Project description
Boosting the backbone performance of the GÉANT network
GÉANT is the pan-European data network for the research and education community. This world-class, high-speed backbone provides seamless and secure connectivity with 42 national research and education networks, reaching over 50 million users in 10 000 institutions across Europe and more than 100 countries worldwide through links with other regions. The EU-funded GN4-3N project aims to increase the footprint of the backbone network and improve its capacity, resilience and flexibility. The ultimate goal is to offer 100 Gbps network access to a greater number of GÉANT partners and significantly diminish the digital divide.
Objective
"The GN4 Phase 3 Network (GN4-3N) proposal for part b of the third Specific Grant Agreement (SGA3(b) is made in response to the H2020-SGA-INFRA-GEANT-2018 (Topic [b] Research and Education Networking) call, received 17 October 2018, under the 68-month Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) established between the GÉANT Consortium and the European Commission in April 2015. It is proposed to last 48 months to implement, as the call requests, a very ambitious restructuring of the backbone network operated by GÉANT in order to provide equal access to clouds and other e-infrastructure services in the European research area and beyond. It will improve the overall resilience and reliability of the GÉANT network significantly and offer a base for future improvements in access, transmission speeds and capacity wherever needed.
The outcome of GN4-3N project will offer uniform network access and choice of services to many more partners, eliminating the ""digital divide"" wherever technically and economically feasible.
This project proposal is based on technical and economic studies carried out during 2017-2018 in the GN4-2 project which have given the Consortium clarity on the resourcing, financial and effort, needed to realise the huge ambition of this undertaking. It exclusively covers the engineering, procurement, acquisition and installation of the new backbone network. The day-to-day network operations as the elements of it is commissioned is the responsibility of the teams described in accompanying the GN4-3 project.
The GN4-3 and GN4-3N proposals are intimately connected through common teams and the technical, management and procurement expertise built-up over previous GN projects. This is what makes this ambitious proposal realistic. GN4-3N and GN4-3 have simply had to be proposed as distinct projects, due to the different funding model (with no depreciation) to be used in GN4-3N project."
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- H2020-EU.1.4. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Research Infrastructures Main Programme
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
1102 BR Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Participants (39)
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1010 Wien
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11000 Beograd
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1000 Ljubljana
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0014 Yerevan
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220012 Minsk
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Sofia
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10000 Zagreb
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160 00 Praha 6
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1678 Nicosia
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10178 Berlin
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1249 074 Lisboa
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00185 Roma
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0108 Tbilisi
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11523 Athina
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D01 Dublin
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12618 Tallinn
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69978 Tel Aviv
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OX11 0SG Didcot
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LT-44029 Kaunas
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1000 Skopje
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81000 Podgorica
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1134 Budapest
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2770 Kastrup
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61 704 Poznan
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28020 Madrid
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2004 CHISINAU
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75013 Paris
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4365 Esch-Sur-Alzette
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010362 Bucuresti
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811 07 Bratislava
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3511 EP Utrecht
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3008 Bern
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06100 Ankara
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2080 MSIDA
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03056 Kyiv
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1459 Riga
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1001 Tirana
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1141 Baku
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