast. Two examples of architecture are client/server and Cloud computing.

In recent years NRENs have also developed many 'above the net' services. National Identity federations, many of which are represented in REFEDs, are one example of such services.

List of NRENs by geographic area

East and Southern Africa

North Africa

West and Central Africa

Asia Pacific

North America

Name Type
Internet2 national
National LambdaRail national
ESnet national
CalREN state (California)
CEN state (Connecticut)
Illinois Century Network state (Illinois)
KanREN state (Kansas)
Merit Network state (Michigan)
NERO state (Oregon)
NCREN state (North Carolina)
NYSERNet state (New York)
OARnet state (Ohio)
PennREN state (Pennsylvania)
UEN state (Utah)
Name Type
CANARIE national
ACORN-NL provincial (Newfoundland and Labrador)
ACORN-NS provincial (Nova Scotia)
BCNET provincial (British Columbia)
Cybera provincial (Alberta)
ECN provincial (New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island)
MRnet provincial (Manitoba)
ORION provincial (Ontario)
RISQ provincial (Quebec)
SRNet provincial (Saskatchewan)

Latin America

High-speed Fibre Optic Data Link to ALMA and REUNA.[1]

Caribbean

  • C@ribNET - Caribbean NREN
  • TTRENT - Trinidad and Tobago NREN
  • JREN - Jamaica NREN
  • RADEI - NREN of the Dominican Republic

Europe

Scandinavia

Middle East

Central Asia

Antartica

  • Antarctica - None

Historical

References

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External links

  • Overview of Uzbekistan NREN (UZSCINet) in CEENGINE newsletter [2]
  • Overview of Ukrainian NRENs (URAN & UARNET) in CEENGINE newsletter [3]
  • Overview of Albanian NREN (ANA-AL) in CEENGINE newsletter [4]
  • Overview of Bulgarian NREN (BREN) in CEENGINE newsletter [5]
  • Signing of Trinidad and Tobago NREN (TTRENT) in Trinidad Guardian newspaper
  • [6]

Annual Compendiums

Further reading and case studies

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