The GÉANT project is a collaboration between 26 National Research and Education Networks representing 30 countries across Europe, the European Commission, and DANTE. Its principal purpose has been to develop the GÉANT network - a multi-gigabit pan-European data communications network, reserved specifically for research and education use.

The project also covers a number of other activities relating to research networking. These include network testing, development of new technologies, and support for some research projects with specific networking requirements.

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Why Does GÉANT Exist?
Europe is home to the largest and most diverse group of academic and scientific
researchers in the world. Collectively they produce terabytes of important data
every day. This data is crucial to academic research, and often needs to be
shared between researchers in different countries.

GÉANT reaches over 3,000 research and education institutions in over
30 countries through 28 national and regional research and education networks.
It provides the highest capacity and offers the greatest geographic coverage
of any network of its kind in the world. It allows more data to be stored, transmitted
and analysed than ever before. With GÉANT, researchers can make use of
advanced network applications and perform cutting-edge projects.

Without high-speed research networks like GÉANT, many research projects
at the forefront of their fields would simply not be possible.

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