PIONIER - Polish Optical Internet - a nationwide broadband optical network for e-science

PIONIER network is a nationwide broadband optical network represents a base for research and development in the area of information technology and telecommunications, computing sciences (grids, etc.), applications and services for the Information Society. Built entirely from the KBN (Committee for Scientific Research) funds, currently connects 21 Academic Network Centers Centers of Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) and 5 of the HPC (High Performance Computing)Centers using their own fiber connections. PIONIER is Europe's first national academic network that uses its own dark fiber optics and DWDM 10GE transmission.




Contact:
61-139 Poznań
Partners from PIONIER Consortium:
AMSK, BIAMAN, BYDMAN, CI TASK, CYFRONET, CzestMAN, IChB PAN PCSS, ICM UW, KIELMAN, LODMAN, LubMAN, MAN Opole, MAN RADOM, MSK KosMAN, MSK PulMAN, NASK, RCI OEiZ MSK OLMAN, RMSK, ŚASK, UCI UMK, WCSS, ZielMAN
Request for information regarding new optical dark fiber routes and services for PIONIER network

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center(hereinafter referred to as PSNC), Poznań, POLAND expresses interest to gather information regarding potential new optical dark fiber routes and services for PIONIER Polish National Research and Education network. In order to present current PIONIER network status and details regarding potential new services Request for Information (hereinafter referred to as RFI) document was prepared and published on PSNC website.


On 16-17 April 2013, the fourth edition of the Conference "i3 internet - infrastructure – innovations” will be held in Poznan. Proposals may be submitted up to 27 March.


On January 18, 2013 the trial videoconference was held between the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and MAN ( Metropolitan Academic Networks) centers in Gdansk, Gliwice, Poznan, Krakow, Wroclaw, Warsaw and Lodz.


This year, the world's largest meeting of HPC environments, networking, storage and analysis, was held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The conference, taking place from 10th to 16th November, was accompanied, as every year, by the exhibition (12-15.11.2012), during which PSNC together with the PIONIER Consortium for the seventh time presented the Polish achievements in the field of ICT.


On June 15 2012, the number of digital objects accessible through the Digital Library Federation exceeded 1 000 000. The Publication which entered into the FBC database in this unique way, comes from the collection of the Silesian Library, and was made available by the Silesian Digital Library on June 15, entitled "Polonia, 1928, R. 5, No. 149."

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