CESNET
| Czech Education and Scientific NETwork | |
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| Abbreviation | CESNET |
| Motto | e-infrastructure for science, research and education |
| Formation | 1996 |
| Legal status | Association |
| Headquarters | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Region served | Czech Republic |
| CEO | Jan Gruntorád |
| Website | www.cesnet.cz?lang=en |
CESNET is Czech Republic's National Research and Education Network (NREN) operator. It was founded in 1996 by universities and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It is a successor of activity by Czech Technical University, started as FESNET in 1992.
CESNET has research activities from hybrid networking, programmable hardware, metacomputing to middleware and video transmissions.
From 1992 to 1999 CESNET supported a commercial network , but this activity was sold in early 1999 and from that time CESNET was fully focused on academic networking.
Goals
CESNET's main goals are:
- operation and development of the Czech NREN
- research and development of advanced network technologies and applications
- broadening of the public knowledge about the advanced networking topics
Partnerships
CESNET participates in corresponding international projects. The most important international relationships of the CESNET association are:
- shareholder of the DANTE network
- member of TERENA
- Internet2 international partner
- participant of the European GN2/GÉANT2 project (and former GÉANT, QUANTUM/TEN-155, TEN-34 projects)
- GLIF participant
Backbone
CESNET has a fiber optic backbone ring based on DWDM technology that connects Prague, Brno, Olomouc and Hradec Králové with bandwidth of up to 32 × 10 Gbit/s.
External connections
As of June 2007, CESNET had connections to:
- ACONET – 10 Gbit/s
- GÉANT2 – 10 Gbit/s
- SANET2 – 10 Gbit/s
- NIX.CZ – 2 × 10 Gbit/s
- PIONIER – 10 Gbit/s
- Full transit via TeliaSonera – 1800 Mbit/s (via dual STM-16 link)