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class="col-lg-12 col-md-12"><div class="row"></div></div></div></div><div class="herald-section container herald-no-sid " id="herald-section-2"><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12"><div class="row"><div class="herald-module col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12" id="herald-module-2-0"><div class="herald-txt-module"><div class="mks_separator" style="height: 1px;"></div><h4 style="text-align: center; font-weight: 600;">GÉANT interconnects Europe's national research and education networks (NRENs) with the high bandwidth, high speed and highly resilient pan-European backbone – together connecting Europe's researchers, academics and students to each other, and linking them to over half the countries in the world</h4><div class="mks_separator" style="height: 1px;"></div></div></div><div class="herald-module col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-sm-3" id="herald-module-2-1"><div class="herald-txt-module"><h3 style="text-align: center;">Data Carried</h3><p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px; padding-top: 20px; margin-bottom: -10px;"><picture><source srcset="https://network.geant.org/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/2021/08/Petabytes_icon_v5.png.webp" type="image/webp"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2806 webpexpress-processed" src="https://network.geant.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Petabytes_icon_v5.png" alt=""></picture></p><h1 style="text-align: center; color: #e10043; font-weight: 700; font-family: 'arial'; ">7<sup>PB</sup></h1><p style="text-align: center;">7 Petabytes of data carried per day</p></div></div><div class="herald-module col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-sm-3" id="herald-module-2-2"><div class="herald-txt-module"><h3 style="text-align: center;">Traffic Growth</h3><p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 70px; padding-top: 20px; margin-bottom: -10px;"><picture><source srcset="https://network.geant.org/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/2021/08/traffic_growth_icon_v4.png.webp" type="image/webp"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2805 webpexpress-processed" src="https://network.geant.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/traffic_growth_icon_v4.png"></picture><h1 style="text-align: center; color: #e10043; font-weight: 700; font-family: 'arial'; ">+30%</h1><p style="text-align: center;">Average annual increase in network traffic over last five years</p></div></div><div class="herald-module col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-sm-3" id="herald-module-2-3"><div class="herald-txt-module"><h3 style="text-align: center;">Backbone Capacity</h3><p style="text-align: center; padding-top: 20px; margin-bottom: -10px;"><picture><source srcset="https://network.geant.org/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/2021/08/terabytes_iocn.png.webp" type="image/webp"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2807 webpexpress-processed" src="https://network.geant.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/terabytes_iocn.png"></picture></p><h1 style="text-align: center; color: #e10043; font-weight: 700; font-family: 'arial'; ">8<sup>Tb</sup></h1><p style="text-align: center;">Up to 8 Terabits per second backbone capacity</p></div></div><div class="herald-module col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-sm-3" id="herald-module-2-4"><div class="herald-txt-module"><h3 style="text-align: center;">Availability</h3><p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 20px; margin-bottom: -10px;"><picture><source srcset="https://network.geant.org/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/2021/08/availability_icon-1.png.webp" type="image/webp"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2808 webpexpress-processed" src="https://network.geant.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/availability_icon-1.png"></picture></p><h1 style="text-align: center; color: #e10043; font-weight: 7 00; font-family: 'arial'; ">99.999%</h1><p style="text-align: center;"> Average availability</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="herald-section container herald-no-sid " id="herald-section-3"><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12"><div class="row"><div 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