INTRODUCTION

CERNET Backbone Network

CNGI-CERNET2 Backbone Network

The China Education and Research Network-CERNET was built in 1994. It was supported and constructed by Chinese government; and the Ministry of Education is responsible for the management. Tsinghua University and other top universities are responsible for the construction and operation of the CERNET backbone.

With the support of government agencies, domestic cooperation organizations, all sectors of the society and with the efforts of universities and all scientific and technological personnel who have been undertaking the construction and operation tasks, CERNET started from scratch, developed from small to large and became the largest national academic network in the world. It is also an important infrastructure of educational informatization in China and an integral part of national informatization infrastructure.

Since 2003, CERNET has united more than 100 universities to participate in the China Next Generation Internet demonstration project-CNGI which has been approved by the State Council and organized jointly by the State Development and Reform Commission and other eight ministries and commissions, building the largest core network of CNGI-CERNET2/6IX, making important breakthrough in the key technologies of next generation Internet. CNGI-CERNET2/6IX has become the important infrastructure supporting next generation Internet technology research, application development and industry evolution.