Nokia, Nomios Group and GÉANT have announced that GÉANT, the collaboration of European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), will deploy a state-of-the-art IP/MPLS solution from Nokia as part of a 10-year frame agreement led by Nomios Group, a leading European provider of cybersecurity services and solutions.
As part of its GN5 IP/MPLS routing and switching replacement project, GÉANT will be the first NREN in the world to deploy 800 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) routing interfaces, tripling capacity and supercharging its 50,000km network by establishing a resilient and secure foundation for extreme collaboration and knowledge sharing among an international alliance of researchers.
GÉANT interconnects 40 NRENs in 40 European countries and links 50 million users and institutions to more than 100 additional NRENs in every region of the world. The high-performance IP backbone network will be the foundation for a global coalition of researchers focused on breakthrough research across disciplines such as high-energy physics, biomedicine, radio astronomy and climate-impacting weather conditions.
Over the past five years, the GÉANT network has experienced 30% traffic growth each year and is now carrying more than 7 Petabytes of data daily. This is due, in large part, to the proliferation of instruments such as telescopes, sensors and detectors, which gather more data with greater precision, sensitivity and speed. Supercomputers process vast volumes of data, analysing and validating findings. Given the high level of collaboration between allied institutions, that data must be transferred rapidly, reliably, securely and cost-effectively.
Nomios and Nokia will undertake the complete replacement and upgrade of GÉANT’s existing IP/MPLS routing and switching infrastructure, ensuring enhanced scalability, security and reliability for GÉANT’s extensive network operations.
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