In this collaborative environment, GÉANT provides a 100Gbps link to New York. Links provided by GÉANT’s North American partners ensure that there is abundant capacity and no single points of failure, enabling research and education traffic between the two regions to flow seamlessly.
The connections to North America are key in enabling research collaboration on intercontinental projects, and are particularly significant for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a number of the data-processing centres of which are located in North America.
Where projects and researchers need to exchange large amounts of data with their project counterparts in North America or have high-performance requirements, GÉANT Plus point-to-point circuits can be provisioned to the CANARIE, Internet2 and ESnet networks.
In Canada the research and education networking environment is provided for by CANARIE.
In the USA the key national organisations are ESnet, Internet2, Indiana University and the NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN), each of which caters for a subset of the US research and education community.
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The RedCLARA non-profit organisation manages the pan-Latin American RedCLARA research and education network. It currently interconnects 13 national research and education networks (NRENs) in the region and interconnects with the GÉANT network via a 5Gbps transatlantic link between Sao Paulo (Brazil) and London (UK).
RedCLARA leads the EC-funded MAGIC (Middleware for collaborative Applications and Global vIrtual Communities) project, in which GÉANT is a partner. Find out more.
Between 2003 and 2012 the RedCLARA network was partly funded by the European Commission through the ALICE (Latin America Interconnected with Europe) project and its successor, ALICE2. ALICE was managed by DANTE (now part of GÉANT). ALICE2 was the first regional project in which DANTE successfully handed the project management and financial responsibilities to a regional partner organisation.
In addition to the focus on connectivity, ALICE2 promoted the connection of more Latin American countries to the RedCLARA network as well as the creation and maintenance of research communities working on development-related themes (UN – Millennium Development Goals– MDG) put forward by the EC’s FP7 programme.
To learn more and to view the RedCLARA topology map, visit the RedCLARA website.
North America
Latin America
North Africa
West and Central Africa
Eastern and Southern Africa
Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Central Asia
Pacific Islands
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine
