Community Services

In addition to the powerful backbone service, ACOnet provides a set of additional services for its participants.

ACOnet presently offers the following services:

• Internet Connectivity
• GovIX
• Local Internet Registry (LIR)
• IPv6
• ACOnet Identity Federation
• eduroam
  • The Wireless-LAN roaming infrastructure of the European National Research Networks (NRENs), allowing users of participating institutions to easily connect to any eduroam-enabled hotspot in Europe
• Administration of TLS/SSL Server Certificates based on the TERENA Certificate Service (TCS)
  • Globally valid and accepted certificates, without license costs
• Administration of the domain ac.at
• Recursive Nameserver
• Timeserver
• eduPERT
• ACOnet Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)
  • The ACOnet-CERT helps participants in preventing security-related incidents. It handles reported security problems within ACOnet and coordinates appropriate countermeasures.
• Customer Care
• VCampus Student Dormitory connection
  • Including the "NightLine", which - during the night - allows to exceeded the contracted bandwidth by a factor of 8
• Web Portal

• Virtual private networks
  • Virtual networks separated from the regular traffic for specific applications (e.g. VoIP, Multicast) or for closed user groups (e.g. governmental institutions)
• LightPath-Services
  • Virtual leased lines for (transient) international projects, requiring stable and deterministic performance