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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.

Your URL shortener, viaBel.net, has recently been updated. New features and a redesigned platform are now available so that R&E community members can securely create and manage all their shortened URLs in no time.

Facilitate the reception of your visitors thanks to Belnet guestroam. Our technical team has recently improved this roaming service by optimising the management of your departments/visitors and enabling simplified and faster usage by your validators.

On 9 September, our Belnet Storage service was migrated to an even more advanced cloud storage solution. A new interface and new features are now available to meet your data storage needs.

As of June 1, Belnet will be hosting eduVPN. eduVPN offers secure access to protected services when accessing from outside your institution's network.

From 1 April, discover our new Belnet Advanced DNS Security service, an DNS protection service on the cutting edge of cybersecurity available to all organisations connected to our network.

As we come to the end of the year, it's time for our editorial team to take stock of 2021; a year, once again, rich in a wide variety of topics and articles. This summary will give you an overview, in chronological order, of the most read and clicked articles in our newsletter.

Recently, one of our customers experienced a targeted volumetric DDoS attack. The attack was successfully mitigated by our DDoS Mitigation Service, but became so powerful at a certain point that some of the Belnet network's uplinks became saturated.