RESTENA
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| Abbreviation | RESTENA Foundation |
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| Formation | 27 July 2000 |
| Legal status | Foundation |
| Purpose | To provide network services for all public and private institutions and organisations involved in the field of education, research, culture, health and administration, providing them with cutting-edge solutions for their communications needs |
| Headquarters | Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
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Region served
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Luxembourg |
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President
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Georges Alff |
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Main organ
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Administrative Council |
| Website | www |
RESTENA (Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche) is the very high speed network for the education and research community of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Operational since 1989 and connected to the global Internet in 1992, the network is today deployed and operated by the RESTENA Foundation. Set up in 2000, the Foundation brings together all types of research and teaching bodies, as well as the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of Finance. The Foundation also coordinates Internet resources nationally. It operates the domain name registry for the .lu domain, and participates actively in the operations of the Internet exchange point LU-CIX.
RESTENA offers eligible institutions and establishments in the field of education, research, culture, health and administration Internet access as well as connectivity to GÉANT and the Luxembourg Internet Exchange. A point-to-point connection service is available for institutions to interconnect remote sites via a virtual private network (VPN); those links are implemented via DWDM lambdas or Ethernet VLAN. Connected institutions can benefit from a range of network management services, such as configuration of data communications equipment and monitoring of the connection facilities between the institution and the national backbone. A secure Web interface allows the institution's connectivity performance to be monitored and evaluated. Service availability (www, mail, etc.) is watched and the status is notified by email or SMS.
The domain name service includes provision of recursive, authoritative DNS servers for all domain names required by the institutions.
The service allows synchronising the clocks of all computer and network equipment. This service is available to connected institutions and individual users.
A pool of public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses is available for allocation to connected institutions.
The ADSL service provides continuous, unlimited access at high speeds to all national RESTENA network services, and to the Internet and GÉANT. Dialup access via ISDN or analog modem gives less demanding users access to network services.
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