What is Dante?

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DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various National Research and Education Networks in Europe and surrounding regions. It was established in 1993 as a limited liability company owned by a number of NRENs and government agencies, and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The shareholders are Consortium GARR (Italy) 14%, DFN (Germany) 14%, HEFCE (United Kingdom) 14%, RENATER (France) 14%, SURFnet (The Netherlands) 9%, SWITCH (Switzerland) 9%, NORDUnet (Scandinavia) 7%, CSIC (Spain) 5%, ARNES (Slovenia) 2%, CESNET (Czech Republic) 2%, FCCN (Portugal) 2%, HUNGARNET (Hungary) 2%, HEAnet (Ireland) 2%, Ariadnet (Greece) 2%, and RESTENA (Luxembourg) 2%.

DANTE currently operates the GÉANT2 pan-European backbone network, and previously operated the earlier generation EuropaNET, TEN-34, and TEN-155 networks. It also provides connections to Abilene (United States), ESnet (United States), CA*net4 (Canada), APAN (Asia-Pacific), RedCLARA (Latin America), ERNET (India), TENET (South Africa), and a number of Mediterranean Region countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey).

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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.
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DFN is a TLA that usually refers to Deutsches Forschungsnetz, the German national research and education network.

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Renater (Réseau national de télécommunications pour la technologie, l'enseignement et la recherche) is a French national public high speed computer network dedicated to connecting universities, schools (including colleges, high schools, engineer and business schools, etc.
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SURFnet is the national research and educational network (NREN) of the Netherlands.
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SWITCH is the manager of the .ch and .li country-code top-level domains for Switzerland and Liechtenstein, respectively. It also manages the educational networks among Swiss universities, and the links to other (non Swiss) university networks.
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NORDUnet is an international collaboration between the Nordic national computer networks for research and education. The members of NORDUnet are:
  • SUNET of Sweden
  • UNINETT of Norway
  • FUNET of Finland
  • Forskningsnettet of Denmark
  • RHnet of Iceland

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The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spanish for Spanish National Research Council is the largest public research organisation in Spain.
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ARNES stands for Academic and Research Network of Slovenia. Its main task is development, operation and management of the communication and information network for education and research, and was established as an independent public institution in 1992.
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CESNET

association
Founded 1996
Headquarters Prague, Czech Republic

Key people Jan Gruntorád, CEO
Industry research
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CESNET is Czech Republic's National Research and Education Network (NREN) operator.
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HEAnet (Ireland's National Education & Research Network), provides high-speed Internet access to academic institutions in Ireland direct to European and USA networks. The network is funded by the Higher Education Authority and is a WAN-based network.
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RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche
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GÉANT is the main European multi-gigabit computer network for research and education purposes. GÉANT link speeds range from 155 Mbit/s on the slowest spur links to 10 Gbit/s in the core optical fiber network.
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Abilene Network is the U.S. high-performance backbone network created by the Internet2 community.

One of the project's aims was to achieve 100 megabit connectivity between every node by the end of 2006.
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CANARIE, the Canadian Advanced Network and Research for Industry and Education, is a Canadian government supported non-profit corporation, founded in 1993, which maintains a set of leased wide area network links and also develops and deploys advanced network applications and
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Apan, Hidalgo
Coordinates:
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 - City 346.9 km  (0 sq mi)
Elevation 2480 m (0 ft)
Population (2000)
 - City 39,513
Time zone CST (UTC-6)
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CLARA (Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas in Spanish or Cooperação Latino-Americana de Redes Avançadas in Portuguese - literally
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A tenet is any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine which a person or group believes or maintains, such as the tenets of Plato or of UNESCO.

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