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CORDIS RTD-NEWS/c European Communities, 1998
Record Control Number : 11818 Date : 1998-12-16
Category : Programme implementation
General Information :
The new pan-European research network, TEN-155, became operational on 11 December 1998. The new network, which interconnects 16 European countries at speeds of 155 Mbps, replaces the old TEN-34 and will be the largest operational pan-European network.
TEN-155 will benefit researchers and students at universities all over Europe by providing guaranteed bandwidth to support their activities. For the first time, international bandwidth between European countries will be the same as the bandwidth available on the national services used by the European academic and research community. One difference between the old TEN-34 and TEN-155 is that the new network will permit the use of real-time multimedia applications such as video conferencing and multimedia broadcasting.
The first part of the TEN-155 network to become operational was the 155 Mbps ring connecting France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. At the same time links connected the Nordic countries and Switzerland to Germany and the Netherlands. A link between Belgium and the Netherlands will become operational on 17 December. The university networks of Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia will migrate from the existing TEN-34 network to TEN-155 before the end of January 1999. Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain will follow soon after and an extension of the TEN-155 network to Ireland is planned for 1999.
TEN-155 is a result of the Quantum proposal, submitted to the European Commission by a consortium of European national research networks. It has been developed under the Commission's Telematics Application Programme of the Fourth Framework Programme and takes advantage of the liberalisation of Europe's telecommunications market.
The TEN-155 network has been organised and implemented by European university networks and DANTE as the coordinating partner. DANTE is a not-for-profit company founded in 1993 to organise and manage the provision of pan-European Internet connectivity for the European research community.
Data Source Provider : URL: http://www.dante.net/ten-155.html
Document Reference : Based on press release from DANTE of 14 December 1998.
Programme Acronym : TELEMATICS
Subject Index Codes : Telecommunications
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