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STRATEGY > KNOWLEDGE/COMPETENCY
EU, China Link High-Speed Network Connection
BRUSSELS—April 28, 2006--Communication and collaboration among 45 million researchers and students across Europe and China will be facilitated by a new Sino-European high-speed network connection. Co-funded by the European Union, China and European National Research and Education Networks, the €4.15 million ORIENT (Oriental Research Infrastructure to European Networks) project will benefit all Sino-European research, including radio astronomy, sustainable development, meteorology, and grid computing, by helping to step up the flow of information between Europe and China. The ORIENT project is supported by the EU’s 6th Research Framework Program.
“Access to applications such as telemedicine, digital libraries and e-learning will help the general public, as well as the research community, to build academic and cultural links between Europe and China,” said Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding.
ORIENT will connect Europe’s GÉANT2 international research and education network and the Chinese research networks CERNET and CSTNET on an overland route via Siberia. Scheduled to go live in 2006, it will link more than 200 Chinese universities and research institutions, at speeds to 2.5 Gbps. It will be coordinated by research networking organization DANTE in Europe and the CERNET network in China.
The project will run for three years.
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