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Titolo: TEN-155: Europe Moves into the Fast Lane !

Qualcuno sa chi fornira' l'accesso a 155 Mbps al Garr per TEN-155,
visto che Telecom Italia al momento non sembra avere tale capacita' ?
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Dear all,
This morning DANTE and Unisource Belgium announced the contract signature
to build the new pan-European research network TEN-155.
Following please find the DANTE press release.
More information on TEN-155 and the press release in Dutch, German, French,
Italian and Spanish can be found on: 
http://www.dante.net/ten-155/
Please contact me, if you have further questions.
Best regards
Cathrin
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Press Release 
For Release 17 September 1998
The Trans-European Network at 155 Mbps
TEN-155: "Europe Moves into the Fast Lane!"
The European Research Community is the first to benefit from the
liberalisation of the European telecommunications market. After years of
monopolistic prices in conjunction with small available bandwidth
capacities for pan-European connectivity, the new European research
network, TEN-155, will be the first pan-European network to close the gap
between bandwidth available and affordable nationally and internationally!
TEN-155 will provide European researchers with a core network at 155 Mbps
based on SDH technology with nodes in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Belgium, the Czech Republic,
Greece, Hungary, Slovenia and Spain will be connected to the core at 34/45
Mbps. There will be 10 Mbps links to Luxembourg and Portugal. The design of
the TEN-155 network also provides for extension of the service to the USA
and other Continents. 
The increasing dependence on Internet services for cooperative research at
institutions and universities across Europe leads to ever increasing
requirements for research network bandwidth. The national research networks
(i.e. the national organisations providing universities and research
institutions with Internet connectivity which is independent of the
commercial Internet) have in the past years responded by increasing their
bandwidth capacities to 155 Mbps on a national scale. On a pan-European
scale this sort of bandwidth was neither available nor affordable before 1
January 1998. 
TEN-155 broke the monopolistic price barrier and the bandwidth rationing
which existed in pre-liberalised Europe. The new research network will
combine the best from both IP and ATM technology and will offer guaranteed
Quality of Service using ATM technology  in addition to a ‘best efforts’ IP
service. A development programme will test advanced IP and ATM technology
in a Wide Area and International environment with a view to implementing
the results at a later stage. Consequently, the TEN-155 network will meet
the requirements of the European research community for more bandwidth and
guaranteed Quality of Service to facilitate international communication and
co-operation.
Migration from the current European research network TEN-34 to the new 
TEN-155 network will commence in autumn this year.
TEN-155 has been organised and will be implemented by a Consortium of all
European research networks with DANTE as the Coordinating Partner. DANTE is
a not-for-profit company founded in 1993 to organise and manage the
provision of pan-European Internet connectivity for the European research
community.
The contract for the supply of the bulk of circuit capacity and the Managed
Bandwidth Service has been awarded to Unisource Belgium. Contracts with
other European Telecom Operators are still being negotiated.
The TEN-155 network will be co-funded by the European Commission under the
Fourth Framework Programme. 
Who is TEN-155 ?
DANTE (Co-ordinating Partner)   	United Kingdom
And the following national research networks:
ACONET                                  Austria
ARNES                                   Slovenia
BELNET                                  Belgium
CESNET                                  Czech Republic
DFN                                     Germany
FCCN                                    Portugal
GRnet                                   Greece
HUNGARNET                               Hungary
INFN                                    Italy
                                {       Denmark
                                {       Finland      
NORDUnet                        {       Iceland         
				 {        Norway 
                                {       Sweden
RedIRIS                                 Spain
RENATER                                 France
RESTENA                                 Luxembourg
SURFnet                                 Netherlands
SWITCH                                  Switzerland
UKERNA                                  UK
For more information on DANTE or TEN-155, please contact:
_____________________________________________________________________
       * *      Cathrin Stover - External Relations Manager
     *    *
    *           Francis House                Tel 
+44 1223 302992
   *            112 Hills Road               Fax 
+44 1223 303005
   *            Cambridge CB2 1PQ
D A N T E      United Kingdom               WWW 
http://www.dante.net
_____________________________________________________________________

visto che Telecom Italia al momento non sembra avere tale capacita' ?
Telecom Italia I mean. :)
Mi era sembrato di leggere che gia' da un po' Telecom Italia stia
sperimentando tra Torino e Milano, in collaborazione con Alcatel, un
link SDH STM-1.
Ma forse mi sbaglio: .mau Codogno se ci sei batti un colpo! :)
Cia0
Marc1

 wrote:
% >Qualcuno sa chi fornira' l'accesso a 155 Mbps al Garr per TEN-155,
% >visto che Telecom Italia al momento non sembra avere tale capacita' ?
% Telecom Italia I mean. :)
% 
% Mi era sembrato di leggere che gia' da un po' Telecom Italia stia
% sperimentando tra Torino e Milano, in collaborazione con Alcatel, un
% link SDH STM-1.
% Ma forse mi sbaglio: .mau Codogno se ci sei batti un colpo! :)
.mau., senza il punto di destra perdo l'equilibrio...
Per quanto ne so io, CSELT sta facendo prove su ATM a velocita` ben
superiore ai 34 Mb/s che e` il massimo dell'offerta attuale, ma non mi
occupo direttamente di queste cose.
.mau.