At A Glance

Many of the services required by the REANNZ community are cost-prohibitive (or simply unavailable) on the commercial market.  Today, such services include schedule-able bandwidth, multi-domain circuits, flexible traffic engineering, IPv6 service and performance parity, and active multi-domain performance monitoring.  These are networking features that are required by members on top of core network bandwidth. As a not for profit company that acts in the bests interests of its community, REANNZ is able to provide these services that would otherwise be unavailable to members through the commercial market.

A number of science initiatives with large data requirements are being conducted that could not occur without the reach, reliability and speed of an advanced network. Examples include NeSI (National eScience Infrastructure), NZGL (New Zealand Genomics Limited which performs genome sequencing), and radio astronomy. All of these projects involve instrumentation that generates massive datasets. These datasets need to be transported quickly and accurately from the instruments to hosting or processing centres, and to the scientists performing the research.

REANNZ is the not-for-profit, Crown owned company that provides students, scientists, educators and innovative companies an ultra-fast broadband network for the free exchange of ideas and the transfer of knowledge.

We provide our community:

Connecting to the REANNZ network has reduced UCOL’s connectivity costs and improved productivity across two campuses. UCOL moved the “heavy hitters” out, they increased bandwidth between the two campuses and then they put in a sophisticated disaster recovery programme – all through REANNZ.

'Boy' and '1080 uptake in watercress and puha' - two topics of many from the celebrated MANU AO seminar series, supported by REANNZ.

A World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN – pronounced “woollen”) founded in New Zealand and connected through the REANNZ network is helping scientists around the world with their research.

New Zealand radio astronomers are using REANNZ’s global reach to prepare to participate in astronomical research of epic proportions. This research allows use to study supernovae, the birth of stars and supermassive black holes, which give clues to the early stages of evolution of the universe.

Biosecurity experts at Lincoln University, AgResearch and Landcare Research are using the REANNZ network to keep New Zealand free from foreign pests and diseases.

New Zealand scientists at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute are using the REANNZ network to revolutionalise the diagnosis and treatment of disease.