About

Ankabut is the United Arab Emirates’ Advanced National Research and Education Network (NREN) offering academic institutions connectivity to other education networks around the world.  In addition to connecting universities, Ankabut can connect schools and public institutions together across the UAE with an effective cost model.  Ankabut also co-operates on a national, GCC, regional and international arena representing the UAE in conferences, exhibitions and forums.  Ankabut aims to offer QoS based networks with IPv4/IPv6, multicast and introduce advanced services on a “Closed Group Network” with “Public Interest Purposes”.

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.

Ankabut is jointly funded by the TRA through the ICT Fund and by Khalifa University who also manages the project.