Ankabut

About Us

The Ankabut Project is jointly funded by the TRA through the ICT fund and by Khalifa University.

Ankabut interconnects universities with a 10G backbone and 1G access links.  It enables a closed community network that allows the transfer of real-time services such as converged IM, voice and video communication, time-critical services such as grid computing interconnect (cloud computing), non-real time services such as e-learning, email, library interconnect, off-site disaster recovery, global federated single-sign-on and Wi-Fi networking to name a few.

What does Ankabut do?

  • Connecting academia to advance IP networking
  • Establish a forum to discuss collaboration
  • Encourage collaborative research within the UAE
  • Provide a mechanism to share lectures
  • Encourage inter-library access
  • Increase collaboration with international universities
  • Connect international institutions to home networks
  • Enable applications on the IP network

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