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The partnership between AARNet and Southern Cross Cable Networks was celebrated at the American College Football Championships in Sydney.
The AARNet 2020 Annual Report is now online.
An overview of who we are and what we do, and a lot of information about our operational and engagement activities during 2018.
Extensive backup links ensure network resilience and boost connectivity between Asia and Europe for research and education.
AAARNet launches live high-bandwidth services delivering more than one Terabit per second for research and education on the AARNet spectrum of the new Indigo subsea cable system connecting Sydney, Perth and Singapore.
Moving big science data and international science collaborations were common strands in the network development talks given by the AARNet team at the eResearch Australasia 2017.
Launched nearly 20 years ago, and in orbit around Saturn since 2004, Cassini is now on its final approach into the planet for a fiery sign-off.
Inside the AARNet 2019 Annual Report you'll find an overview of who we are and what we do, along with information about our operational and engagement achievements and activities during 2019.
The Maintain Workstream focuses on network overview and management tools, components of the network and a data centre tour with the AARNet Operations Team.
Climate modelling research has always been an international collaborative effort, relying upon high capacity research networks for the transfer of the massive amounts of experimental data.
AARNet, James Cook University and Townsville City Council have announced a partnership to share fibre optic cables throughout the city.
More and more Australian schools are moving increasing amounts of backup & production data, services and platforms to private and public cloud solutions. If you are one of these schools, network diversity should be part of your plan in the event of a service interruption.
The accolade recognises Hancock’s significant service to education and on-line research networks, and to Australia-USA relations.
Scientists are using a testbed of optical fibre provided by AARNet to explore new ways to measure the Earth’s tremors more accurately.
Network engineers working on advanced academic and research networks around the world gathered in Sydney, Australia this week for the annual international GLIF (Global Lambda Integrated Facility) Workshop.
Participants from 16 countries came together to hear about the recent developments in Australia and the Pacific region that are supporting high-bandwidth research applications such the Square Kilometre Array, and to discuss how global R&E networks should evolve over the next 5 years.
Australia's national research and education network is carrier-grade and engineered with low latency, low contention and high capacity so there is no congestion.
The sudden and mass movement to working and learning from home has resulted in some remarkable changes to the way data flows across the AARNet network.
The consortium – comprising Internet2 and International Networks at Indiana University (IN@IU) in the United States, Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet), and the Arterial Research and Educational Network in the Asia Pacific (ARENA-PAC) – has acquired a 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) circuit between Guam and Singapore through a 15-year agreement.