# SANET

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National research and education network

Slovak Academic Network Abbreviation SANET Formation 2001 Legal status Association Headquarters Bratislava, Slovakia Region served Slovakia President of the Board of Directors Pavol Horváth Main organ General Assembly Website www.sanet.sk/

**SANET** (*Slovak academic network*) is the [national research and education networking](/source/National_research_and_education_network) organisation of [Slovakia](/source/Slovakia). The SANET association is a non-profit organisation whose members contribute to the operations of the network.[1][2] It is a member of [TERENA](/source/TERENA).

## Network services

The SANET network connects locations in 23 towns. The network infrastructure is based on leased [dark fibres](/source/Dark_fibre). The network topology is configured as two rings providing full resilience with a maximum delay of 5 ms. Connectivity to the domestic commodity Internet is realised through an [Ethernet](/source/Ethernet) link at 10 Gbit/s to the Slovak [Internet exchange](/source/Internet_exchange) point SIX located in the Computer Center of the [Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava](/source/Slovak_University_of_Technology_in_Bratislava). International connectivity is provided through cross-border dark fibres at 10 Gbit/s to the [ACOnet](/source/ACOnet) node in [Vienna](/source/Vienna), the [CESNET](/source/CESNET) node in [Brno](/source/Brno) and the [PIONIER](/source/PIONIER) node in [Bielsko-Biała](/source/Bielsko-Bia%C5%82a), as well as local links in [Bratislava](/source/Bratislava) to the [points of presence](/source/Points_of_presence) of [GÉANT](/source/G%C3%89ANT) (1 Gbit/s) and of GTS (2 Gbit/s).[3][4][5]

## Other services

Besides access to the SANET network, the European academic backbone network GÉANT and the global Internet, SANET provides web hosting, email hosting and [DNS](/source/DNS) hosting as services to its user community. SANET is also the National Roaming Operator for the worldwide [eduroam](/source/Eduroam) roaming service.[6] In 2011 SANET joined the [TERENA](/source/TERENA) Certificate Service, enabling the provision of server [certificates](/source/Digital_certificate) to its connected institutions.[7]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [*15 Years of SANET*](http://www.sanet.sk/buletin_sanet_en.pdf) (PDF). SANET. 2006. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["SANET in the 2012 edition of the Compendium of NRENs in Europe"](http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/2012/?nrenid=38). Retrieved 13 September 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["ACOnet - CESNET - SANET Triangle"](http://www.terena.org/news/fullstory.php?news_id=2030). 9 November 2006. Retrieved 14 September 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["SANET in the CEENet Infrastructure Knowledge Base"](http://wiki.ceengine.eu/SANET). Retrieved 12 September 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["SANET a small giant"](http://www.ceengine.eu/newsletter/issue6/). November 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["eduroam in Slovakia"](http://www.eduroam.sk/en/eduroam.shtm). Retrieved 13 September 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["SANET TCS"](https://tcs.sanet.sk/info/). Retrieved 12 September 2013.

## External links

- [Official website](https://www.sanet.sk/?page_id=2381)

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