Jul, 2001 : Colt and Dante Create World's Largest Research Network
📅 - As part of a project designed to allow researchers across Europe to work faster and more efficiently, European telecommunications provider Colt Telecom Group (colt-telecom.com) signed a multi-million Euro, multi-year deal with research association Dante, creating one of the world's most powerful research networks.
Dante operates a high-powered research Internet, connecting university research networks in 25 European countries, in an effort to deliver a platform that will allow researchers to share information, run high-capacity programs across multiple sites and co-operate on joint research in a range of areas, including telecommunications.
The network, called Geant, is designed to facilitate research in topics including weather forecasting, high-energy physics and telecommunications networking. It will allow researchers located across Europe to co-operate as though they were in the same laboratory, as a result of the increase in power and capacity of the network.
In order to fill this requirement, Dante has purchased a number of 10 and 2.5 Gigabit wavelength services from Colt, which will be incorporated into a new backbone network connecting 32 European countries. According to Dante, the network will connect the largest number of researchers in the world.
Dai Davies, DANTE General Manager stated "this new infrastructure will allow us to offer speeds of transmission previously impossible on the old network. As well as increasing the efficiency of our research partners and offering significant savings in communication costs,? says Dai Davies, General Manager of Dante, ?GEANT will open up a host of new possibilities for co-operation and sharing. Areas such as remote learning and computational networks require the sort of bandwidth capacity that this new network will be able to provide."
According to Colt, the deal will help the company build its reputation as one of Europe's leading telecommunications companies, and will serve as a demonstration of the company's ability to run high-speed networks. "10 Gigabit services are at the leading edge of technology, and it is a testament to our core company values of quality and reliability that DANTE have selected COLT to provide them with a next generation network,? said Peter Manning, COLT President and CEO. ?This significant contract win demonstrates what can be achieved when you own and operate your own end to end network across Europe."
Dante operates a high-powered research Internet, connecting university research networks in 25 European countries, in an effort to deliver a platform that will allow researchers to share information, run high-capacity programs across multiple sites and co-operate on joint research in a range of areas, including telecommunications.
The network, called Geant, is designed to facilitate research in topics including weather forecasting, high-energy physics and telecommunications networking. It will allow researchers located across Europe to co-operate as though they were in the same laboratory, as a result of the increase in power and capacity of the network.
In order to fill this requirement, Dante has purchased a number of 10 and 2.5 Gigabit wavelength services from Colt, which will be incorporated into a new backbone network connecting 32 European countries. According to Dante, the network will connect the largest number of researchers in the world.
Dai Davies, DANTE General Manager stated "this new infrastructure will allow us to offer speeds of transmission previously impossible on the old network. As well as increasing the efficiency of our research partners and offering significant savings in communication costs,? says Dai Davies, General Manager of Dante, ?GEANT will open up a host of new possibilities for co-operation and sharing. Areas such as remote learning and computational networks require the sort of bandwidth capacity that this new network will be able to provide."
According to Colt, the deal will help the company build its reputation as one of Europe's leading telecommunications companies, and will serve as a demonstration of the company's ability to run high-speed networks. "10 Gigabit services are at the leading edge of technology, and it is a testament to our core company values of quality and reliability that DANTE have selected COLT to provide them with a next generation network,? said Peter Manning, COLT President and CEO. ?This significant contract win demonstrates what can be achieved when you own and operate your own end to end network across Europe."
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