BELNET

{{Short description|Belgian Internet Provider}} {{Primary sources|date=March 2009}} {{Infobox organization | name = Belnet | abbreviation = | image = Belnet logo.svg | image_border = | image_size = | image_alt = Belnet Logo | formation = 1993 | purpose = | headquarters = Brussels, Belgium | status = Public service with separate management within the Federal Public Service for Science Policy Programming (since 2000) | region_served = Belgium | leader_title = Chairman of the Management Committee | leader_name = Pierre Bruyère | main_organ = Management Committee | website = {{URL|http://www.belnet.be}} }}

'''Belnet''' (the Belgian National research and education network) is a Belgian internet provider for educational institutions, research centres, scientific institutes and government services.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.belnet.be/en/about-us/who-are-we |title=Who are we? |publisher=Belnet.be |date= |accessdate=2013-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813143202/http://www.belnet.be/en/about-us/who-are-we |archive-date=2013-08-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=1 in 3 Flemish cities and municipalities 'cannot guarantee services' due to internet problems |url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/89311/1-in-3-flemish-cities-and-municipalities-cannot-guarantee-services-due-to-internet-problems-flanders-online-it-networks-belnet-infrax-limburg-antwerp-flemish-brabant-west-flanders-howest-kulak-vives/ |accessdate=4 July 2020 |work=The Brussels Times |date=14 January 2020}}</ref> Since 1993, BELNET provides web services to higher education, federal departments and ministries and international organisations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home {{!}} Belspo |url=http://www.belspo.be/ |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=www.belspo.be}}</ref>

Since 2001, Belnet provides IPv6 connectivity and multicast access to its customers.

One of Belnet's FTP servers is a mirror for holding several files related to the FOSS and GNU communities, as well as Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, and Fedora.

Since 2004, Belnet is the operator of BEgrid, the Belgian research grid infrastructure,<ref>{{cite web |title=Announcement - Belgian research grid connects to world-wide grid |publisher=Belnet.be |date=22 November 2005 |url=http://www.begrid.be/index.php?module=filecabinet&id=7 |access-date=8 March 2010 |archive-date=6 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706132714/http://www.begrid.be/index.php?module=filecabinet&id=7 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and since 2009 it is also the operator of the BEgrid Portal (based on P-GRADE Portal technology).

On 4 and 5 May 2021, Belnet was subject to a massive DDOS attack that disrupted the accessibility of websites using the .be domain, including those of the Belgian government, parliament, police, educational and research institutions, health care, and public broadcasters,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/167930/belgian-government-websites-down-after-ddos-attack/ |title=Belgian government websites down after DDoS attack |date=4 May 2021 |website=The Brussels Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/justice-belgium/168009/tbtb-ddos-attack-belnet-belgian-government-websites-still-under-cyberattack/ |website=The Brussels Times| date=5 May 2021 |title=Belgian government websites still under cyberattack |author=Helen Lyons}}</ref> forcing the postponement of parliamentary hearings relating to Uyghur genocide.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Cyberattaque: annulation forcée à la Chambre des auditions sur le Xinjiang |url=https://www.lesoir.be/370172/article/2021-05-04/cyberattaque-annulation-forcee-la-chambre-des-auditions-sur-le-xinjiang |author=Véronique Kiesel |date=4 May 2021 |newspaper=Le Soir |language=fr}}</ref>

==References== <references/>

==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.belnet.be/en/ }} *[http://www.cisco.com/web/BE/press/pdfs/Belnet_0904_FR.pdf Cisco et BELNET accélèrent le trafic Internet belge] *[http://www.residencepalace.be/repository/news/e98/fr/e98e8a2f99a7b8896512b092196de45f-fr.pdf BELNET développe les services de protection informatique] *[http://www.gridguide.org/gridguide_content.php?id_ge=31 Gridguide : BELNET] *[http://www.begrid.be BEGrid] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325143338/http://www.begrid.be/ |date=2008-03-25 }} *[https://visual.ly/users/mari57/portfolio BEmads] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100908141606/http://portal.p-grade.hu/ P-GRADE Portal]

Category:Internet in Belgium Category:Internet mirror services Category:Internet service providers of Belgium Category:National research and education networks