My university uses #Geoblocking of known evil countries.

#Geoblocking is a very sensible and appropriate security measure, as it ensures that

only those with evil and hostile intentions get to your sites -
because for those, geoblocking is easy to circumvent -

while all normal naive believers in global connectivity - such as scientists, academics, students - are left out.

I commend the use of #geoblock

#science #university #network #nren

Very happy to be working with my friends and colleagues in #Nepal again.
Our oldest memories go back nearly 20 years, when we deployed #wifi in the #himalaya - two old pictures included.

#mastodon presence in #Nepal still small (i guess) (pls shout if you are in Nepal!)

and anyway this post would be invisible to them, as my university has a #geoblock against all of Nepal ... duh :(

#wireless #NepalWireless
#NREN #Nepal workshop 2026
#Campus #Network Design and Operations
#NSRC #Kathmandu

The #FileSender Board invites all interested persons 🤓 to the upcoming annual #NREN FileSender meeting at #TNC26.
📌 Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2026
📌 Time: 09:00-10:30 EEST
📌 Venue: Paavo, Helsinki Music Hall, Helsinki, Finland

Join us and register to participate 👉️ https://filesender.org/save-the-date-filesender-meeting-at-tnc26-on-june-9-2026/

@geant #networking @nordunet @renater @DKFZ @SURF

"Cornell Tech has received more than $7 million from Schmidt Sciences and NASA to upgrade arXiv, an open-access research repository of more than 2.8 million articles. "

It's great news for arXiv. I'm just wondering why they want actually move to the cloud:

"finish migrating to cloud infrastructure"

NREN are providing access for educational networks, I hope the cloud mentioned there is operated by a NREN operator.

🔗 https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/11/7m-grant-nasa-schmidt-sciences-upgrade-arxiv

#arxiv #opendata #openscience #nren #science

> San Diego State University (SDSU) recently announced that it would become the first CENIC member—and the first research institution in the world—to enjoy a native 800 Gigabit per second (Gbps) connection to a high-performance research and education network, the network being of course CENIC’s California Research and Education Network (CalREN)

From https://cenic.org/news/cenic-juniper-networks-enable-800-gbps-connections-to-california-research-and-education-network-for-cenic-members

Insane capacity for sure.

#NREN #Internet

This week, we joined the #RTISummit2025 in Copenhagen to highlight the role of GÉANT and our #NREN community in supporting research and innovation across Europe.

We were part of a joint booth together with the European e-Infrastructures Assembly: EGI Foundation, EUDAT, @OpenAIRE, & PRACE, showcasing how we work together to support European research, education, and innovation.

👏 Thank you to the event organisers & to all who joined us at the booth.