Established in 1993, Canada’s National Research and Education Network (NREN) is a non-profit corporation, with most of its funding provided by the Government of Canada. CANARIE is formed by  13 provincial and territorial partners and is an ultra-high-speed network that connects Canada’s researchers, educators, and innovators to each other and to global data, technology, and colleagues. Through collaboration with partners in the NREN, government, academia, and the private sector to fund, implement, and support cybersecurity initiatives and also provide identity management services to the academic community and boost Canada’s startups with cloud resources and expertise in emerging technologies.

Since its establishment over 20 years ago, the GÉANT network has developed progressively to ensure that European researchers lead international and global collaboration. Over 1000 terabytes of data is transferred via the GÉANT IP backbone every day. More than just an infrastructure for e-science, it stands as a positive example of European integration and collaboration. Through its integrated catalogue of connectivity, collaboration and identity services, GÉANT provides users with highly reliable, unconstrained access to computing, analysis, storage, applications and other resources, to ensure that Europe remains at the forefront of research.

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) provides advanced research infrastructure to contribute for the advancement of national scientific, technical and industrial development based on the national supercomputer and national research network(KREONET/KREONet2). KREONET is developing, building and operating world-class national research network infrastructure and application platform by applying state-of-art network technology and providing advanced network service and collaboration environment to R&D community and researcher of higher education, national research lab or institute, Korea research and development agency, governments, library, university hospital, research lab of industry etc.

NORDUnet was founded in 1985 and is jointly owned by the governments of the five Nordic countries, Denmark (DeIC), Finland (Funet), Iceland (RHnet), Norway (UNINETT), and Sweden (SUNET).  Each NREN serves their Research and Educations (R&E) institutions on a national scale and jointly enable scientists, educators, and students to work and share knowledge globally and connect them to the rest of the R&E Networking world as well as to the commercial Internet.

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SURF is a cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions in which the members combine their strengths to ensure that researchers, instructors, and students can work together simply and effectively with the aid of ICT. SURF works to acquire or develop the best possible digital services, and to encourage knowledge sharing globally through continuous innovation. 

The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is a high-performance, unclassified network built to support scientific research. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC) and managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides services to more than 50 DOE research sites, including the entire National Laboratory system, its supercomputing facilities, and its major scientific instruments. ESnet also connects to 140 research and commercial networks, permitting DOE-funded scientists to collaborate productively with global partners.

A non-profit, member-driven advanced technology community founded in 1996 by leading higher education institutions in the United States. Internet2 provides a secure high-speed network, cloud solutions, research support, and services tailored for research and education. Internet2 members include higher education, research institutions, regional and state education networks, government entities, leading corporations and cultural organizations. More than 2,000 organizations strong, our community includes collaborators from the U.S. and around the globe.

The Networks for European, American, African, and Arctic Research (NEA3R) collaboration, a part of International Networks at Indiana University(IN@IU), provides a powerful, cross organizational resource to provide bandwidth, network measuring and monitoring and other services connecting researchers in the US with their counterparts in Europe, Africa, and the Arctic. Through its extensive regional partnerships,  NEA3R supports a system of over 600 Gbps capacity in logical circuits and that reaches research and education communities in over 80 countries across three continents.

National Institute of Informatics (NII) operates the Science Information Network (SINET), an information and communication network that connects universities and research institutions throughout Japan via nationwide connection points. It is designed to promote research and education as well as the circulation of scientific information among universities, research institutions, and similar entities. SINET is also connected to research networks, such as Internet2 in the U.S.A., GÉANT in Europe, and Asian research and education networks, to facilitate dissemination of research information and collaborations over networks.