This is the page of the SIG-ISM Working Group 1, which is working on creating an Inventory for European NREN and other R&E community Security Officers.
The group is lead by Linda Cornwall <Linda.Cornwall@stfc.ac.uk> (STFC).
If you would like to join this working group or subscribe to the mailing list, please contact Sigita Jurkynaitė <sigita.jurkynaite@geant.org> (GÉANT).
| Name | Short Description | Link to public wiki | Link to NREN table |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeiC | DeIC - Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation was established in 2012, with the purpose to support Denmark as an e-Science nation through delivery of e-infrastructures (computing, storage and network) to research and researchbased teaching. | https://www.deic.dk/en | DeiC Inventory Entry |
| SURFnet | SURF is the collaborative ICT organisation for Dutch education and research. SURF offers students, lecturers and scientists in the Netherlands access to the best possible internet and ICT facilities. SURFnet is a operating company form SURF, it operates the Dutch NREN and de federated identity management system. | https://www.surf.nl | SURFnet Inventory Entry |
| Jisc | Jisc provides digital solutions for UK education and research. Jisc operates the UK's NREN Janet. | https://www.jisc.ac.uk/ | Jisc Inventory Entry |
| EGI | EGI is a distributed multinational project which delivers advanced computing services to support scientists, multinational projects and research infrastructure. | https://www.egi.eu/ | EGI Inventory Entry |
| RHnet | RHnet is a limited company, founded with the sole aim of enhancing the level of communication within the Icelandic university and research community, and serve as its gateway to international networks. Its objective is to link together Icelandic universities and research institutions by means of an high capacity computer network, and supply services in the field of computer communications, both domestically and internationally. | http://www.rhnet.is/english/ | RHnet Inventory Entry |
| SWITCH | SWITCH is operating the Swiss NREN and is providing identity and specific IT services to the education & research community in Switzerland. In addition we are operating the registry for .ch and .li and are providing security services to education & research, registry and a group of Swiss banks. | ||
| IUCC | IUCC was established as the Israel’s NREN in 1984 by Israel’s research universities and operates as a non-profit organization. Among the services, IUCC delivers network security services based on the national internet security testbed and collaboration with startup and major network securty vendors, weekly security reports and also operates the National CREATE lab with the Israeli National Cyber Bureau in their partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s. | https://www.iucc.ac.il | IUCC inventory Entry |
| SA NREN | The roles and responsibilities of the de facto South African NREN (SA NREN) are distributed between the South African National Research Network (SANReN) Competency Area (CA) at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET). The SANReN CA is responsible for the design, acquisition and roll-out of national and international capacity for the SA NREN, as well as the development and incubation of advanced services. It forms part of a comprehensive South African government approach to cyberinfrastructure, geared at ensuring the successful participation of South African researchers in the global knowledge production endeavour. TENET's main purpose is to secure, for the benefit of South African universities and associated research and support institutions, Internet and Information Technology services. TENET is a service organisation and is committed to service excellence and to services that are strongly aligned and consistent with the organisational requirements of the user community. TENET operates the SANReN Network under the terms of a Collaboration Agreement with the CSIR. | SA NREN (SANReN/TENET) Inventory Entry | |
| ACOnet | ACOnet is the acronym for "Austrian Academic Computer Network" and represents the network for science, research and education (NREN) in Austria. It is operated by the Vienna University Computer Center, in co-operation with other Austrian Universities, since 1992. ACOnet provides a powerful and resilient backbone network infrastructure, mainly based on Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology. It's major points of presence are co-located at Universities in Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg and Wien (Vienna). ACOnet supplies its customers with multi-gigabit Internet access with a special focus on good national and regional connectivity through public and private peerings (Vienna Internet eXchange) and excellent connectivity to the European and global science, research and education community via GÉANT. Most of all, ACOnet is a scientific network that strives to provide support for public institutions in the fields of research, education and culture. Data exchange among participants as well as with participants of scientific networks in other countries is provided free of charge, limited only by the physical bandwidth of the participant's respective connection. Equally, data upload to commercial networks is provided at no cost. Connection fees correspond solely to the prospective participant's requirements of download from commercial networks. At the time of writing, ACOnet connects more than 200 participants from all over Austria, such as univiersities and other institutions of higher education, students' dormitories, regional school networks, libraries and museums, hospitals, federal ministries and municipal magistrates, etc. | http://www.aco.net | ACOnet Inventory Entry |
| CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. | CSC is a Finnish center of expertise in ICT that provides ICT expert services at an internationally high level of quality for research, education, culture, public administration and enterprises, to help them thrive and benefit society at large. We harness our expertise, networks and IT to boost our customers' success. We work closely with our customers on a non-profit basis. The purpose of our operations is to benefit our customers. Customers receive solutions tailored precisely to their needs (not too large, not too small). Our own expertise evolves together with that of our customers, which is what a real partnership is all about. We proactively seek out innovations and new services through international cooperation to benefit our customers. Our mandate is to keep Finland at the cutting edge. Funet (Finnish University and Research Network) is a high-speed data communications network serving the Finnish research community. It connects about 80 research organizations and about 370 000 users. CSC maintains and develops the Funet network. | https://www.csc.fi/ | CSC Inventory Entry |
| UNINETT AS | UNINETT AS is the parent company of the UNINETT Group, and develops and operates the Norwegian national research and education network. This is a high-capacity computer network interconnecting about 200 Norwegian educational and research institutions and more than 300 000 users, as well as giving them access to international research networks. UNINETT is owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. We are a neutral party, and the business is run non-profit. | https://www.uninett.no/ | UNINETT Inventory Entry |
| RNP | RNP provides to its clients a modern and high-performance network service, allied with communication services and distance collaboration applications portfolio that supports its education and research activities. It is present in all states, through 27 Points of Presence, which form the backbone of the national academic network, the Ipê network. It is an optic network infrastructure, to which 1.237 campuses and units in the capital cities and in the states’ countryside are connected and through which they exchange a large volume of data and information in a worldwide level. Such organizations that make up RNP are the main higher education institutions and producers of knowledge and innovation in Brazil, encompassing mostly universities, institutes and research units, at a federal and state level, teaching hospitals and museums. | RNP Inventory Entry | |
| Example | This is a draft example/template Inventory table |