2009

• CERT.be is operated by Belnet. Appointed by FedICT in collaboration with BIPT, CERT.be is the primary Belgian contact point for dealing with Internet security threats and vulnerabilities affecting Belgian interests. CERT.be gives also security-related information to the Belgian public.
• Organisation of the first Belnet Security Conference.

• Launch of the Point-to-Point Ethernet service. The Point-to-Point Ethernet service ensures that different affiliated organisations can be connected to each other. In addition, an affiliated institution can also connect geographically dispersed sites within the same organisation to one another.

2008

• Organisation in Bruges of TNC (TERENA Networking Conference), the most important European conference on advanced network technologies.

• Launch of the new Belnet network. Users can now exchange data at a speed of 10 Gbit/s or multiples of this.

• Start-up of the 24/7 helpdesk for Belnet customers.

2006

• Start-up of the second generation FedMAN network, consisting of 16 nodes. The network connects 24 institutions with each other at a speed of 1 Gbit/s and serves almost 80,000 people.

• Launch of SCS (Server Certificate Service, now known as DCS), which provides improved Internet security and, among other things, gives institutions for research and higher education the possibility to easily create websites for free.

• Participation of Belnet in the eduroam (“Educational Roaming”) initiative. The eduroam service offers users simple and secure access to their own institution’s network and that of other institutions affiliated with Belnet that offer eduroam.

• Signing of a cooperation agreement with the Flemish and Walloon governments to provide cheaper and improved access by colleges of higher education to the Belnet network.

2004

• Belnet establishes a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) as a source of information concerning vulnerabilities, bugs, viruses... for Belnet customers and to combat Internet misuse.
• Creation of BEgrid, the Belnet GRID initiative that provides a platform to researchers to stimulate GRID initiatives in Belgium.

• The BNIX increases network capacity to 10 Gbit/s.

2003

• Advanced services such as native IPv6 and multicast are more strongly represented on the network.

• The capacity of the Belgian Internet node, BNIX, is expanded to 10 Gbit/s.

2002

• New Belnet GigaNet network operational with redundant 2.5-Gbit/s links to the 15 Belnet Points of Presence (PoPs).

• Development and management of the Federal Metropolitan Area Network (FedMAN) for Fedict. The network connects all central federal administrative departments in the Brussels region with each other and to the Internet.

2001

• 2.5-Gbit/s connection to Géant, the European research network.

2000

• On 1 January, Belnet is granted the status of public service with separate management within the federal science policy domain, with the official name: "Belgian Telematics Research Network, BELNET".

1999

• Network capacity increased to 155 Mbit/s.

• Participation in the European TEN-155 project, whose goal was linking the European research networks at 155 Mbit/s.

1997

• Belnet is organised as a permanent operational unit within the Belgian Science Policy Office.

• Network capacity increased to 34 Mbit/s.

• Participation in the European TEN-34 project, whose goal was linking the European research networks at 34 Mbit/s.

1996

• Belnet, together with a number of other ISP´s, creates the Belgian Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA).

1995

• Network capacity increased from 64 kbit/s to 2 Mbit/s.

• Connection to EuropaNET, the international network that linked national university networks with the global Internet and with Europe.

• Creation of BNIX, Belgian National Internet eXchange, the Belgian point of interconnect that makes data exchange possible between Internet service providers (ISP´s) in Belgium.

1993

• The first generation network is operational (64 kbit/s).

1989

• Creation of the ´information technologies´ Impulse programme by the Science Policy Office. The main objective of this multi-year programme (1989-1996) was to promote the use of supercomputers by Belgian researchers. A second part of this programme also focused on research into the installation of a network to make it possible for researches to remotely connect to powerful computers.