Esnet by numbers
- Connects 50 national laboratories, user installations and other scientific instruments.
- Connects the main installations to 800 GBPS, 100 times faster than commercial fibers (8 Gbit / s). Some sites have 1.6 tbps or faster connections.
- ESNET scientific data flows can use full bandwidth – no limits or ceilings.
- ESNET moves more than 1.7 exooctet of data per year – the equivalent of 304 million HD films.
Funded by the American Ministry of Energy Ministry (DOE) and managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Energy Sciences Network (ESNET) was created in 1986 to provide high -performance network connectivity dedicated to DOE researchers.
These days, ESNET connects tens of thousands of researchers funded by the DOE in the United States and Europe, including in the 17 national laboratories and 28 “user installations”-the first scientific instruments and the Centers of SuperCompartis de Doe. The ESNET network, with 400 GBPS or more backbone speeds, allows employees to move huge data sets – 1.7 Total value exubytes in 2024 – large distances at lightning speed, accelerating the discovery time.
Esnet not only offers rapid data, but also highly specialized services and innovative applied research, in particular experimental test bed,, Wireless advanced prototypes for field research,, AI for operationsand a Quantum network test bench with three nodes. Thanks to its codesign partnerships, with its scientific users, ESNET supported the breakthroughs of the Nobel Prize in the discovery of the Higgs Boson to the co-discovery of CRISPR-CAS9, a revolutionary genetic engineering technology.