ACOnet
Abbreviation | ACONET |
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Formation | 1986 |
Legal status | Association |
Purpose | To promote the academic computer network Aconet, in particular its further development and its use by public research in Austria |
Headquarters | Vienna, Austria |
Region served | Austria |
Main organ | Member Assembly |
Website | www |
ACOnet is the name of the
History
In 1981 the computer centres of the Austrian universities and the Ministry for Science and Research started the development of ACOnet. The first international connectivity was obtained in 1985, with connections to
A common, vendor-independent communications infrastructure for ACOnet was established in the second half of the 1990s.
In its first phase, ACOnet set up a private
in a ring topology. Connection speeds were initially 9.6 kbit/s and later 64 kbit/s.In 1990 the University of Vienna obtained connectivity to the Internet thanks to the European Academic Supercomputer Initiative (EASI) of
The year 1992 saw the replacement of the X.25 network by an IP network. In this stage the core of ACOnet was a triangular backbone with data connections linking the multi-protocol ACOnet routers in the universities in Vienna, Linz and Graz, to which the other locations were connected. Connection speeds in this stage were 64 and 128 kbit/s.
The growing traffic on the ACOnet network and the need to introduce new services that required higher bandwidths made a further transition and upgrade necessary. In 1994 the universities of Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Leoben and Graz were connected to the
In 1996 ATM technology was introduced in parts of the ACOnet carrier network, to cater for the fast increasing bandwidth needs in especially the locations Vienna, Linz and Graz. In 1997 also the university locations in Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and Leoben went over to ATM technology, so that ACOnet had once again a uniform backbone network.
In 2001 access to the network in Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt was transferred to Gigabit
The network
ACOnet offers a high-performance network infrastructure based on
ACOnet offers a multi-10-Gbit/s Ethernet backbone, multi-10-Gbit/s Internet access, multi-10-Gbit/s connectivity to research networks in Europe and beyond via
Services
Since December 2010, the Government
AConet offers a
The ACOnet Identity Federation provides a federated identity service, bringing together identity providers and service providers in the Austrian research and education community.
ACOnet is the National Roaming Operator for the eduroam service in Austria.
ACOnet participates in the
ACOnet-CERT is the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) for the Austrian academic community.
References
- ^ "Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services (GN3PLUS)". 1 April 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.