Asia-Pacific Europe Ring (AER)
Co-operative arrangement between eleven leading-edge Research and Education Networks (RENs) with 100G connectivity between Europe and Asia to provide back up for each other in the event of any link failure, thereby creating an extremely robust and resilient 100G network ring, to advance research and education across the Asia-Pacific and Europe region.
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AER Diagram
Updated on 9th Jun 2026
Cable Maintenance Status
| Cable Owner | Cable System | A-End | Z-End | Type | Start Date | Expected End Date |
| KAUST | TGN-EA | Thuwal | Singapore | Fibre Cut | 9-Sep-2025 | N.A. |
| KISTI | APG | Korea | Singapore | Fibre Cut | 17-Oct-2025 | N.A. |
| KISTI | AAE-1 | Amsterdam | Singapore | Fibre Cut | 21-Oct-2025 | N.A. |
Press Release
- Fast, Redundant, Resilient: ITER–Japan Proves the Power of AER at 100 Gbps
24 Oct 2025 (updated) – Recently, the ITER project and the Broader Approach’s QST network teams carried out a series of high-speed data transfer tests between the ITER Marseille Data Transfer Node (DTN) and the JA REC facility in Japan, …Read more “Fast, Redundant, Resilient: ITER–Japan Proves the Power of AER at 100 Gbps”
- AER Members Supported NICT 800Gbps High-Speed Data Transfer Experiment At SC24
30 Dec 2024 – The AER members played an important role in enabling the high-speed transfers In the recent SuperComputing 2024 Conference held in Atlanta Georgia on 17 – 22 Nov 2024. NICT conducted a high-speed 800 Gbps data transfer …Read more “AER Members Supported NICT 800Gbps High-Speed Data Transfer Experiment At SC24”
- Enabling Resilient Network Connectivity via Collaborations by Global NRENs
NREN partners provide network traffic backup paths via the Asia-Pacific Europe Ring (AER) collaboration, enabling an extremely robust and resilient network ring 14 Jun 2024 – Network communication connectivity between Asia and Europe are mainly by submarine cables passing through …Read more “Enabling Resilient Network Connectivity via Collaborations by Global NRENs”
- Interview by SURF – Prof. Francis Lee, President, SingAREN
Prof. Francis Lee had an interview with SURF. He highlighted the importance of the collaboration and partnership under the Asiapacific-Europe Ring (AER). AER is a cooperative arrangement for leading-edge Research and Education Networks (RENs) with 100G connectivity between Europe and Asia …Read more “Interview by SURF – Prof. Francis Lee, President, SingAREN”
- Enabling Innovation in Global Medical Care through Robotic Telesurgery Trial conducted across International Boundaries
SingAREN, with international and local partners, enabled the first remote robot telesurgery trial between Japan and Singapore 20 Oct 2023 – NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) and National University Hospital (NUH) collaborated with Fujita Health University …