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29 Nov. 2021

DMPonline.be supports researchers in creating data management plans

From 1 January 2022, Belnet will take over the management of DMPonline.be from the DMPbelgium Consortium. This tool allows researchers to draw up, manage and share digital data management plans. Some twenty universities, colleges and research centres already use DMPonline.be.

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Community

Announcement

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13 Jul. 2020

How a typo puts tens of thousands of certificates at peril

Last week, DigiCert, the former Belnet certificate provider, announced that it should revoke its EV certificates. This announcement had a major impact on Belnet but also on many organizations in its community. Why did DigiCert have to take this drastic step?

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service update

28 May. 2023

MDQ service: a new functionality for simplified access to specific metadata

The volume of aggregated metadata in the Belnet R&E Federation has grown steadily in recent years. This volume can mean some slowness or unnecessary consumption of bandwidth for your organisation's use of certain SP/IdP. This is why our Services team has set up MDQ service, a system that allows you to easily aggregate metadata specific to an SP/IdP.

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17 Apr. 2023

OCRE : cloud services for the R&E community

OCRE (Open Clouds for Research Environnents) is a European framework agreement coordinated by GÉANT that allows your organisation to access different cloud solution offerings (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS...) from a variety of vendors and service providers.

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service update

6 Apr. 2023

A wide range of cloud services now available to governments and public services

Governments and public services connected to Belnet can now benefit from the OCRE Cloud Catalogue. This agreement allows your organisation to access different Cloud solution offerings (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS...) from a range of vendors and service providers.

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service update

23 Mar. 2023

FileSender usage on the rise

FileSender is a simple and secure tool for quickly sending large files of up to 5 TB, which students, researchers and employees of organisations that are part of the Belnet R&E Federation can use free of charge. User figures show that FileSender is one of the top services in our range. In fact, nearly 1 million files were downloaded via FileSender last year.

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Announcement

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14 Mar. 2023

Belnet concludes framework agreement with Telenet Business for WAN connectivity

As part of its new connectivity strategy, Belnet launched a large-scale public tender in 2021. This aimed at concluding a five-year framework agreement with a single contractor that will provide WAN connectivity for federal government services.

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Network

Announcement

service update

27 Feb. 2023

Belnet FedSender is now available to all federal organisations and public services

From January 2023, your institution, whether or not it is a G-Cloud member, can access Belnet FedSender thanks to Belnet's implementation of a discovery service that directs to your authentication system.

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Network

service update

17 Feb. 2023

Grégory Degueldre, Network Architect, tells us more about the new anti-DDoS solution

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Interview

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Security

27 Jan. 2023

A complete redesign for Belnet R&E Federation's management tool

The Belnet R&E Federation platform has been completely rewritten to optimise your experience. Discover, right now, the new features that will help you effortlessly upload, correct and validate your institution's metadata.

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