The Works of DANTE - Issue 3

TEIN2 Tender News

Following a connectivity tender announcement in January, DANTE is now evaluating the encouraging responses. Over 30 telecoms providers expressed formal interest in providing connectivity for the TEIN2 network in southeast Asia.

An additional tender call for network operations centre (NOC) services was also made and results from this are currently being analysed.

DANTE is the co-ordinating partner in the TEIN2 project, which will create a regional research network able to connect the following partners to one another and to Europe: Brunei, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Direct connectivity to the pan-European GÉANT2 network will allow unprecedented Asian-European research collaboration. The project is jointly funded by the European Union and the project partners, and will run until the end of 2007. European NREN partners in the project are RENATER (France), SURFnet (the Netherlands) and UKERNA (United Kingdom). The TEIN2 network will be operational from late 2005.