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REANNZ Internet New Pricing

REANNZ delivers reduced Internet pricing to our members

At the outset of the REANNZ Internet service we committed to our membership that we would regularly review the price of the offering and pass on any savings. We have conducted a review of the service and are delighted to be able to offer reduced pricing to every new and subscribed member.

For more information on REANNZ Internet, how you can have this service delivered to you, and how you can benefit from an outstanding commodity Internet deal, see our website.

Did you know that REANNZ has a dedicated and growing team of network engineers available to help you get the most out of your connection and to support deliver of this service? If you are planning an internal network upgrade, have specific data to move between locations or are just looking to tune for speed contact us at operations@reannz.co.nz.

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Land Information NZ now on the REANNZ Network

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is connected to our network. 

LINZ is responsible for land titles, geodetic and cadastral survey systems, topographic information, hydrographic information and the management of Crown property. This new connectivity to the REANNZ Network allows REANNZ members access to LINZ’s charts, hydrographic services, maps and topographic services (the LINZ Data Service will be available later in the year).

For the REANNZ members who consume this wealth of data, this means no more shipping hard disks or USB sticks around the country, or the world. To make use of this connectivity, you do not have to do anything “special”, just go about your “usual” business activities, and enjoy the increased speeds this new connectivity allows.

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NeSI Roadshow Across the Country

How can the nation’s eScience Infrastructure benefit your research?

Join our partners, the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure team, at their roadshow around New Zealand.

NeSI Roadshow

Learn how your research can benefit from high performance computing (HPC) facilities. NeSI provides HPC and other services for researchers. The team will explain what services are available, how they help and how to access them.

For more information, or to contact the NeSI team see their website.

The REANNZ team will also be joining the roadshow, if you have any questions, or would like to meet us, please email.

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Kiwis to test and compare their Internet with the NZ Broadband Test

Today REANNZ is launching the New Zealand Broadband Test, a website that allows Kiwis to test and compare their broadband connection.

Hosted by REANNZ, nzbt.org.nz lets users test their broadband performance at home or work and helps you to choose between Internet Service Providers (ISPs). It also shows how much faster your internet could be as ultra-fast broadband becomes available.

nzbt.org.nz will allow users to compare their internet connection with our fellow Kiwis. Users can visit the site, test their broadband speed and performance and then choose to share their results (or not). You can then compare your internet performance with others throughout New Zealand on Google Maps.

“Internet connections can vary region to region and even neighbour to neighbour depending on your ISP, location and equipment,” says Steve Cotter, CEO of REANNZ. “This website will let Kiwis test and compare their current connection and can help others make an informed decision about which ISP to choose”.

This is a beta version of the website and so users are invited to provide feedback on what they would like to see in the next version.

nzbt.org.nz is based on a similar site (SPEBS, broadbandtest.eett.gr) created by the EETT, the Greek telecommunications regulator. Local Kiwi developers Rabid have adapted SPEBS for New Zealand. The open source platform means that the code can be used for free by others to develop, making it easy to create your own version, as REANNZ did for New Zealand.

The website uses Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open, distributed server platform on which researchers can host open source broadband measurement tools. One of these tools, NDT, provides the test that NZ users access each time they test via NZBT. M-Lab is a research consortium, with a goal of advancing network research and empowering consumers by providing useful, publicly available broadband measurement data across the globe. By enhancing Internet transparency, M-Lab helps sustain a healthy, innovative Internet.  Further details on M-Lab are available at www.measurementlab.net.

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REANNZ International Connectivity

Ever wondered if you can reach your international collaborators over the REANNZ Network?

This map shows you where we reach…

Networks are the common infrastructure that binds communities. At REANNZ, we form part of the research, education and innovation ecosystem, connecting participants in those sectors to each other and the world. Nearly all developed countries, and many developing countries, have a research network similar to REANNZ.

More information about our international connectivity can be found here, along with tools to see if your specific collaborator is on the other end of our network connections.

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NZ eResearch Symposium: Early Registration

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES NEXT FRIDAY 8 JUNE

Register before 11:59 pm Friday 8 June and you’ll receive the discounted early bird registration rate of $370 for full registration or $125 for students’ full registration.

