HEAnet History Timeline
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1983
Formed as a collaborative endeavour between member institutions and began operation. -
1993 - 1997
Managed by UCD Computing Services under contract to HEAnet. -
1997
HEAnet becomes a founding member of INEX – The Internet Neutral Exchange with connections at 512 Kbps. HEAnet was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee. John Boland was appointed as the first HEAnet CEO. -
1998
Connectivity up to 2 Mbps and our first wireless connection delivered to DIAS (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies) -
2001
Established TransAtlantic connectivity to USA and beyond First HEAnet Conference -
2004
Connectivity up to 1 Gbps -
2005
First Schools connected under the Department of Education’s Schools Broadband Programme – targeting 1/2Mb to 2Mb. -
2008
Phased migration of IoTs from ITnet to the HEAnet network -
2010
Edugate, our national federated access solution which today supports 40 million authentications annually was launched. -
2012
Origins of the Brokerage Services Team, which now delivers in excess of €7m in savings for the sector annually. -
2012 - 2014
HEAnet managed the delivery of 100Mb/s connections to every post-primary school on behalf of the Irish government. -
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2020
HEAnet procured 16,700 laptops for students and launched the eduroam Everywhere project in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. -
2021
Ronan Byrne appointed as CEO. HEAnet and EduCampus were recognised as Best in Health & Wellbeing by InBusiness Recognition Awards 2021 run by Chambers Ireland. -
2022
Successful rollout of eduroam Wi-Fi in almost 500 new locations. First HEAnet client connected at 100Gbps -
2024