Why Does GÉANT Exist?

Europe is home to the largest and most diverse group of academic and scientific researchers in the world. Collectively they produce terabytes of important data every day. This data is crucial to academic research, and often needs to be shared between researchers in different countries.

GÉANT reaches over 3,000 research and education institutions in over 30 countries through 28 national and regional research and education networks. It provides the highest capacity and offers the greatest geographic coverage of any network of its kind in the world. It allows more data to be stored, transmitted and analysed than ever before. With GÉANT, researchers can make use of advanced network applications and perform cutting-edge projects.

Without high-speed research networks like GÉANT, many research projects at the forefront of their fields would simply not be possible.