KPNQwest, the leading pan-European data communications and hosting company, said it has signed a pact with DANTE, which is responsible for managing GEANT, the world's largest academic and research network.
Terms of the pact call for KPNQwest to provide two high-capacity transatlantic connections to support its data-intensive academic and scientific research requirements. Specifically, KPNQwest will provide two 2.5 Gbps wavelengths between Frankfurt, London and New York linking GEANT and three top North American research networks: ESnet, CANARIE and ABILENE (Internet2).
Through the interconnections, users of research networks on both sides of the Atlantic will benefit from a robust and scalable service to support their research and development in a diverse range of academic disciplines in energy and science, officials said.
The research community will see a further benefit as a result of the recent entry into full service of the pan-European GEANT network. The GEANT topology includes 10 Gbps wavelengths between eight European countries and lower capacity circuits which extend its geographic reach to the whole of Western and Central Europe.
European and US researchers will use the latest bandwidth-intensive applications, such as tele-immersion and grid systems, to collaborate on joint initiatives. They will access and share information from multiple locations as though they were in the same laboratory or classroom.
DANTE, the coordinating partner for GEANT, is a not-for-profit company set up to provide advanced international data network services for the European research community in conjunction with the NRENs. The GEANT partners are 25 European National and Regional Research and Education Network (NREN) organizations, providing services to 31 countries across Europe.
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