National research and education network
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
- 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
- TUREN - Tunisian NREN
- MARWAN - Moroccan NREN
- ENREN - Egyptian NREN
- ARN - Algerian NREN
- SudREN - Sudanese NREN
West and Central Africa
- WACREN - West and Central African Research and Education Network
- GARNET - Ghanaian NREN
- MaliREN - Mali NREN
- Niger-REN - Nigerien NREN
- RITER - Côte d'Ivoire NREN
- SnRER - Senegalese NREN
- NgREN - Nigerian NREN
Asia Pacific
- APAN - Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
- AARNet - Australian NREN
- AfgREN - Afghanistan 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
- CamREN- Cambodia NREN
- TEIN - Trans Eurasia Information Network
North America
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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)
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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
- RedCLARA - 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
- C@ribNET - Caribbean NREN
- TTRENT - Trinidad and Tobago NREN
- JREN - Jamaica NREN
- RADEI - NREN of the Dominican Republic
Europe
- GÉANT - Develops and maintains the GÉANT backbone network on behalf of European NRENs. Formerly DANTE and TERENA.
- CEENet - Central and Eastern European Research Networking Association [1]
- Eumedconnect - South Mediterranean Backbone
- ASNET-AM - Armenian NREN
- ACOnet - Austrian NREN
- AzScienceNet Azerbaijan 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
- GRENA - Georgian NREN
- GRNET - Greek NREN
- NIIF/HUNGARNET - Hungarian NREN
- HEAnet - Irish NREN
- GARR - Italian NREN
- KazRENA - Kazakhstan NREN
- SigmaNet - Latvian NREN
- LITNET - Lithuanian NREN
- RESTENA - Luxembourg NREN
- MARNET - Macedonian NREN
- UoM-CSC - Maltese NREN
- RENAM - Moldovian NREN
- MREN - Montenegro NREN
- PIONIER (PSNC) - 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
- AfgREN - Afghanistan NREN
Middle East
- Eumedconnect - Mediterranean/North African Backbone
- ANKABUT UAE NREN
- OMREN Omani NREN
- IUCC - Israeli NREN
- JUnet Jordanian NREN
- PALNREN Palestinian NREN
- Lebanon
- Birzeit Uni/AlQuds Palestinian Authority
- Qartar FN - Qartarian NREN
- HIAST Syrian NREN
Central Asia
- 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
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
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