History

2024

HEAnet connects 1,000 Primary Schools with enterprise-level Broadband Connectivity.

2016

HEAnet started providing 10Gbit/s circuit for the I-Lofar project.

Ronan Byrne, HEAnet’s CEO and Kevin Jonkers , Director of Managed Services at Fox-IT

2023

HEAnet introduces new SOC & SIEM Services.

2022

Successful rollout of eduroam Wi-Fi in almost 500 new locations.

First HEAnet client connected at 100Gbps.

2021

Ronan Byrne appointed as CEO.

HEAnet and EduCampus were recognised as Best in Health & Wellbeing by InBusiness Recognition Awards 2021 run by Chambers Ireland.

2020

HEAnet procured 16,700 laptops for students and launched the eduroam Everywhere project in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

2017

John Boland, CEO retired.

Kerrie Power appointed as CEO.

2015

EduCampus Services set up as a subsidiary of HEAnet.

2012 – 2014

HEAnet managed the delivery of 100Mb/s connections to every post-primary school on behalf of the Irish government.

2012

Origins of the Brokerage Services Team, which now delivers in excess of €7m in savings for the sector annually.

2010

Edugate, our national federated access solution which today supports 40 million authentications annually was launched.

2008

Phased migration of IoTs from ITnet to the HEAnet network.

2005

First Schools connected under the Department of Education’s Schools Broadband Programme – targeting 1/2Mb to 2Mb.

2004

Connectivity up to 1 Gbps.

2001

Established TransAtlantic connectivity to USA and beyond. First HEAnet Conference.

1998

Connectivity up to 2 Mbps and our first wireless connection delivered to DIAS (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies).

1997

HEAnet becomes a founding member of INEX – The Internet Neutral Exchange with connections at 512 Kbps. HEAnet was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee. John Boland was appointed…

1993 – 1997

Managed by UCD Computing Services under contract to HEAnet.