GÉANT Press Releases

Please follow the links below to view press releases issued about GÉANT since the project began.

4 October 2004

[pdf] EVN Press Release: Astronomers Demonstrate a Global Internet Telescope (1658 Kb)

European and US radio astronomers have demonstrated a new way of observing the Universe – through the Internet!

2 September 2004

[pdf] European Commission Press Release: Commission grants Euro 93 million to upgrade European Research and Education Internet (GÉANT) (18 Kb)

A contract to upgrade Europe’s world-leading GÉANT communications network for research and education has been signed by the European Commission in Brussels...

2 April 2004

[pdf] CESNET Press Release: CESNET2: 2.5 Gbps to Pan-European GÉANT Network (64 Kb)

On the 1st of this April, the CESNET association more than doubled the capacity of the connection of the national research and education network CESNET2 to the Pan-European gigabit network GÉANT...

31 March 2004

[pdf] EGEE Press Release: European Grid Computing Changes Gear (40 Kb)

European plans for Grid technology change gear this week, as the pioneering European DataGrid (EDG) project comes to a successful end and a new project, the Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe (EGEE) project, begins....

27 January 2004

[pdf] The Sharpest View in the Universe - Live at Long Last! (43 Kb)

(issued jointly with JIVE) 27th Jan 2004

15 January 2004

[pdf] IPv6 research networks pioneer global provision of next generation data networks (32 Kb)

(issued by DANTE) 15th Jan 2004

9 January 2004

[pdf] European Research Network extended to the Balkans with EU Support (20 Kb)

(issued by the European Commission) 9th January 2004

23 December 2003

[pdf] Inauguration of the South Eastern European Research and Education Networking Infrastructure (117 Kb)

(issued by SEEREN) 23 December 2003