SUNET is the Swedish University Computer Network. SUNET provides high-speed Internet access to academic institutions in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. The current incarnation of the network, Sunet C, provides 100 Gbit/s links between the cities hosting universities. It replaces the older network, OptoSunet, based mainly on 10 and 40 Gbit/s links. SUNET's upstream network is the Nordic

NORDUnet NORDUnet is an international collaboration between the national research and education networks in the Nordic countries. Members The members of NORDUnet are: * SUNET of Sweden * UNINETT of Norway * FUNET of Finland * Forskningsnettet of D ...

. SUNET is governed by a board appointed by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). In addition to the board there is a technical reference group and a development group, as well as people working at the participating universities. SUNET did operate one of Sweden's largest FTP archives, mirroring extensive useful material of 'academic' interest, similar to the UK Mirror Service hosted by the

University of Kent The University of Kent (formerly the University of Kent at Canterbury, abbreviated as UKC) is a Collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom. The university was granted its roya ...

. The service ftp.sunet.se is now hosted by Academic Computer Club at Umeå university. Before the service was down sized and control of the domain was handed over to ACC, the service could handle more than 10,000

concurrent user In computer science, the number of concurrent users (sometimes abbreviated as CCU) for a resource in a location, with the location being a computing network or a single computer, refers to the total number of people simultaneously accessing or usi ...

s. SUNET, together with Sprint and TeliaSonera, took part in a 40 Gbit/s transmission on a single

wavelength In physics and mathematics, wavelength or spatial period of a wave or periodic function is the distance over which the wave's shape repeats. In other words, it is the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the same ''phase (waves ...

between

Luleå Luleå ( , , locally ; ; ) is a Cities in Sweden, city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the County Administrative Boards of Sweden, capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban ...

and

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

using TAT-14.

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SUNET websiteSUNET FTP archiveVetenskapsrådet
Education in Sweden Internet in Sweden Internet mirror services National research and education networks {{compu-network-stub

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