HEAnet is very proud to congratulate Anna Wilson, one of our project managers, who is the worthy recipient of this year's GÉANT Community Award - recognising how one individual's dedication to work can transform a community.

25 years ago this month, HEAnet connected to Europe via a single 64Kbit/s circuit - today we connect to GÉANT via two 30Gbit/s circuits. 

Assuming similar increases over the next 25 years we could be talking about 90,000Gbit/s (i.e. 90Tbit/s (90 Terabit/s)) in 2044:


1  EuropaNET via Ebone                 
2  JANET
3  DANTE
4  GÉANT is the pan-European research and education network that interconnects all of Europe's National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), including HEAnet.

Today, approximately 10% of HEAnet's outbound and 18% of HEAnet's inbound traffic transits our GÉANT links.  
 
Without these circuits, projects such as the I-Lofar telescope in Birr would not be possible. The I-Lofar telescope in Birr sends 3Gbit/s of traffic constantly over this network to the Astron data centre in the Netherlands where it is processed with similar data streams from other telescopes around Europe. 
 
HEAnet's other external connections are:  

• two resilient 100Gbit/s circuits to the INEX (Irish Neutral Exchange) where HEAnet peers with over 100 local Internet and Cloud providers  
• 20Gbit/s circuits to Century Link, 20Gbit/s to GTT, 10Gbit/s to Microsoft, and  
• a 1Gbit/s peering with INEX members in Cork 

Don't miss our next Newsletter (Issue 4 Aug 2019) which will feature a follow-up article about the next 15 years...