HEAnet

HEAnet
HEAnet Logo
Motto Ireland's National Education & Research Network
Formation 1983; incorporated in November 1997
Legal status Company limited by guarantee
Headquarters Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Region served
Ireland
Chairman of the Board of Directors
 Jim Fennell
Main organ
 Board of Directors
Website www.heanet.ie

HEAnet is the national education and research network of Ireland.

HEAnet’s e-infrastructure services support approximately 210,000 students and staff (third-level) in Ireland, and approximately 800,000 students and staff (first and second-level) relying on the HEAnet network.[1] In total, the network supports approximately 1 million users.[2]

Established in 1983 by a number of Irish universities, and supported by the Higher Education Authority, HEAnet provides e-infrastructure services to schools, colleges and universities within the Irish education system. Its network connects Irish universities, Institutes of technology in Ireland, and other higher education institutions (HEIs) and research organisations. It also provides internet services to primary and post-primary schools in Ireland.

HEAnet also hosts a mirror service, which acts as a mirror for projects such as SourceForge, Debian, and Ubuntu.[3]

In 2017, HEAnet announced additional investment in "100Gbps [services] to boost bandwidth accessed by [...] 216 academic locations around Ireland".[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.heanet.ie/about
  2. ↑ https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/heanet-to-announce-new-security-deal-1.1804014
  3. ↑ http://ftp.heanet.ie
  4. ↑ https://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/heanet-100gbps-broadband-network
  5. ↑ https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/agile-networks-secures-5m-contract-with-heanet-1.2725199
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