TERENA NREN Compendium 2010
Basic Information

Updated: 6 January 2011 at 12:55
Organisation:
Users / Clients Connectivity Services Traffic Technical Services Funding and Staffing Basic Information
  1. HEAnet Ltd.
  2.  
  3. HEAnet
  4.  
  5. 5 George's Dock, IFSC
    Dublin 1
  6.  
     
  7. Ireland
  8. +353 1 660 3666
  9. +353 1 660 9040
  10. info@heanet.ie
  11. http://www.heanet.ie
  12. 1983
  13. 1992
  14. 1997
  15. http://www.heanet.ie/about/History_and_Background
  16. (x)Separate legal entity of its own
    ( )Not a legal entity of its own, but part of a larger organisation
    ( )Not a separate legal entity and also not part of a larger organisation
  17.  
  18. ( )We are a government agency or part of a ministry
    ( )The Government appoints at least half of the members of our Governing body
    (x)There is an indirect relationship (for example if at least half the members of your Governing body are appointed by research and education institutions that in itself are (largely) government-funded)
    ( )No formal relationship
    ( )Other, please explain below
  20. The Board has the following representation:
    Universities: 7
    Institutes of Technology 4
    HEA (3rd level funding agency) 1
    Department of Enterprise, Trade & Innovation 1
    Academic librarians 1
  22. ( )Yes (x)No
  23.  
  24. (x)Yes ( )No
  25. http://www.heanet.ie/about/aup
  26. ( )Yes (x)No
  27. A clause was added to prohibit clients from reselling or giving away HEAnet service to third parties.
  28. ( )Yes (x)No
  29.  
  30. (x)Yes ( )No
  31. (x)Yes ( )No
  32. http://www.heanet.ie/about/environmental_policy
  33. (x)Yes ( )No ( )Planned
  34. 1765
  35. Delivery of additional service resilience (consisting of path, PoP, power and equipment resilience) to major clients.

    A cross-border link has been provided to give path resilience to the north-west sector of the national network. Thanks to JANET, NIRAN and QUB, a Letterkenny to Dublin circuit has been commissioned.

    A three-staged IPV6 strategic plan has been formulated to manage risks associated with the problem of IPV4 depletion. The plan initially aims to deliver HEAnet services completely independently of IPV4, but still interoperating with the IPV4 network, with delivery of an IPV6-only network to HEAnet clients by 2013.

    Technical dialogues to inform a CfT (Call for Tender) for the replacement of the present optical/Ethernet network (backbone and MANs) is ongoing with both Clients and Service Providers

    A 10 Gbit/s point to point inter-institute network was created for the use of the e-INIS project: to be used by the National Grid Initiative of Ireland.

    Continued roll-out of HD videoconferencing units to clients.

    A campus trial of WiMax technology was conducted with a large client.

    HEAnet’s federated access management service, Edugate, has reached production status.

    A greenhouse gas (GHG) audit of the HEAnet company, and its network, was completed in compliance with the ISO 14064 standard.

    There has been significant PoP consolidation work carried out this year.

    First pilot phase of a project to deliver 100 Mbit/s connectivity to all post-primary schools in Ireland is complete, with 78 schools connecting to HEAnet at 100 Mbit/s capacity.

    Technology refresh of Schools Broadband Programme is underway which delivers broadband connectivity to all 4,000 primary and post-primary schools in Ireland.

    3G mobile broadband deal at reduced price secured for all students and staff in HEAnet client instiututions.
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