National research and education network

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.

It is usually distinguished by support for a high-speed backbone network, often offering dedicated channels for individual research projects.

In recent years NRENs have developed many 'above the net' services.

List of NRENs by geographic area

East and Southern Africa

North Africa
  • ASREN - Arab States Research and Education Network
  • TUREN - Tunisian NREN
  • MARWAN - Moroccan NREN
  • ENREN - Egyptian NREN
  • ARN (Algeria) - Algerian NREN
  • SudREN - Sudanese NREN
  • SomaliREN - Somali NREN

West and Central Africa

Asia Pacific
  • APAN - Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
  • AARNet - Australian NREN
  • AfgREN - Afghanistan NREN
  • BDREN - Bangladeshi NREN
  • CSTNET - China Science and Technology Network
  • CERNET - China Education and Research Network
  • ERNET - Indian NREN
  • HARNET - Hong Kong NREN
  • KOREN - Korean NREN
  • KREONET- Korean NREN
  • IDREN - Indonesian NREN
  • LEARN - Sri Lankan NREN
  • SINET - Japanese NREN
  • MYREN - Malaysian NREN
  • NKN - Indian NREN
  • NREN - Nepal NREN
  • NREN - Islamic Republic of Iran NREN
  • REANNZ - New Zealand NREN
  • PERN - Pakistani NREN
  • PREGINET - Philippine NREN
  • SingAREN - Singaporean NREN
  • TWAREN - Taiwanese NREN
  • UniNet - Thai NREN
  • VinaRen - Vietnamese NREN
  • CamREN- Cambodia NREN
  • TEIN - Trans Eurasia Information Network

North America
  • United States – although advocated since the 1980s,[1] the U.S. does not have one single NREN.
NameType
Internet2national
National LambdaRailnational [closed]
vBNSnational [closed]
Edge state (New Jersey)
ESnetnational
NERENregional (New England)
CENICstate (California)
CENstate (Connecticut)
NERENregional (Midwest|-
Illinois Century Networkstate (Illinois)
KanRENstate (Kansas)
LEARNstate (Texas) [2]
Merit Networkstate (Michigan)
NEROstate (Oregon)
NCRENstate (North Carolina)
NYSERNetstate (New York)
OARnetstate (Ohio)
OneNetstate (Oklahoma)
OSHEANstate (Rhode Island)
PennRENstate (Pennsylvania)
THEnetstate (Texas) [3]
UENstate (Utah)
WVNETstate (West Virginia)
  • Canada
NameType
CANARIEnational
ACORN-NLprovincial (Newfoundland and Labrador)
ACORN-NSprovincial (Nova Scotia)
BCNETprovincial (British Columbia)
Cyberaprovincial (Alberta)
GTAnetprovincial (Ontario)
ECNprovincial (New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island)
MRnetprovincial (Manitoba) [4]
ORIONprovincial (Ontario)
RISQprovincial (Quebec)
SRNetprovincial (Saskatchewan)

Latin America
High-speed Fibre Optic Data Link to ALMA and REUNA.[5]
  • RedCLARA - Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (Association of Latin American NRENs)
  • Innova-Red - Argentinian NREN
  • ADSIB - Bolivian NREN
  • RNP - Brazilian NREN
  • REUNA - Chilean NREN
  • RENATA - Colombian NREN
  • RedCONARE - Costa Rican NREN
  • CEDIA - Ecuadorian NREN
  • RAICES - El Salvadoran NREN
  • RAGIE - Guatemalan NREN
  • Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC) - Honduran NREN
  • CUDI - Mexican NREN
  • RENIA - Nicaraguan NREN
  • RedCyT - Panamanian NREN
  • Arandu - Paraguayan NREN
  • RAAP - Peruvian NREN
  • RAU - Uruguayan NREN
  • REACCIUN CNTI?- Venezuelan NREN

Caribbean
  • C@ribNET - Caribbean NREN
  • TTRENT - Trinidad and Tobago NREN
  • JREN - Jamaica NREN
  • RADEI - NREN of the Dominican Republic

Europe

Nordic countries

Middle East
  • Maeen Saudi Arabia NREN
  • Eumedconnect - Mediterranean/North African Backbone
  • ANKABUT UAE NREN
  • OMREN Omani NREN
  • IUCC - Israeli NREN
  • JUnet Jordanian NREN
  • IRAN SHOA Iranian NREN
  • PALNREN Palestinian NREN
  • Lebanon
  • Birzeit Uni/AlQuds Palestinian Authority
  • QNREN - Qatar NREN
  • HIAST Syrian NREN

Central Asia
  • RUNNet - Russian University Network, Russian NREN
  • ASNET-AM - Armenian
  • AzScienceNet Azerbaijan NREN
  • GRENA - Georgian NREN
  • KazRENA - Kazakhstan NREN
  • KRENA - Kyrgyzian NREN
  • TuRENA - Turkmenistan NREN
  • UZSCINET - Uzbekistan NREN

See also

References
  1. National Research Council (U.S.). National Research Network Review Committee, Leonard Kleinrock; et al. (1988). Toward a National Research Network. National Academies. ISBN 9780309581257.
  2. "LEARN: Lonestar Education and Research Network". Tx-learn.org. 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  3. https://www.the.net/
  4. "MRnet Manitoba Research Network - Enhancing Education and Research Through Advanced High Speed Optical Networks". Mrnet.mb.ca. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  5. "New High-speed Fibre Optic Data Link to ALMA". www.eso.org. European Southern Observatory. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  6. "CEENet - Central and Eastern European Networking Associations". 2012-04-03. Archived from the original on 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
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