DANTE Announces Tender for TEIN2 Connectivity

On 29 November 2004, the European Commission approved Phase 2 of the TEIN2 project. The approval follows the EC's acceptance of the report prepared on the feasibility study conducted under the project's first phase.

Phase 2 will provide a high-speed network for research and education within Asia, and will connect that network to the pan-European infrastructure of GÉANT and the European national research and education networks. 

The second phase is beginning with a connectivity tender process, and DANTE is pleased to announce the publication of the contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Commission. Expressions of interest to participate in this tender are invited up to 8 January 2005.

Links to the catalogue data, the full entry in the Offical Journal and to a PDF file of the contract notice are available from the See Also box alongside.