High speed initiatives of European national research networks

• FUNET in Finland (topology)

• RENATER 2bis in France

• Das Gigabit-Wissenschaftsnetz in Germany (in German)
  Information in English on the Gigabit projects of DFN can be found at http://www.dfn.de/willkommen/index.en.html#3

• Internet-2 in Israel

• GARR-B in Italy (in Italian)

• SURFnet5 in the Netherlands (Part of the GigaPort project)

• Forskningsnett in Norway

• RedIRIS plans in Spain.

• SUNET in Sweden

• SuperJANET 4 in the UK

• SWITCHng in Switzerland.

• The NORDUnet network in the Nordic countries (topology) and the NORDUnet2 initiative, mainly focused on applications.

High speed initiatives on other continents:

• Internet 2 in the US

• Advanced Networks in Canada