Welcome to ACOnet
ACOnet is the Austrian Academic Computer Network (NREN) for science, research, education and culture. ACOnet offers its members high-performance access via GÉANT to international academic networks, as well as the Internet.
News
May 06, 2013
New AustrianGrid Website
The new AustrianGrid website is an information portal about high performance computing (HPC), grid and cloud related topics for austrian researchers and organizations.
March 01, 2013
TERENA Networking Conference 2013
TERENA invites you to participate in the TERENA
Networking Conference (TNC2013 "Innovating together"), which takes place on 3-6 June 2013 in Maastricht, Netherlands, hosted by the duch NREN SURFnet.
January 23, 2013
Network Performing Arts Production Workshop 2013
on March 12 - 14, 2013 mdw and ACOnet are organizing a workshop about the newest IT-trends concerning „Performing Arts over Advanced Networks“ in cooperation with TERENA and Internet2.
ACOnet Filesender Tool
ACOnet FileSender is a web-based tool for the transmission of large files between identified individuals.
GÉANT
Besides 35 other National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), ACOnet is part of GÉANT, a fast and reliable pan-European data network serving Europe’s research and education community.
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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.
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