HEAnet, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 17 relations: Company limited by guarantee, Cyberinfrastructure, Debian, Dublin, Education in the Republic of Ireland, Higher Education Authority, Institutes of technology in the Republic of Ireland, Irish Centre for High-End Computing, National research and education network, Oireachtas, Republic of Ireland, SourceForge, State-sponsored bodies of the Republic of Ireland, Teleconference, TERENA, Third-level education in the Republic of Ireland, Ubuntu.

2. Internet in Ireland
3. Internet mirror services

Company limited by guarantee

A company limited by guarantee (CLG) is a type of company where the liability of members in the event the company is wound up is limited to a (typically very small) amount listed in the company's articles or constitution.

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Cyberinfrastructure

United States federal research funders use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services distributed over the Internet beyond the scope of a single institution.

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Debian

Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software and optionally non-free firmware or software developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Education in the Republic of Ireland

Education in the Republic of Ireland is a primary, secondary and higher (often known as "third-level" or tertiary) education.

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The Higher Education Authority (HEA), officially An tÚdarás um Ard-Oideachas, is the statutory body providing policy advice for higher education in Ireland.

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Institutes of technology in the Republic of Ireland

An Institute of Technology (IT) is a type of higher education college found in Ireland. HEAnet and Institutes of technology in the Republic of Ireland are education in the Republic of Ireland.

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Irish Centre for High-End Computing

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) is the national high-performance computing centre in Ireland.

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National research and education network

A national research and education network (NREN) is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country. HEAnet and national research and education network are national research and education networks.

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Oireachtas

The Oireachtas, sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann, is the bicameral parliament of Ireland.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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SourceForge

SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software.

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A State-Sponsored Body is the name given in Ireland to a state-owned enterprise (a government-owned corporation), that is to say, a commercial business which is beneficially owned, either completely or majority, by the Irish Government.

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Teleconference

A teleconference or telecon is a live exchange of information among several people remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system.

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TERENA

The Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA) was a not-for-profit association of European national research and education networks (NRENs) incorporated in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. HEAnet and TERENA are national research and education networks.

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Third-level education in the Republic of Ireland

Third-level education in the Republic of Ireland includes all education after second-level, encompassing higher education in universities and colleges and further education on Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) and other courses.

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Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software.

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See also

Internet in Ireland

• .ie
• Broadband in Northern Ireland
• Eirpac
• Forth magazine
• HEAnet
• ITnet
• Internet Neutral Exchange
• Internet in Northern Ireland
• Internet in the Republic of Ireland
• Irish Internet Hotline

Internet mirror services

• AARNet
• BELNET
• CARNET
• Deutsches Forschungsnetz
• EENet
• FUNET
• GARR
• HEAnet
• Internode (ISP)
• Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• National Center for High-Performance Computing
• NetCologne
• RESTENA
• RedIRIS
• SUNET
• Superb Internet
• Switch (company)
• University of Kent
• University of Technology Malaysia
• Western Australian Internet Exchange

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEAnet

Also known as HEAnet Limited, Heanet.ie, Ptr.edu.ie.