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The opponency board appreciated the highly professional level of CESNET work and it evaluated the achieved results as excellent with international impact.
So far, SWITCH-CERT has made a name for itself in Switzerland as a competent IT security team providing rapid assistance to universities and companies in the case of actual security incidents
All other internet users can now benefit from this extensive experience in the IT security field too.
On 2 February 2010, SWITCH handed over an even more secure internet to Switzerland. Marc Furrer, President of the Federal Communications Commission, and Urs Eppenberger of SWITCH jointly launched the celebratory act in the KKL Luzern.
TERENA is pleased to announce that effective from 5 February 2010, the TERENA Certificate Service (TCS) will provide Personal and eScience Personal Certificates, as well as Code-Signing Certificates.
The TERENA Certificate Service allows a variety of digital certificates to be offered to research and education institutions in the countries of the participating national member organisations of TERENA. The certificates are issued by Comodo CA Limited, one of the largest Certification Authority providers worldwide.
The Greek Research and Technology Network, GRNET, will host the first TF-Media meeting on 18-19 March 2010, in Athens, Greece. The TF-Media task force meeting will be preceded by a GRNET workshop on academic media casting on 18 March 2010. Participants are invited to sign up to both events.
RedIRIS is hosting the technical meeting of GEANT Access Port Managers (APM), which will be celebrated in Madrid on 3 - 4 February. In addition, the Spanish NREN will give a course on security for the participants of the EUMEDCONNECT2 project, an international initiative linked to the pan-European GEANT network. The objective of the EUMEDCONNECT2 project is to establish and operate an IP network in the Mediterranean region. The security course will be held in Madrid on 10 and 11 February.
RedIRIS, as a participant of the EGEE-III project, is organising a new Grid course for the Spanish academic and scientific community and for participants of the Spanish e-Science and NGI Network, as well as members of the EGEE-III project.
The tutorial will be held from 1 to 5 February in Seville in the facilities of the Centro Informático Científico de Andalucía (CICA), and is designed to provide the basic knowledge necessary for the development of Grid applications.
We decided to adapt our site to the needs of our customers. We mainly focused on the usability of the site. Please do visit www.belnet.be to discover the new look.
CESNET participated in the high-definition transmissions of ophthalmologic surgeries performed during the Live + Video Surgery 2010 meeting of ophthalmologists on January 22. and 23. CESNET collaborated on the transmission arrangement with the CNC Praha company and the Central Military Hospital in Prague.
The next meeting of TF-Storage marks the conclusion of the task force's first two year mandate. TF-Storage will review and re-draft the terms of reference during the meeting on 4-5 March 2010, which will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and will be hosted by the Dutch national research and education network, SURFnet.