RENATER

RENATER, French Research and Education Network, was deployed in the early 90s in order to federate telecommunication infrastructures for Research and Education.

The RENATER Group was launched in February 1993 to bring together telecommunication infrastructures for Technology, Education, and Research. As manager of the RENATER network, it aims to offer its members secure broadband network access and to provide high-performance collaborative services that are tailored to the needs of the community. RENATER plays a major role in spreading education and research throughout Europe and the world. Equipping the community with fixed and mobile high-speed broadband infrastructure capable of supporting exchanges in the best possible conditions of speed, quality, security, and integrity, RENATER has become a key asset in supporting the community for Research Education in a strategic partnership approach.

Member organisations of the RENATER PIG are the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of Education, the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research), CPU (Chair of the Association of theFrench universities), CEA (the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission), INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), CNES (the French National Centre for Space Studies), INRA (the French National Institutefor Agricultural Research), Inserm (the National Institute of Health and Medical Research), Onera the French National Office for AerospaceStudies and Research, CIRAD (International Centre of Agricultural Research for Development), IRSTEA (The French National Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture), IRD (French Research Institute for Development) and BRGM (Bureau of Geological and MiningResearch). The RENATER network today has a very large infrastructure that is dedicated to the research and education community.

More than 1000 sites are connected to RENATER via campus, metropolitan or regional networks. RENATER offers national and international connectivity, and evolves according to technologies’ improvements and available capacity infrastructure.

The GIP RENATER also runs RENATERix, Internet exchange point since 1995.