SingAREN is 2️⃣1️⃣ year old!
12 Dec 2024 – The joyous dinner event was held at the Brotzeit @ VivoCity on 29 Nov 2024 with 50+ guests including our SingAREN’s members, friends, and industry partners.
A/Prof Francis Lee, President of SingAREN delivered a warm welcome speech. He updated the guests on SingAREN’s achievements in 2024 and plans for 2025. He also introduced the three (3) new SLIX members: SIT, SUTD, and NYP, who have joined SingAREN’s dark fiber connectivity since September 2024.
Mr Jon Lau, Vice-President of SingAREN, presided over the awards ceremony. Mr Quek Gim Pew, Chairman of the SLIX 2.0 Steering Committee, was invited to present Plaques of Appreciation to the three new SLIX partners in recognition of their significant contributions of domain knowledge and resources to enable SLIX dark fibre connectivity to their institutions.
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) – SingAREN has established a high-speed connectivity to SIT and redundancy for SIT’s campus in the Punggol Digital District.
Figure 1 (from left) Mr Chong Fook Weng, Associate Vice President, Chief Information Technology Officer represented SIT to receive the token of appreciation from Chairman, Mr Quek.
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) – SingAREN has enabled connectivity for SUTD with high bandwidth to National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, to facilitate the research and education activities in SUTD.
Figure 2 – (from left) Mr Ang Lek Han, Director of Information Technology received the SUTD’s Plaque from Chairman, Mr Quek.
Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) – SingAREN has enabled NYP’s high availability setup to Government on Commercial Cloud and Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Microsoft and Google). NYP is the first polytechnic to be part of the SLIX network.
Figure 3 – (from left) Mr Francis Lee, Assistant Director (ICT & Cloud Infrastructure), Digital Solutions and Services received the Plaque on behalf of NYP.
This year, SingAREN presented a special token of appreciation to Check Point Software Technologies Ltd for its valuable contribution to SingAREN’s competency development and delivery of differentiated services. Check Point has provided significant support to SingAREN for our POC projects such as Science DMZ, NDR, and technical training.
Figure 4 (on right) Ms Rebecca Law, Country Manager, Singapore to receive the token of appreciation from A/Prof Lee.
Figure 5 All of our guests, friends, and partners were here on this special occasion
Figure 6 A snapshot of happy faces at the dinner party.
SingAREN has remained dedicated to supporting Singapore’s research and education community for the past 21 years, and will continue to add value to its services in the years to come, including providing faster and more resilient connectivity to our users with more cyber-secured networks. SingAREN is thankful to National Research Foundation for funding its network infrastructure, SingAREN Lightwave Internet Exchange (SLIX) to enable network resiliency and scalability.
With each celebration, it is also our way of thanking our members, EXCO, partners, and technology partners who showed their immense support throughout our journey. It has been a fun night with good food in the presence of wonderful friends and partners !