Several network access providers have enquired about the possibility of providing aggregation services, ie sharing a core KAREN connection with more than one end customer.  Such a service can be useful where customers do not have the funding available to purchase a 1Gb/s last mile connection or the required equipment to deal with the routing and other specifications of a core KAREN connection. 

New Zealand researchers are invited to submit a paper for APAC07, the APAC Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Computing, Grid Applications and eResearch to be held in Perth, Western Australia from Monday 8 to Friday 12 October 2007.

REANNZ has created a new ‘Enabled by KAREN’ logo for use by KAREN member organisations.

Through REANNZ's international partnership with Taiwanese network, TWAREN, and Singaporean Network, SingAREN, KAREN members now have improved access to their peers in these countries. KAREN recently signed Memoranda of Understanding with TWAREN and SingAREN confirming peering arrangements, and as a result widening the reach of KAREN and speeding up access to international collaboration partners in these countries.

Peering is an interconnection of separate networks or groups of networks allowing the exchange of traffic between network customers.

A call for papers has been issued for the 3rd Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) to be held in Phuket, Thailand, 27 - 29 November 2007.