Previous Projects

DANTE has also been involved with a number of previous projects that have now finished; it has also participated in other projects that have subsequently been extended, but in which it is no longer directly involved as a partner.

You can find out more about these projects by following the links below (some of which will take you to pages on DANTE’s old web site; please note these pages are no longer being actively maintained).

• 6NET
  A project to demonstrate how IPv6 technology can enable the continued growth of the Internet.
  
  
• 6LINK
  A project that aimed to foster an improved understanding of the most important issues for IPv6 development and deployment.
  
  
• CAESAR
  A feasibility study to evaluate the possibility of a direct interconnection between GÉANT and Latin American research networks.
  
  
• CAPE
  A feasibility study of direct internet connectivity between Europe and Asia Pacific.
  
  
• EuropaNET
  A project that ran from 1990 to 1997 and connected national university networks across Europe as well as offering full connectivity to the global Internet.
  
  
• GÉANT
  The predecessor to GÉANT2, GÉANT was a project to build and operate a high-speed pan-European backbone that represented significant advances in capabilities over previous generations.
  
  
• PHARE
  A project to connect eleven countries in central and eastern Europe to the rest of the European research network.
  
  
• Q-Med
  A project to develop high quality network services to the NRENs of Israel and Cyprus.
  
  
• QUANTUM
  A project that developed the third-generation TEN-155 network between 1998 and 2001.
  
  
• SEEFIRE
  A special support action to identify benchmarks for existing and potentially available optical fibre for NRENs in southern and eastern Europe.
  
  
• SEQUIN
  A project that aimed to define and implement an end-to-end approach to Quality of Service (QoS) that would operate across multiple management domains and exploit a combination of IP and ATM technology.
  
  
• SERENATE
  A strategic study into European research and education networking as targeted by eEurope.
  
  
• TEN-34
  A project that developed the second-generation pan-European research network, also called TEN-34, in 1997.