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 are introduced before deployment within the Internet.[citation needed] Two examples of these protocols are IPv6 and IP multicast.

[edit] List of NRENs

  • Internet2 (UCAID) - de facto NREN of the United States of America
  • CANARIE (CA*Net) - Canadian NREN
  • APAN - Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
    • AARNet - Australian NREN
    • BAERIN - Bangladeshi NREN
    • CSTNET - Chinese NREN
    • ERNET - Indian NREN
    • HARNET - Hong Kong NREN
    • KAREN (REANNZ) - New Zealand NREN
    • PERN - Pakistani NREN
    • SINET - Japanese NREN
    • MYREN - Malaysian NREN
    • SingAREN - Singaporean NREN
    • TWAREN - Taiwanese NREN
    • Uninet - Thai NREN
    • PREGINET - Philippine NREN
  • CLARA - Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (Association of Latin American NRENs) that runs RedCLARA backbone network
    • CEDIA - Ecuadorian NREN
    • CR2Net - Costa Rican NREN
    • CUDI - Mexican NREN
    • RAAP - Peruvian NREN
    • RAICES - El Salvadorean NREN
    • RAGIE - Guatemalan NREN
    • RAU - Uruguayan NREN
    • REACCIUN - Venezuelan NREN
    • RedCyT - Panamian NREN
    • RENATE - Columbian NREN
    • RENIA - Nicaraguan NREN
    • RETINA - Argentinian NREN
    • REUNA - Chilean NREN
    • RNP - Brazilian NREN
    • UNITEC - Honduran NREN
  • KENET - Kenyan NREN
  • MALICO/MAREN - Malawian NREN
  • TENET - South African NREN
  • TERENA - Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (Association of European NRENs)
  • DANTE - runs GÉANT2 backbone network on behalf of European NRENs
    • ACOnet - Austrian NREN
    • AMRES - Serbian NREN
    • ARNES - Slovenian NREN
    • Belnet - Belgian NREN
    • CARNet - Croatian NREN
    • CESNET - Czech NREN
    • CYNET - Cypriot NREN
    • DFN - German NREN
    • EENet - Estonian NREN
    • FCCN - Portuguese NREN
    • Consortium GARR - Italian NREN
    • GRNET - Greek NREN
    • HEAnet - Irish NREN
    • HUNGARNET - Hungarian NREN
    • IUCC - Israeli NREN
    • JANET (JANET(UK)) - United Kingdom NREN
    • SigmaNet - Latvian NREN
    • LITNET - Lithuanian NREN
    • MARNET - Macedonian NREN
    • NORDUnet - Nordic backbone network
      • FUNET - Finnish NREN
      • RHnet - Icelandic NREN
      • SUNET - Swedish NREN
      • UNI-C - Danish NREN
      • UNINETT - Norwegian NREN
    • PIONIER (PCSS) - Polish NREN
    • RedIRIS - Spanish NREN
    • RENATER - French NREN
    • RESTENA - Luxembourg NREN
    • RNC / RoEduNet - Romanian NRENs
    • SANET - Slovakian NREN
    • SURFnet - Dutch NREN
    • SWITCH - Swiss NREN
    • ULAKBIM - Turkish NREN
    • University of Malta CSC - Maltese NREN

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