Case studies

What role do particulate matter and clouds play in global warming? That is what a Dutch-developed measurement instrument aboard a new NASA climate satellite is investigating. The data gets processed and stored at SURF and made available to science.

Groninger Forum moves to new building and chooses SURFwireless to manage their wifi network. A pilot with SURF shows that the service can also successfully optimise and unburden existing networks.

Open source software allows programmers worldwide to collaborate on the code of a particular product. Through GitHub, that new code spreads super fast in both the profit and non-profit sectors. That idea inspired medical lecturer Stijn Bos. Can we set up a similar community for medicine education, with open and online educational resources and where users and publishers build on each other's work?

It is common knowledge that you only really master lesson material when you are able to explain it to another person. How can you make use of that idea in such a way that students also build on each other's knowledge? That question led to the new teaching method: Le-Do-Loop.

Internet of things (IoT) is here to stay. More and more devices need internet access via Wi-Fi to function. They also notice this at the University of Amsterdam and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.

How does iotroam connect various devices, such as robots and sensors, to an institution's network? Network administrator Dave van Roy of Summa College explains.

In this practical example, you can read what the LDE alliance uses eduID for.

What if research data serve multiple purposes, and need to be stored in different places, when local facilities are not sufficient for this purpose? Erwin van Wieringen explains how SURF's Storage scale-out provides a suitable solution for RIVM.