A bi-monthly electronic newsletter reporting on the activities of DANTE, the company that organises pan-European research network services for the European research community.
No. 41, December 2000
Editor: Marine Chartois
WORLD SERVICE
The interconnection with the American backbone network Abilene has been upgraded by an extra 622 Mbps on an additional OC-12 (POS). An agreement has been reached with Abilene, which will now provide the DANTE world service customers with an International Network Transit (ITN) service, via which they will get access to STAR TAP and networks such as SingAREN, APAN, etc.
A new STM-1 transatlantic line into Vienna has been ordered in order to alleviate traffic on TEN-155 and should become operational in February 2001.
A new interconnection agreement with ESnet, the American Energy Science network, has also been signed in December 2000. For the first time, this agreement offers a shared-cost model for transatlantic connectivity.
STAFF AT DANTE
Anton Antonov (RU) joined us in mid-December as our New System Administrator. Anton graduated from Southern Ural State University (RU) and worked for 5 years as the Network Administrator for a bank in Chelyabinsk (RU) before he joined DANTE.
JOIN US! DANTE is currently offering
positions for Network Engineers. More information can be found on our
website at http://www.dante.net/jobs/.
