The National Education and Research Network (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP) is the Brazilian infrastructure of advanced network for collaboration and communication in the fields of teaching and research. It connects more than 250 Brazilian institutions among them and with foreign institutes, making it possible for people and resources to interact through advanced applications. Besides connecting all federal institutions of higher education and research, this infrastructure, also called Ipê network, provides a testbed for the experimental development of new applications and network services for the benefit of its users.
Ipê maintenance and updating is supported by the Inter-ministerial Program of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology (Programa Interministerial dos Ministérios da Educação e da Ciência e Tecnologia - PI-MEC/MCT), through a contract signed between the RNP Association and the Ministry of Science and Technology. Besides receiving public resources, RNP gathers private resources by means of projects with computer science enterprises and other organizations.
Nelson Simões - nelson@rnp.br
Eduardo Grizendi - eduardo.grizendi@rnp.br