HEAnet was initially formed in 1983 as collaborative endeavour between member institutions and later expanded to include EduCampus as a subsidiary.
Over the decades, we have evolved into a cornerstone of ICT services for Ireland’s education and research sector, linking learners and researchers not only across Ireland but also with peer networks in Europe and globally.
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1983
Asiera formed as a collaborative endeavour between member institutions and began operation under the name HEAnet.
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1993 - 1997
Managed by UCD Computing Services under contract to HEAnet.
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1997
HEAnet becomes a founding member of INEX – The Internet Neutral Exchange with connections at 512 Kbps.
HEAnet was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee. John Boland was appointed as the first HEAnet CEO.
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1998
Connectivity up to 2 Mbps and our first wireless connection delivered to DIAS (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies).
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2001
Established TransAtlantic connectivity to USA and beyond.
First HEAnet Conference.
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2004
Connectivity up to 1 Gbps.
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2005
First Schools connected under the Department of Education’s Schools Broadband Programme – targeting 1/2Mb to 2Mb.
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2008
Phased migration of IoTs from ITnet to the HEAnet network.
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2010
Edugate, our national federated access solution which today supports 40 million authentications annually was launched.
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2012
Origins of the Brokerage Services Team, which now delivers in excess of €7m in savings for the sector annually.
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2012 - 2014
HEAnet managed the delivery of 100Mb/s connections to every post-primary school on behalf of the Irish government between 2012 and 2014.
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2015
EduCampus established as a subsidiary of HEAnet to support the Institute of Technology Client Community. EduCampus CEO Paddy Naughton appointed.
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2016
HEAnet started providing 10Gbit/s circuit for the I-Lofar project.
EduCampus launch MIS Refresh programme of work to transition all clients from OnPrem to Cloud hosted services.
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2017
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2019
HEAnet and EduCampus continue to expand their operations. EduCampus onboard new clients (UL, HOO and Trinity College Dublin)
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2020
HEAnet procured 16,700 laptops for students and launched the eduroam Everywhere project in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
EduCampus launches Strategy 2020-2024 and sets out the company’s ambition to realise its vision of empowering higher education through quality IT Shared Services.
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2021
Ronan Byrne appointed as HEAnet CEO.
HEAnet and EduCampus were recognised as Best in Health & Wellbeing by InBusiness Recognition Awards 2021 run by Chambers Ireland.
EduCampus support Atlantic Technology University Donegal as the first Higher Education Institution in Ireland to go live on the new state-of-the-art, Banner 9 cloud-based Student Record Management System.
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2022
Successful rollout of eduroam Wi-Fi in almost 500 new locations. First HEAnet client connected at 100Gbps.
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2023
HEAnet introduces new SOC & SIEM Services.
HEAnet and EduCampus continue to expand their client base.
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2024
HEAnet connects 1000 Primary Schools with enterprise-level Broadband Connectivity.
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2025
HEAnet and EduCampus announce merger to form one organisation, Asiera.