Full registration includes entry to all symposium sessions on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 July, the Welcome Function on Wednesday 4 July and the Symposium Dinner at The Boatshed on Thursday 5 July. Full details about registration are available online: http://www.eresearch.org.nz/nzers2012-registration

PROGRAMME

We have an exciting line up of presentations, workshops and posters. Full details including presentation abstracts are available here: http://www.eresearch.org.nz/nzers2012-programme

WORKSHOPS

Three workshops will be held on Wednesday 4 July 2012, at the Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington. You may register for these workshops as part of your Symposium attendance or register for them separately.

Workshop 1: Building a cyber infrastructure for environmental acoustics research

Workshop 2: NZ HPC Applications Workshop

Workshop 3: Open Research in the New Zealand Context

For further details about each workshop please see here: http://www.eresearch.org.nz/nzers2012-presentations#Workshops

Keynote Speakers

The following keynote speakers have been confirmed:

  • Dr Cameron Neylon
  • Sayeed Choudhury
  • Simon Burrows
  • Nicole Coleman

For further details about each speaker please see here: http://www.eresearch.org.nz/nzers2012-keynotes

http://www.eresearch.org.nz/nz-eresearch-symposium-2012

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Workshop: Biosecurity Bonanza 2012

Find out about the latest research being undertaken to beat weeds and mammal pests.logo

Registrations are still open as there are a small number of seats available.

Date: Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Time: 9:30:00 a.m. – 5:00:00 p.m.
Location: Brentwood Hotel (1.9km from Airport)
16 Kemp St
Kilbirne
Wellington

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Recognising Engineering Excellence

INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY AWARD

 Initiated in 2005, the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards are the premier awards for the engineering professionals of New Zealand.

The awards are presented in three major areas:

Awards Recognising People, that recognise leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and our young engineers;

Project and Product Awards, that recognise achievement in the various industry areas, together with a Supreme Award for the best of the Project and Product winners; and

Practice Awards that recognise a product, programme, project or a person demonstrating the application of engineering  knowledge and skills to achieve excellence in safety, environmental protection or community engagement.

Entry is now open for these awards, further information and entry details can be found at www.nzeeawards.org.nz

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Software Defined Networking – The Openflow Bootcamp

Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) and REANNZ recognised the growing national interest in Openflow and worked together to provide an opportunity to gain practical hands on Openflow experience in the form of a Bootcamp.

Attendance

The Openflow Bootcamp was the direct result of an earlier Openflow Workshop where attendees indicated they wanted to participate in a “doing” exercise.  Twenty seven people attended VUW on the 7 May and twenty three got their hands dirty, one of the workshop attendees even came over from Australia.

 

What they did

Josh Bailey of Google led the day and provided an overview of Openflow before taking attendees to the computer lab. The attendees worked in small groups to do everything from configure switches from scratch, to compile, install, troubleshoot and run RouteFlow, to configure Quagga from woe to go. The groups were able to make five openflow controlled switches (one Pronto and four HPs) come up in a full mesh. The first person to successfully bring up a RouteFlow controlled switch was VUW’s Mark Davies.

 

REANNZ’s Sam Russell gave a talk on pyswitch and explained in great detail the problems with the example code (broken for more than 2 switches by default, etc) and how he fixed it. His talk was at the end of the day and it was very clear the audience were very familiar with the topic and followed Sam’s explanation easily.

 

Contributors

Thank you very much to HP for providing the switches (which basically worked with RouteFlow out of the box) and to VUW’s Radek and Mark for setting up the lab.  Finally, thank you to those who attended on the day and made the bootcamp such a success. There is now even more interest in Openflow here in NZ………

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UC Summer Scholarship for HIT Lab NZ projects

UC Summer Scholarship for HIT Lab NZ projects

The University of Canterbury have 11 scholarships available at the HIT Lab NZ for this summer. Each scholarship is worth $5,000 + relocation cost if you are living outside of Christchurch. (including Australia and the pacific region). The HIT Lab NZ will consider meeting the travel costs for applicants from other international locations.

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Period

Approximately 10 weeks(400 hours) starting from November 2011. The scholarships require a full time commitment during this period.

Eligibility

The scholarship will be offered to students who are considering enrolling at the University of Canterbury in 2012 to study at 400(honours) level or to enter a Masters or PhD programme. Students are not eligible to apply for a scholarship if they will be enrolled in courses for credit during the tenure of ths scholarship (in either summer school courses or as a masters or PhD students).

More information

Visit the HIT Lab website

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