GRNET
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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....
of Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. GRNET develops and provides advanced services of national and international internet access to the Research, Academic and Education communities of Greece, with its gigabit GRNET2 network and the Virtual NOC supportive scheme. The mission of the Greek Research and Technology Network GRNET/ΕΔΕΤ is the provision of high-quality international and national networking services to Greek academic and research institutions and to the public and private sector in support of their research and educational activities. GRNET also supports Universities, Technological Education Institutes and over 9500 schools via the Greek School Network .
Main Services
GRNET Main offices are located at 56 Mesogion Avenue in Athens, Greece, 37°59′13.10"N 23°45′56.95"E.GRNET services include:
- operates the Greek Internet ExchangeGreek Internet ExchangeThe Greek Internet Exchange is an Internet exchange point situated in Athens, in Greece. It was founded in 2009 in order to replace the Athens Internet Exchange as the principal Internet Exchange Point in Greece, which was achieved in January 2010. GR-IX is non-profit, independent and is...
(GR-IX)http://www.gr-ix.gr/, which provides local interconnection (peering) among all major Greek Internet Service ProviderInternet service providerAn 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...
s (ISPs). - provides international interconnection among the National Research & Education Networks (NRENs) of Europe and the Internet through the research network GEANTGEANTGÉANT is the main European multi-gigabit computer network for research and education purposes...
http://www.geant.net/. - manages / participates in a number of Operational Programmes, such as the e-Business Forumhttp://www.ebusinessforum.gr/ and the Go Digital Training Supporthttp://www.go-online.gr/.The main objectives of these programmes include the promotion of Internet technologies, the exchange of opinions, ideas and expertise, and the endorsement of e-business knowledge accumulation, focusing on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
- promotes the use and the development of open source software products in Greece http://www.open-source.gr/.
- promotes the use of Broadbandhttp://www.broad-band.gr/ technologies in Greece.
Networking
- 27 Universities
- 15 Technical Universities
- 33 Research Institutions and
- 12,673 schools to the Pan-European Research and Education Network, GEANThttp://www.geant.net/.
Grid Computing
GRNET's networking infrastructure serves as the foundation for advanced computing applications, taking advantage of the processing/storage clusters that reside in different parts of the country and sophisticated middleware developed by our European collaborators. The resulting computing gridhttp://www.ggf.org/ is the subject of the HellasGrid http://www.hellasgrid.org/index.php?language=en national project, coordinated by GRNET. Additionally, GRNET is the coordinator of the SEE Federation for EGEEhttp://www.eu-egee.org/, the pan-European Grid infrastructure. Further on the international front, GRNET participates in the GRIDCChttp://www.gridcc.org/ EU project for the integration of scientific instruments and the Grid.e-Business and e-Learning
GRNET supports national and international actions which aim at the integration of e-Learning, Internet technologies and their use within the Greek business environment, with a focus on Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). In this framework, GRNET coordinates the e-Business Forumhttp://www.ebusinessforum.gr/index.php?language=en project, the project for the educational support of the GoOnlinehttp://www.go-online.gr/en/index.html programme and the EU-funded ELISAhttp://www.elisa-project.net/ project.International activities
GRNET participates actively in international projects funded by the European UnionEuropean Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
, including http://www.6diss.org/ 6DISS, EUMedConnecthttp://www.eumedconnect.net/, EUMedGrid, http://www.eranet-forsociety.net/ForSociety/index.html ForSociety, ACTIONhttp://www.action-leonardo.org/, and others, for the advance of digital technologies in Europe and the world.