PIONIER is the
Polish national research and education network created to provide high-speed
Internet access and to conduct network-based research. Most of the government founded higher education organisations and all of
metropolitan area networks in Poland are connected to the PIONIER network, and are members of the PIONIER Consortium. The previous versions of the Polish academic computer network were called POL-34 and POL-155.
History
POL-34 was created as a result of an experiment hosted in
Poznań in 1997 during a scientific conference in which the representatives of all major Polish MAN's took part. Its target was to create a high-speed
WAN. During the experiment
Poznań,
Łódź and
Gdańsk
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were connected and the 34 Mbit/s
ATM network in a 622 Mbit/s
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environment has been created and since then called POL-34. Since its creation, POL-34 has been a purely
Internet Protocol network.
In the beginning, POL-34 used fiber-optic links leased from
TEL-ENERGO, a company founded by
State Power Companies,
Polish Power Networks
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and
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Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
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. At the same time, ever since its creation POL-34 was in the process of creating its own infrastructure. Today the Consortium owns all fiber-optic connections to major nodes.
In 1999 a project to extend the bandwidth of the network was proposed and POL-155 was created. Speed was expanded to 155 Mbit/s Asynchronous Transfer Mode between Gdańsk, Łódź and Poznań and a constant effort to create 155 Mbit/s links between smaller nodes was made.
In 2000 POL-34/155 and various other academic organisations set up a project of creating a 10 Gbit/s network within
GEANT project. Network called PIONIER is the result of that project.
Organization
Currently the network connects
Białystok
Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area.
Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...
,
Bielsko-Biała,
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...
,
Częstochowa
Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (admin ...
,
Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
,
Gliwice,
Kielce
Kielce (, yi, קעלץ, Keltz) is a city in southern Poland, and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the bank ...
,
Kraków,
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...
,
Łódź,
Opole
Opole (; german: Oppeln ; szl, Ôpole) ;
* Silesian:
** Silesian PLS alphabet: ''Ôpole''
** Steuer's Silesian alphabet: ''Uopole''
* Silesian German: ''Uppeln''
* Czech: ''Opolí''
* Latin: ''Oppelia'', ''Oppolia'', ''Opulia'' is a city loc ...
,
Poznań,
Puławy,
Radom,
Toruń,
Warsaw,
Wrocław,
Koszalin,
Szczecin
Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...
,
Olsztyn and
Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber. PIONIER's Network Operations Center is based in Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.
It has connections to various commercial networks, national research and education networks (
CESNET,
DFN,
SANET,
URAN[http://www.pionier.net.pl/online/pl/artykuly/1092/PIONIER_laczy_ze_Wschodem.html, pol.]), and is well integrated with the
GÉANT network.
Both POL-34/155 and PIONIER is operated by a consortium of 22 metropolitan area network operators and other educational institutions. Decisions within the consortium are made by
voting.
See also
*
Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.pionier.net.pl/
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center website
Internet in Poland
National research and education networks