Welcome to ACOnet
ACOnet is the Austrian Academic Computer Network for science, research, education and culture (NREN). ACOnet offers its members access to other academic networks through GÉANT as well as the Internet.
News
June 08, 2009
Lower Austria connected to the "Austrian Academic Computer Network"
Read more about the new ACOnet PoPs in Lower Austria (german only).
June 02, 2009
RIPE NCC launches Website: IPv6 Act Now
"Now is the time to recognise that sustainable growth of the IPv4-based Internet is coming to an end, and that it is time to move on, with IPv6 as the successor."
Topology
ACOnet switches with routing capabilities in Vienna, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Leoben and Eisenstadt are connected with Gigabit Ethernet over DWDM-technology. With this infrastructure and the appropriate network protocols all ACOnet members have powerful connectivity to the global Internet and to different network services in Austria. The PoPs in Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and Graz are connected to Vienna in a redundant manner via DWDM rings. [more]
eduroam
eduroam stands for "Education Roaming" and allows users of participating institutions to access the Internet at other participants using their home institution's credentials. All this with a minimal adminstrative overhead. Depending on local policies at the visited institutions, eduroam participants may also have additional resources at their disposal. [more]