What Do Staff At DANTE Do?

DANTE has around 35 staff who collectively have considerable knowledge and experience in the various technical and commercial disciplines required to meet the exacting demands of providing international networks. The main functional activites of the company may be summarised as follows:

• Commercial and Financial Management
• Network Engineering and Planning
• Operations
• Public Relations.

Commercial and Financial Management includes contract negotiation and management, project and financial management.

The Network Engineering and Planning team is responsible for the engineering of all network related issues and for the introduction of new services. Initially, new services undergo a pilot phase, after which they are handed over to the Operations group. Its members have proven expertise in various fields such as IPv6, Multicast, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Quality of Service (QoS).

The Operations group has responsibility for the installation, good operation and performance of network services provided, or managed, by DANTE. This includes the provision of support for large international projects and Grids. Its members are also in charge of the traffic-reporting activities of DANTE, as well as of such services as statistics collection and the deployment of new services, such as IPv6.

The Public Relations group handles DANTE’s external communications and marketing.