HEAnet

Short description: Educational network provider in Ireland

HEAnet

Formation| 1983; incorporated in November 1997[1]
Legal status| Company limited by guarantee
Headquarters| Dublin

Region served

| Ireland

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,[1] 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, the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (National Supercomputing Centre) and other higher education institutions (HEIs). It also provides internet services to primary and post-primary schools in Ireland and research organisations.[3][4] Their clients also include various state-sponsored bodies, including hosting the online live conferencing service of the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland.[5]

HEAnet also hosts a mirror service, which acts as a mirror for projects such as SourceForge, Debian, and Ubuntu.[6]

In 2014, HEAnet hosted the TERENA Conference in Dublin. It was held between 19 and 22 May 2014 in Dublin.[7]

In 2017, HEAnet announced additional investment in "100Gbps [services] to boost bandwidth accessed by [...] 216 academic locations around Ireland".[8][9]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About". Heanet.ie. https://www.heanet.ie/about.
2. ↑ "HEAnet to announce new security deal". Irishtimes.com. 2014-05-22. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/heanet-to-announce-new-security-deal-1.1804014.
3. ↑ "HEAnet clients". HEAnet. https://www.heanet.ie/about/client-list.
4. ↑ "HEAnet completes €30m second level broadband rollout". TechCentral.ie. 8 December 2014. https://www.techcentral.ie/heanet-completes-e30m-second-level-broadband-rollout/.
5. ↑ "Our Clients". https://www.heanet.ie/who-we-are/our-clients.
6. ↑ "ftp.heanet.ie". ftp.heanet.ie. http://ftp.heanet.ie.
7. ↑ "TERENA Networking Conference 2014: Networking with the World". digitalmeetsculture.net. 12 May 2014. https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/terena-networking-conference-2014-networking-with-the-world/.
8. ↑ "HEAnet invests €5m in 100Gbps nationwide network". Siliconrepublic.com. 4 September 2017. https://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/heanet-100gbps-broadband-network.
9. ↑ "Agile Networks secures €5m contract with HEAnet". Irishtimes.com. 18 July 2016. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/agile-networks-secures-5m-contract-with-heanet-1.2725199.

## External links

* HEAnet network map

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