From Thursday 14 August 2025, CWI and the NLnet Foundation present the first public connection to SCION in the Netherlands - a new and more secure network architecture. Come check out the demo in the library!
SCIERA - Academic network built for security, resilience, and control
Connection to the path-aware SCION Education, Research and Academic Infrastructure (SCIERA)
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CWI is connected to SCIERA, the SCION Education, Research and Academic Infrastructure, currently maintained by prof.dr. David Hausheer and others from OVGU Magdeburg, using infrastructure provided by GÉANT, the collaboration of European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).
Watch Prof. David Hausheer's presentation on SCIERA
SCION is a clean-slate Internet architecture designed to provide route control, failure isolation, and explicit trust information for end-to-end communication.
Benefits:
- Faster and more secure network
- The possibility to avoid routing traffic through unwanted parts of the network
- The possibility to apply policies, e.g. to implement data protection legislation
- Reducing the attack surface for DDoS attacks
- More control over the governance of networks
Credit: SCION Association
Read more?
See CWI's news item 'NLnet and CWI present first public SCION connection in the Netherlands and an interview on the SCION demo with Hans-Dieter Hiep at NLnet.
More information on SCION projects in the Netherlands can also be found via NLnet.
Visitor information with opening times can be found on the CWI Library homepage.
Leave a message! Are you a CWI researcher and do you want to experiment with this architecture? Let us know!
