Title :
Optical infrastructure for schools in Slovakia - history of development
Author_Institution :
Slovak Acad. Network Assoc., Slovakia
Abstract :
Summary form only given. The article describes short history of development of SANET network optical infrastructure for research and education. The current status, new trends and future perspective of optical infrastructure for schools in Slovakia will be presented. The Slovak Academic Network - SANET has been built in frame of SANET II project and the network covers all Slovak universities and scientific institution in 27 Towns. The communication technology which is used is fully based on dark fibre. Several project running on the optical infrastructure. Start with the access to grid and installed supercomputer with MPP on the SANET network infrastructure. Also running project “SANET to schools” witch make possible 1 Gbps connection to more than 600 secondary schools will be presented.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer networks; educational institutions; optical fibre communication; SANET network optical infrastructure; Slovak Academic Network; Slovakia; communication technology; dark fibre; scientific institution; secondary school; supercomputer; university; Conferences; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; History; Integrated optics; Optical fibers;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging eLearning Technologies & Applications (ICETA), 2012 IEEE 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Stara Lesna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5120-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICETA.2012.6418609
