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The physical infrastructure, which is underneath the Up2U ecosystem, consists of the pan-European GÉANT backbone network for research and education and the public and private cloud platforms. The GÉANT Peering service ensures the cost effective network traffic exchange between commercial clouds (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc.) and the R&E community. GÉANT also connects all NRENs and big research centres (CERN, ESA, EMBL, SKA, etc.) in Europe and their private cloud platforms. Via the NRENs and their regional and metropolitan network peers, about 15,000 primary and 10,000 secondary schools are connected to the same pan-European network infrastructure.
However, smaller impact is put on peering with commercial providers, as GÉANT backbone network obviously focuses on connections with the R&E networks , as given above. However, considering more than on peering with commercial providers. Considering the Always-on education concept promoted by Up2U and the necessary accessibility to of the ecosystem from any network and device, one could give advice on extending we should monitor users' types of Internet connections during the project lifetime. Depending on the future scale and the load generated by commercial ISP users, one could decide about required changes to GÉANT network peering policy to other kinds of network operatorsextend peering with commercial providers.
Appendix: Eduroam near schools - details
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