KAREN goes live 6:30pm 31 August 2006

The Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) is being launched by the Rt Hon Helen Clark, today, Thursday 31 August in Auckland at 6:30pm in the ACCESS GRID SUITE of the Human Sciences Building, Auckland University, New Zealand. For those of you who are unable to make it, we have a live webcast of the launch at the following URL http://www.r2.co.nz/20060831 (The link will be live from around 6:00pm).

REANNZ has signed its first two international partnership agreements with National Lambda Rail (http://www.nlr.net/) and Internet2 (http://www.internet2.edu/) in the USA. These memoranda of understanding (MoU) will enable New Zealand researchers and educators on these networks to interact and collaboarate seamlessly.

Testing of the network during the important proof of concept phase is progressing well.  TelstraClear and Verizon Business, working with a dedicated team from University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, Scion in Rotorua, and REANNZ staff, have succeeded in:

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