GEANT Connecting 30 NRENS across europe Jointly funded by NRENs and eC 10Gbps capacity, using mainly Juniper routers Platform for development and deployment of advanced services(Qos, IPv6, MPLs) Global research connectivity peering with Abilene, ESNET (USA), CA net4(Canada), SINET(Japan) inter-regional connectivity: ALICE Latin America) TEIN(ASia/Pacific), EUMEDCONNECT(North Africa)8 GÉANT • Connecting 30 NRENs across Europe – Jointly funded by NRENs and EC – 10Gbps capacity, using mainly Juniper routers • Platform for development and deployment of advanced services (QoS, IPv6, MPLS) • Global research connectivity – peering with Abilene, ESNET (USA) , CA*net4 (Canada), SINET(Japan) – inter-regional connectivity： ALICE(Latin America)， TEIN(Asia/Pacific)， EUMEDCONNECT(North Africa)