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Digital technologies for powering GLAM education outreach, research and preservation activities

Many of Australia’s state and national galleries, libraries, archives and museums - GLAMs - are connected to AARNet. We’re focused on co-developing services that enable the GLAM community to share and preserve their collections.

Solutions for GLAMs

AARNet Internet

Dedicated optical fibre directly to your institution. Fast, reliable, scalable and designed to support all your business-critical applications. AARNet internet connections are typically 1, 10 or 100 gigabits per second. We help you choose the bandwidth that's right for your needs.

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eduroam Wi-Fi

eduroam is a secure global roaming wireless network service for the research and education sector available to all AARNet customers. eduroam hotspots are available at thousands of locations across Australia and worldwide.

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Cloud Connect

Fast, reliable and secure direct private networks for connecting your organisation or institution to commercial cloud providers, including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

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DDoS Protection

DDoS Protection is a cost-effective solution for 24/7 proactive monitoring, detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks to safeguard your institution’s internet services, information and assets.

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Zoom Video Communications

The easy and reliable virtual classroom and meeting solution. Zoom provides seamless, high-definition video and web meetings for up to 100 participants to join, share and record content across all devices.

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Why AARNet?

Not-for-profit company
Trusted sector partner since 1989
Reliable ultra high-speed network
Services built for research and education

Projects and partnerships

We're collaborating with the GLAM community, academia, technology companies and our peer research and education networks worldwide to explore new and emerging technologies for digital preservation.

 
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Digital Preservation

We are a member of the Software Preservation Network, an international community advancing the practice of curating and preserving software. We also participate in the Digital Preservation Coalition, which is helping members deliver resilient long-term access to digital content and services, derive enduring value from digital assets and raise awareness of the cultural benefits.

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Australian Emulation Network

AARNet is proud to be a partner on the Australian Emulation Network: Accessing Born Digital Cultural Collections LIEF project, led by Swinburne University. ARNet’s infrastructure will underpin a national scale platform for digital preservation to be offered as a shared service for the benefit of academic and GLAM participants in the project.

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Related case studies

Read more about how the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sector is benefiting from AARNet network and collaboration solutions.

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Acmi bmd preservation lab

Collaborating to explore new ways of exhibiting and preserving digital media

AARNet’s high-performing low-latency network is enabling innovations in media, technology and user experience for museums.

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Sydney Kormoran

Visualising the story of Australia’s largest-ever naval loss

An ambitious project to create digital 3D reconstructions of shipwrecks for virtual underwater heritage museum experiences relies on the AARNet network for the transfer of huge volumes of data from the research lab to supercomputer.

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Endangered koalas

Helping researchers save endangered koalas

Connectivity to AARNet enables easy sharing of DNA sequencing data and fast access to cloud computing services for the Koala Genome project collaborators, boosting research outcomes.

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