PIONIER () is the Polish national research and education network used mainly by national and European academic institutions for scientific research, as well as for the development and testing of pilot information society services. PIONIER encompasses high-performance computing infrastructure and a growing network ecosystem with terabit capacities, offering services that support digital innovation and contributing to open science as part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative within the European Union. It has direct access to resources at several key traffic exchange points in Poland and abroad, including AMS-IX (100 Gbps), DE-CIX (100 Gbps), CIXP (100 Gbps) and (4×10 Gbps). PIONIER's Network Operations Center is based in Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.

It has connections to various commercial networks, national research and education networks (CESNET, DFN, SANET, URAN), and is well integrated with the GÉANT network.

Both POL-34/155 and PIONIER is operated by a consortium of 22 metropolitan area network operators and other educational institutions. Decisions within the consortium are made by voting.

See also

  • Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa

References

  • Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center website