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Connectivity and Services for Higher Education

Connectivity and Services for Higher Education

FCCN provides high-performance connectivity services to the RCTS network and authentication and authorization services.

FCCN WAS BORN WITH FIRST SUPER COMPUTER IN PORTUGAL

FCCN WAS BORN WITH FIRST SUPER COMPUTER IN PORTUGAL

The chosen computer had a computing speed 20 times higher than the fastest scientific calculation computer available in Portugal at the time.

The European GÉANT Network

The European GÉANT Network

The GÉANT network is an extension of the national research and education networks connected to it, and in this sense, it is also one of the main destinations for communications made via RCTS.

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OUR SERVICES

High-performance connectivity services to the RCTS network and authentication and authorization services.

Ensures direct communication between all entities connected to the RCTS – Science, Technology and Society Network.

Access to advanced features by creating Ethernet VPNs.

High-performance connectivity, for the most demanding communication needs.

Optical fiber pair, without any intermediate active equipment.

Voice-over IP service from FCCN.

Wi-Fi roaming for academic and research communities worldwide.

Advanced computing, storage and data sharing services.

National Distributed Computing Infrastructure. Access to computational and storage resources.

Housing of computer equipment in a datacentre, with excellent connectivity.

Services that promote and facilitate the collaboration of the communities served, and promote scientific dissemination using multimedia solutions.

Used to conduct meetings, classes and tutorials over the Internet.

Used to broadcast live events worldwide over the Internet.

Space with professional equipment for the production of high definition audiovisual content.

Application used to send and temporarily store large files.

Services that ensure access to scientific information sources, both via open-access scheme and via subscriptions to prestigious journals. They also include formative coordination programs between information systems that support science and education activities.

Offers unlimited and permanent access to thousands of international scientific journals and e-books.

Scientific Open Access Repository of Portugal. Promotes access to scientific knowledge produced in Portugal.

This is a portal for searching for and accessing Web pages that have been preserved since 1996..

This allows you to record, edit and publish seminars, events and other educational content. It is possible to integrate this with e-learning systems.

ervices that give access to sources of scientific information, both via open access and via subscriptions to prestigious journals. It also includes formative coordination programs between information systems that support science and education activities.

Computer security incident response and system protection awareness.

Computer security incident response service, the source or target of which is RCTS.

Service that ensures the supply of several certificates to entities belonging to RCTS.

Authentication and authorization infrastructure that simplifies community access to web services.

Promotes the safe use of the Internet and the awareness of the associated risks.

FCCN

Supporting the Academic and Scientific Community of Portugal since 1987

EDUCAST

Educast is a video management service for simple recording, editing and distributing of lesson contents. The core system guarantees the post-processing required to render contents available for students, via the Internet and mobile devices, in several delivery formats: Streaming, Desktop and Mobile.

FCCN IN NUMBERS

22649

videos produced on Educast

30847

Colibri videoconferences in 2019

+32255

CIÊNCIAVITAE users

692

hours of video produced in our studio in 2019

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