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.
List of NRENs by geographic area[edit]
East and Southern Africa[edit]
- UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking - the Alliance of NRENs of East and Southern Africa
- Eb@le - DRC NREN
- EthERNet - Ethiopian NREN
- iRENALA - Madagascan NREN
- KENET - Kenyan NREN
- MAREN - Malawian NREN
- MoRENet - Mozambican NREN
- RENU - Ugandan NREN
- RwEdNet - Rwanda NREN
- SomaliREN - Somali NREN
- SudREN - Sudanese NREN
- TENET/SANReN - South African NREN
- TERNET - Tanzanian NREN
- Xnet - Namibian NREN
- ZAMREN - Zambian NREN
North Africa[edit]
West and Central Africa[edit]
- WACREN - West and Central African Research and Education Network
- GARNET - Ghanaian NREN
- MaliREN - Mali NREN
- NigerREN - Nigerien NREN
- RITER - Côte d'Ivoire NREN
- SenRER - Senegalese NREN
- NgREN - Nigerian NREN
Asia Pacific[edit]
- APAN - Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
- AARNet - Australian NREN
- BDREN - Bangladeshi NREN
- CSTNET CERNET NSFCNET - Chinese NREN
- HARNET - Hong Kong NREN
- KOREN - Korean NREN
- KREONET- Korean NREN
- ERNET - Indian NREN
- INHERENT - Indonesian NREN
- SINET - Japanese NREN
- LEARN - Sri Lankan NREN
- MYREN - Malaysian NREN
- NREN - Nepal NREN
- REANNZ - New Zealand NREN
- PERN - Pakistani NREN
- PREGINET - Philippine NREN
- SingAREN - Singaporean NREN
- TWAREN - Taiwanese NREN
- UniNet - Thai NREN
- VinaRen - Vietnamese NREN
North America[edit]
- Internet2 (UCAID) - NREN of the United States of America
- National LambdaRail (NLR) - United States NREN
- ESnet - Energy Sciences Network
- NCREN - North Carolina Research and Education Network
- KanREN - Kansas Research and Education Network
- CalREN - Californian NREN CENIC
- CANARIE (CA*Net) - Canadian NREN
South America[edit]
- CLARA - Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (Association of Latin American NRENs)
- Innova-Red - Argentinian NREN
- ADSIB - Bolivian NREN
- RNP - Brazilian NREN
- REUNA - Chilean NREN
- RENATA - Colombian NREN
- RedCONARE - Costa Rican NREN
- CEDIA - Ecuadorian NREN
- RAICES - El Salvadoran NREN
- RAGIE - Guatemalan NREN
- Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC) - Honduran NREN
- CUDI - Mexican NREN
- RENIA - Nicaraguan NREN
- RedCyT - Panamanian NREN
- Arandu - Paraguayan NREN
- RAAP - Peruvian NREN
- RAU - Uruguayan NREN
- REACCIUN CNTI?- Venezuelan NREN
Caribbean[edit]
- C@ribNET - Caribbean NREN
- TTRENT - Trinidad and Tobago NREN
- JREN - Jamaica NREN
- RADEI - NREN of the Dominican Republic
Europe[edit]
- DANTE - GÉANT2 backbone network on behalf of European NREN
- TERENA - Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association
- CEENet - Central and Eastern European Research Networking Association [1]
- Eumedconnect - South Mediterranean Backbone
- AzScienceNet National Research and Education Network of Azerbaijan
- ACOnet - Austrian NREN
- BASNET - Belarus NREN
- Belnet - Belgian NREN
- BREN - Bulgarian NREN
- CESNET - Czech NREN
- CARNet - Croatian NREN
- CYNET - Cypriot NREN
- SURFnet - Dutch NREN
- EENet - Estonian NREN
- RENATER - French NREN
- Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN) - German NREN
- GRNET - Greek NREN
- NIIF/HUNGARNET - Hungarian NREN
- HEAnet - Irish NREN
- GARR - Italian NREN
- KazRENA - Kazakhstan NREN
- SigmaNet - Latvian NREN
- LITNET - Lithuanian NREN
- RENATER - French NREN
- RESTENA - Luxembourg NREN
- MARNET - Macedonian NREN
- UoM-CSC - Maltese NREN
- RENAM - Moldovian NREN
- MREN - Montenegro NREN
- PIONIER (PCSS) - Polish NREN
- FCCN - Portuguese NREN
- RoEduNet - Romanian NREN
- AMRES - Serbian NREN
- ARNES - Slovenian NREN
- SANET - Slovakian NREN
- RedIRIS - Spanish NREN
- SWITCH - Swiss NREN
- ULAKBIM - Turkish NREN
- URAN - Ukrainian NREN
- Janet - United Kingdom NREN
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Middle East[edit]
- Eumedconnect - Mediterranean/North African Backbone
- ANKABUT UAE NREN
- IUCC - Israeli NREN
- JUnet Jordanian NREN
- PALNREN Palestinian NREN
- Lebanon
- Birzeit Uni/AlQuds Palestinian Authority
- Qartar FN - Qartarian NREN
- HIAST Syrian NREN
- RUNNet RIPN RBnet- Russian University Network, Russian NREN
- ASNET-AM - Armenian
- AzRENA - Azerbaijan
- BASNET UNIBEL Belarus
- GRENA - Georgian NREN
- KazRENA - Kazakhstan NREN
- KRENA - Kyrgyzian NREN
- TuRENA - Turkmenistan NREN
- UzSciNet - Uzbekistan NREN
Historical[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- 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[edit]
Further reading and case studies[edit]
- Research and Education Networking FAQ
- India - High Performance Computing Networks & NRENS.pdf
- Digital Divide & REN, Case of Bangladesh
