News
Advanced Connectivity for UCD
On Tuesday the 13th Jan, 2009, UCD became the first Irish University to connect to HEAnet, the National Education and Research Network at 10 Gigabit per second or 10,000 megabit per second. Previously UCD connected to HEAnet at 1 Gb/s.
So what does this mean?
1. UCD benefits from faster and better access to the world wide web
2. The resulting performance increase will future-proof UCD bandwidth requirements for a number of years to come
10 Gb/s sets a new standard of connectivity for Irish Higher Education Institutes. The increase in bandwidth and performance resulting from this new infrastructure, places the UCD academic and research bodies in the coveted position of harnessing a faster internet connection with higher traffic transfers.
To illustrate, 10Gb/s connectivity allows the equivalent of the entire 20 terabytes of published material in the US Library of Congress to be transferred in a little under 5 hours.
HEAnet are providing UCD with two diverse 10 Gb/s connections to ensure high availability of this vital service.
The chart below illustrates UCDs connection bandwidth to HEAnet over the past 17 years. January's upgrade continues the growth of Internet usage and innovation in UCD. The trend is exponential and amounts to a doubling of capacity every year.
This development was a result of joint effort between UCD IT Services Network Team and HEAnet.