The Grant Agreement for Polar Connect Step 2 (24-EU-DIG-PC2) has been signed, marking another major milestone in developing Polar Connect – a resilient Arctic...
Tag - Intercontinental Connectivity
Recently, the ITER project and the Broader Approach’s QST network teams carried out a series of high-speed data transfer tests between the ITER Marseille Data...
Tirana, 13 October 2025 At the EU-Western Balkans Investment Forum taking place in Tirana this week, the European Commission, GÉANT, and 4iG Group signed a...
25% of the traffic across the GÉANT network backbone either originates from or is destined for locations outside of Europe, supporting global data-intensive...
Brussels, 10 October 2025. At the Global Gateway Forum in Brussels today, the European Commission and key partners from Africa, India, and the Mediterranean...
The strategic potential of the Blue-Raman submarine cable initiative was highlighted on 20 June 2025 at the high-level event ‘The Mattei Plan for Africa and...
GÉANT and digital infrastructure provider EXA Infrastructure are excited to announce the signature of an historical long-term agreement to deliver a major...
Just as a living organism relies on interconnected systems to function, the global fabric of research and education depends on a web of networks...
The research and education network organisations of the Netherlands, the Nordic countries and Canada have signed an agreement to upgrade the existing...
Article originally published on the website of Indiana University | Short version – Full version The Networks for European, American, African, and Arctic...
Quantum computing offers huge opportunities to the research and education (R&E) community as well as to commercial enterprise. Quantum computers have the...
Today, the interconnected fabric of Research and Education Networks all over the world and their collaboration enables high-speed transfers of scientific data...
The global connectivity landscape is undergoing significant transformations and becoming increasingly intricate [see the article “Five Hundred and Fifty...
The sight of a communication line unspooling from the stern of a large ship, drifting down to settle on a dark seabed that we know little about, surrounded by...
400 Gbps Spectrum-based Circuits Deployed on New Subsea Cable System to Advance Global Scientific Collaboration and Innovation WASHINGTON, D.C., March 14, 2024...
Nordic NRENs and NORDUnet: By 2030 or soon thereafter, a resilient submarine cable system across the Arctic region towards East Asia must be in place. A route...
We are proud to announce the signature at the recently held Global Gateway Forum 2023 of a EUR 40 million investment grant provided by the European Commission...
The Global Network Advancement Group (GNA-G) is a community of network professionals from national and regional research and education network organisations...
On 7 June 2023, representatives of GÉANT – the pan-European Research and Education Network – and of CSTNET – the China Science and Technology Network –...
GÉANT is delighted to announce that the EC-Funded GN5-IC1 project – delivering the first phase of GÉANT’s new Intercontinental Connectivity investment...


















