What Services Do NRENs Provide?

The following summarizes the range of most services offered by NRENs to the community members they serve:
1. Dedicated high-speed, reliable and highly available networks:
this is the most fundamental and important service provided by NRENs to its members
2. Network services and applications:Basic services:Web hosting services
Domain Name services
Email services
Network security services
Bandwidth on Demand
Bandwidth management (e.g. web caching and traffic shaping) services.
Network Operating Center (NOC)
Storage services
Collocation services
IP telephony services (VoIP)
Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) services
Video services: Video Conferencing, Video on Demand
3. E-learning services: by leveraging the NRENs platforms and services to stimulate new techniques for teaching and learning (such as videoconferencing for distance learning).
4. Integration of and access to digital libraries and archived content.
5.Foster advanced research: NRENs provide next-generation based high bandwidth infrastructure to allow the national scientific community to remain at the forefront of the research development.
6.Technology transfer: NRENs can enable the transfer of innovations between the research community and the industry to benefit the entire society.
7.Consultancy services: NRENs can offer centralized expertise and consulting services, such as advanced security services for intrusion detection and prevention that individual institutions would not be able to solely afford for financial and expertise reasons.
8.Promotion of members’ interest: This promotion can be achieved through activities such as the lobbying and awareness campaigns.
9.Lower cost of high bandwidth internet access, services and applications: As a demand aggregator, NRENs can leverage the collective buying power to lower the price of bandwidth, applications and services for its community.