The aim of the SANET2 project is to build up a gigabit network for the Slovak academic and research community with the connection to a transeuropean gigabit network and gloval Internet.

The SANET2 network will give possibility to use high-speed data network in the area of science, research and education, enable access to information sources in the European Union and the Slovak Republic and support the new services such as computer conferencing, distant education, medical consulting centers etc. In the terms of SANET2 project, metropolitan data networks will be built up in Bratislava, Banská Bystrica, Košice, Žilina, Nitra, Trenčín, Trnava and Prešov.