RENATER, French Research and Education Network, was deployed in the early 90s in order to federate telecommunication infrastr ... uctures for Research and Education. The RENATER Group was launched in February 1993 to bring together telecommunication infrastructures for Technology, Education, and Research. The RENATER network aims to offer its members secure broadband network access and to provide high-performance collaborative services that are tailored to the needs of the community. More than 1000 sites are connected to RENATER via campus, metropolitan or regional networks. RENATER offers national and international connectivity, and evolves according to technologies’ improvements and available capacity infrastructure. The GIP RENATER also runs RENATER SFINX, Internet exchange point since 1995. read more