KAREN partners

KAREN Partners play a vital role in extending the reach and richness of KAREN Membership. Learn more about our Partner programmes here.

Meet our:

Research and education partners

InternetNZ

InternetNZ works to keep the Internet open and uncaptureable, protecting and promoting the Internet for New Zealand.

"InternetNZ seeks to use KAREN for testing next generation Internet technologies such as IPv6, DNSSec and Multicast. KAREN provides a valuable environment in which to assess and analyse such protocols for live tests prior to launch on the open Internet.", Keith Davidson, Executive Director

New Zealand Supercomputing Centre

Content and service partners

TelstraClear

At TelstraClear we work with customers to find better ways for them to communicate at home and at work. We champion competition in New Zealand and deliver the benefits to our customer's doorstep - whether it's phone, internet, data or television.

"Being a service partner will promote a community of network users, ensuring the breadth and scope of KAREN’s services are fully utilised, and giving smaller customers the opportunity, choice and attractive pricing benefits while connecting to one of New Zealand’s most advanced high capacity broadband networks,” Mark Wilson, Head of Enterprise and Government, TelstraClear Ltd.

Objective Corporation

Objective Corporation works closely with enterprises of all sizes to help them unlock the value of their unstructured content.

"As the leading enterprise content management (ECM) solution provider in New Zealand, we are proud to support the high performance research and education network, KAREN. Objective’s ability to underpin the provision of services and content to the research and education community in New Zealand, demonstrates Objective’s distributed network capabilities", Tony Walls, CEO Objective Corporation

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Snap

Snap is the largest ISP based in the South Island, with over 15 years of experience in delivering Internet connectivity solutions, and points of presence at major centres across the country. Snap promotes and leverages regional and community-owned infrastructure where possible, and has significant experience in delivering broadband access solutions.

"Our activity in the sector means that we truly understand the requirements of research and educational institutes and we see KAREN as a huge motivator for the adoption of high-speed and next-generation connectivity solutions. KAREN is a great opportunity for these organisations, and Snap is proud to be an active advocate for its continued development and to act as an "enabler" for those wishing to leverage it," Jamie Cairns, CEO, Snap Internet.

Note: Snap currently provide network aggregations services off KAREN's Christchurch and Lincoln PoP only.

Network aggregators

Accredited Network Aggregators play an important function by delivering the power of KAREN to smaller Members who may not be able to support the capital and human investment in managing a core connection. An Aggregated Service is a combination of a connection (layer-2) service and a traffic management (layer-3) service. Aggregators can use their own, or any other compliant, connection (layer-2) service, such as an offering from a local open-access network provider.

FX Networks

FX Networks supplies high performance Internet and ethernet services to businesses and the ISP industry. FX Networks owns and operates a 30Gbps fibre optic backbone network throughout the North Island, with points of presence at major cities in the South Island (via partners).

"We're excited about being able to complement our high performance Internet service with access to KAREN and the 20,000 Research and Education networks worldwide. We think the total package makes advanced networking simpler for our customers. It's important to us also to work in such a collaborative fashion with the folks at KAREN, and we look forward to building on this important first step to further advance real next generation network services in this country together", Jamie Baddeley, GM Internet Services.

Kordia

Kordia™ has three centres of excellence, each designed to deliver the exact solution that customers want - broadcast, telecommunications and converged solutions. We have a solid track record of innovative, industry-recognised solutions, with the expert skills and curiosity to think - and deliver - outside the square. We own and operate a Next Generation Network telecommunications network used by many market-leading communications companies and internet service providers. We have a reputation as an expert and solid provider of nationwide customised solutions. Stretching far and wide into rural and provincial centres, this network forms the core of our telecommunications, broadcast and broadband solutions.

For further information, please contact matthew.jackson@kordia.co.nz

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Snap

Note: Snap currently provide network aggregations services off KAREN's Christchurch and Lincoln PoP only.

TelstraClear

"Being a network aggregator will promote a community of network users, ensuring the breadth and scope of KAREN’s services are fully utilised, and giving smaller customers the opportunity, choice and attractive pricing benefits while connecting to one of New Zealand’s most advanced high capacity broadband networks,” Mark Wilson, Head of Enterprise and Government, TelstraClear Ltd.

Technology partners

Endace

Endace is a world leader in network traffic monitoring technology. Endace provides network monitoring, latency measurement and application solutions to capture, inspect and report on every single data packet regardless of network type or speed.

“The partnership between Endace, REANNZ and the WAND group from Waikato University provides New Zealand with a fantastic opportunity to innovate and advance the boundaries of network performance measurement worldwide. Our history is based on years of research at leading universities and national

research institutes and we are thrilled to be participating in this space once again,” Mike Riley, CEO Endace.

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Updated: 3 April 2008