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Network and Connectivity

Solutions designed for the research and education sector

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Fast, reliable and scalable broadband to keep your campus connected, locally and globally

From pioneering the internet in Australia more than 30 years ago to today, AARNet is renowned for delivering the advanced network and connectivity solutions to support the unique bandwidth and performance requirements of research and education.

Our network

AARNet is Australia's national research and education network, a network that's purpose built for the research and education sector. It is carrier-grade and engineered with low latency, low contention and sufficient headroom capacity to support bursts of intense use, so there’s no congestion.

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Connectivity solutions

AARNet Internet

Dedicated optical fibre directly to your institution or organisation. Fast, reliable and scalable internet access to support all your research, education and business-critical applications. AARNet internet connections are typically 1, 10 or 100Gbps.

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Private Connections

Fast, reliable and scalable connectivity solutions for interconnecting your campuses, facilities and data centres. We offer cost-effective dark fibre, wavelength and ethernet solutions across metropolitan, regional and interstate distances.

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Cloud Connect

Fast, reliable and secure direct private networks connect your organisation or institution to public cloud providers, including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

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Research Data Movement

High-performance connectivity services and a range of technical solutions for managing big data flows. These services are optimised for data-intensive research traffic.

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eduroam Wi-Fi

eduroam is a secure global roaming wireless network service for the research and education sector. eduroam hotspots are available at thousands of locations across Australia and worldwide.

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Network Monitoring

Optimise network performance and free up time for your in-house IT teams by outsourcing monitoring of your internal campus networks to our 24x7 Operations Centre.

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AARNet Connect

This program for connecting service providers to the AARNet network optimises the delivery of hosted and cloud-based services to our customers.

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AARNet Mirror

The AARNet Mirror provides exact replicas of original websites to give you faster online access to a large range of international open-source and academic archives, among other websites.

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Related case studies

Read about how researchers from many disciplines and educators across the lifelong learning spectrum are benefiting from the AARNet network and connectivity services.

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Barker college robotics centre field

Fast, diverse connectivity helps K-12 school achieve STEM education ambitions

Campus-wide networking capabilities provided by AARNet support technology-driven curriculum at Barker College

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Trinity College Lismore 2022 floods

Staying connected through adversity

When record floods inundated the city of Lismore in northern NSW, Southern Cross University became a hub for the town, providing connectivity for recovery efforts and giving a new life to Trinity Catholic College.

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SUPL Scientists from The University of Melbourne

Connecting the first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere

AARNet connects scientific instruments and research facilities across Australia, extending the network infrastructure to new sites, such as the laboratory that is set to be the epicentre of data matter research.

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