· Overview

On Jan 12, 2004, GLORIAD ( Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development ) was initialized in Beijing, which is jointly funded by CAS, NSF and CRMSO (the Consortium of Russian Ministries and Science Organizations), driven directly by the requirements from scientists and science applications in China, US and Russia. CSTNET joined in GLORIAD as GLORIAD-CN since then.

GLORIAD is offering strong supports for advanced S&E applications and NGI (Next Generation Internet) research, particularly in High Energy Physics, Astronomy, Atmospheric Sciences, Bioinformatics, optical network research and network security research

GLORIAD is the first global high-speed network around the north hemisphere and will not only serve for scientists of the joint members, but also become a platform for scientists across the world. At present, GLORIAD has been extended to Korea , Netherlands , Canada and five countries in north Europe ( Finland , Iceland , Sweden , Norway and Denmark ).

· Milestones

---- In1998, US-Russia initialed NaukaNet that was 7sponsored by Russian Min&Sci Organization and NSF of US. NaukaNet was finished in fall 2003, with bandwidth of 155M .

----On January 12 , 2004, GLORIAD Grand Opening Ceremony was held in Beijing . LITTLE GLORIAD was founded by China , US and Russia , with mutual link about 155 -622M .

----On September 2005, Canada , Netherlands and Korea joined in BIG GLORIAD.

----On July 2006, Finland , Iceland , Sweden , Norway and Denmark in North of Europe joined in GLORIAD.

----Going on

GLORIAD Grand Opening Ceremony, CAS Headquarter, January 12, 2004

Grand Opening for Big GLORIAD, Korea, September 5, 2005