Research and Education Network

    	SINGAREN is an advanced network for research & education, and for the testing
    	of leading-edge broadband technologies. Its initial start-up is jointly funded by the
    	Telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS) and the National 
   	Science and Technology Board (NSTB), and its key objective is to support the
    	research and education (R&E) community, which includes all the tertiary institutes
    	and the R&D institutes in Singapore. SINGAREN operates as a virtual private
    	network over the Singapore ONE infrastructure, where each member in the R&E
    	community is expected to upgrade its own internal network and establish
  	broadband connectivity to SINGAREN.

	APAN is a non-profit international consortium established on 3 June 1997. 
	APAN is intended to be a high-performance network for research and 
	development on advanced applications and services. 
	APAN provides advanced networking environment for research community, 
	and promotes international collaboration.  

	Telematics for Research is a sector within the Telematics Applications 
	Programme to support the development and demonstration of innovative 
	applications to enhance European
	collaborative research through deployment of telematics. 
 

	The Internet2 project, as it is known, is bringing focus, energy and 
	resources to the development of a new family of advanced applications to 
	meet emerging academic requirements in research, teaching and learning. 
  	The largest part of the Internet2 team is the people at the over 100 
	member  universities who are developing the advanced network applications and
	engineering that form the foundation of Internet2s mission and goals. They
	are working with organizations that have joined the Internet2 effort as 
	corporate partners and affiliate members.
	Applications and engineering working groups have been formed to address
  	specific areas of Internet2