Speaker
Description
Global Connectivity has grown in term of bandwidth as well as diversity. This has not come about by chance but more of a deliberate and concerted effort by multiple NRENs to ensure the demands of the research and education community are met both in terms of bandwidth, resilience and trust with the increase in global collaboration. In 2024, the resilience in connectivity and backup plans was put to the test as we experience an abnormal number of cable disruptions around the world especially between Europe and Asia. Thanks to the foresight of NRENs leaders and the great work of the network engineers, the impact of cable breaks has been minimised. The presentation will cover how NRENs have collaboratively work together to ensure a resilient, pervasive Research and education network, ie how do we keep the data flowing across the R&E network.
