HEAnet has welcomed its latest client, The Irish Vocational Education Association (IVEA)

The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte, T.D., has reaffirmed his objective to roll out high speed broadband to all second level schools in Ireland on a phased basis, following a successful pilot programme which has delivered 100mgbs broadband to 78 second level schools.

TF-NOC has launched a survey about the operational experiences and software tools used for the main functions of Network Operation Centres (NOC), including those related to monitoring, problem-solving, performance, change management, ticketing, reporting and communication. The survey will also collect basic information about NOC internal structures, organisational processes and potential collaborative efforts.

Earlier this year, HEAnet commissioned Ericsson to help conduct a review of HEAnet's Mobility Strategy.  This exercise is now complete.

HEAnet announces its 11th National Conference, "Service Innovation and Collaboration for Challenging Times". The Conference is returning to the Lyrath Estate Hotel, Kilkenny and will take place on 09 - 11 November 2011. Call for Papers

Further to our news item last month, a number of very high profile websites will enable IPv6 for the duration of June 8th. Most end users are unlikely to be affected negatively, but there are users that have misconfigured setups that will be triggered by this change.

Researchers benefit from early compliance by HEAnet

Dublin, Ireland, 03 June 2011 – Research networks across Europe, including HEAnet in Ireland have announced that they have successfully deployed the IPv6 protocol, the next generation of internet addressing technology. Working with network co-ordination centre Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE), research networks have achieved IPv6 compliance and will be taking a leading part in next week’s World IPv6 Day (8 June 2011), which tests IPv6 compatibility.

HEAnet, Juniper Networks and ADVA Optical Networking have successfully demonstrated the automated setup of optical circuits between Juniper Networks routers via an ADVA Optical Networking Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical network, using a common signalling protocol.

World IPv6 Day is an initiative by Google, Facebook and other popular websites, taking place on Wednesday June 8th, 2011: http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day

On that day, these sites and many others will enable IPv6 on their websites, for a 24 hour period.

If you are interested in participating by enabling IPv6 on your website, HEAnet is here to help you...

The tenth annual TERENA Compendium of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Europe has been released. The 2010 edition includes data from more than 50 organisations across Europe and surrounding regions.