In early 2014 Adamo begins to deploy a fiber optic network in the city of Girona with the aim of providing coverage to homes and businesses with speeds up to 1000Mbps.

As Adamo announces on his blog in April 2014 comes into operation the fiber optic network of Girona. Adamo connects to a fiber optic ring the city of Girona with its core in Barcelona and the cities of Vic and Lleida. FTTH header of Adamo is housed in the GRN’s datacenter and we hope we can expand the range of services of the 2 operators.

For coverage Adamo found here.

Our interest in technology in general has led us to offer an online store with a selection of the products we use for our own electronic projects, following the maker philosophy a bit. In this line we have become distributors of Arduino, the open source hardware platform best known at the time.

You can find this products and some accessories at the Arduino section of our online store.

GRN reruns its online store with a new engine and new products. In addition to products for firewalls and VoIP PBXs, we released new sections to reinforce the philosophy maker and DIY.

The new store products allow you to introduce yourself in this world. We thought basically in the Arduino and Raspberry Pi OpenHardware platforms, which are the most popular now. In the shop you will also find accessories, some of them from adafruit.com.

Debian has just introduced its new stable version, 7.0. Debian uses character names from the movie “Toy Story” and the new version is called “wheezy”. The new version includes many new features, among which include cross-platform support, tools oriented to the new cloud technologies and a set of multimedia codecs to eliminate the need to install third party software.

We also note that the Debian operating system is available in Catalan and can be installed on multiple architectures, not only PCs but also modern devices like Raspberry Pi minicomputers. This version now supports the new UEFI boot systems. Over 36,000 free software packages at your disposal, updated to the latest versions and tested by the community of Debian developers.

Remember that when installing your Debian netinst version you can use GRN’s repositories found in debian.grn.cat

We had to do a facelift to our website and we’ve done it! Apart from cosmetic changes to conform more to the times, we have made changes that allow accessibility from mobile devices such smartphones and tablets. In addition, we have added new products, we have expanded the information and, importantly, we have incorporated the prices of most products.

We hope you like this new layout, continue making small improvements and welcome any suggestions!

As usual, GRN sponsors robotics La Salle Cassà’s school teams. These teams participate in the FIRST Lego League Girona. This year there have been two teams and one Junior FLL team. In the picture you can see the 3 teams with their coaches.

The Geeks de la nit team has won the award for best coach: “Recognition to the coach who has excelled in their dedication, patience, guidance and devotion.” This group consists of 6 boys and girls in 2nd and 4th ESO. The Androids Cassà  is other team that has won the award for Robot Design: “Recognition to the team that has surprised by its innovative and creative work globally in mechanical design, programming and Robot Strategy and Innovation.” The group consists of 10 boys and girls ranging from 5th grade to 4th ESO.

For the first time in Girona also made ​​a smaller meeting (early primary grades) with the presence of a third group of La Salle Cassà. The group was called MonsterHigh Cassà and consisted of 5 girls from 2nd to 4th grade.

You can see pictures of our teams on the website of AMPA school.

At the posts of the site cassadigital.cat the Foundació Princep de Girona has more information about the event.

To learn more about the FLL can go to the official web site in Catalan or English.

The team, called Km GRN, will participate in the 2013 edition of the Trailwalker Intermon Oxfam that will happen during the 20 and 21 April. You can follow the evolution of the team through his blog and the progress of donations in the team page.

Dare to make a donation to any of the Trailwalker teams, is for a good cause and money well spent!