Academic network of the University of Montenegro connected with the European Academic network (GÉANT)

Academic network of the University of Montenegro is connected with the European Academic Network (GÉANT) since October 1st 2010. Capacity of the link is significantly increased comparing to previous connection. We expect that users of the Academic network of the UoM, besides the increased capacity of the link, will take the opportunity and use many advantages that connection with other national research and education European networks offers. During the course of project realization, Information Technology Center will make efforts to identify the needs of UoM academic network users and introduce new services that are developed within GN3 project.

GÉANT project – GN3 is created and developed by the consortium of National Research and Education Networks - NRENs, with the financial support of the European Commission as part of the FP7. This agreement between project partners and the European Commission provides total financing of 93 million by the European Commission, for the period of four years starting with April 1st 2009. The same amount financing is provided also by the NREN project partners connected to the network. Project manages pan-European GEANT network and portfolio of advanced services for research and education community, and connects 40 million users from over 8 000 institutions in 40 countries.

GÉANT has two main focuses: providing services and cooperation. While previous GÉANT project was mainly focused at the very building of hybrid network, GN3 is focused at development and presentation of services to National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and their users, institutions and projects in order to provide the best possible network performances.

In addition, GN3 is focused at providing services, not only to NREN networks but also to users, institutions and projects, and this implies close cooperation of all consortium members. Thanking to GÉANT-u, results of scientific experiments, such are radio astronomy findings, could be available immediately instead of three weeks later. GÉANT also provides access to remote resources that are sometimes too expensive for development by certain country, such are telescopes placed at remote locations.

Benefits of the pan-European GÉANT area of services are particularly notable within large projects which use GÉANT infrastructure, such are the Large Hadron Collider in CERN and EXPReS project which connects remote radio telescopes accross Europe, and similar.