Compendium 2005 - Funding & Staffing

Organisation:
Users / Clients Network Traffic Funding & Staffing Services Basic Information Organisational Information

Some NRENs provide services only to the Research or Education communities in their country. Others provide other services as well, for example because they administer the country-code tld. For the sake of comparability, this section provides information only about the activities for the Research or Education communities in the country. For short, these are called 'NREN activities'.

4.1Is the budget year equal to the calendar year? (x)Yes ( )No
  If not, it runs from 01/01 to 31/12

(Answers to questions 4.2 and 4.4 are not made public.)

4.32004 (or 2004/2005) budget dedicated to NREN activities (in millions of euro at the current exchange rate) 1.268
4.52005 (or 2005/2006) budget dedicated to NREN activities (in millions of euro at the current exchange rate) 0.000

4.6Estimate of the sources of NREN-related income (for 2005 or 2005/2006)

Source Percentage of income
Users / Clients 1.20
National government / public bodies 98.80
The EU (e.g. for Framework Programme projects) 0.00
Other sources 0.00
Total 100
4.6.1Does this budget include the amount of the EU subsidy for GEANT that the NREN receives? (x)Yes ( )No

4.7Client charging methods

[x]We do not charge them directly
[ ]We charge a flat fee, based on bandwidth
[ ]We charge a traffic-based fee
[ ]We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee
[ ]Other (eg. some, but not all, please explain):
Other:  
(Answers to questions 4.8 and 4.9 are not made public.)
4.10Number of staff engaged in NREN activities in full-time equivalents (FTEs): 17.000
4.11Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis (for NREN activities) 0.000

4.12Breakdown of the staff engaged in NREN activities (all in FTEs):

Breakdown of staff working on NREN activities directly employed by the organisation: Breakdown of staff working on NREN activities but employed by others (outsourced):
NOC 0.000 0.000
Other technical staff 0.000 0.000
Administrative and financial staff 0.000 0.000
User support and training staff 0.000 0.000
Others not included elsewhere 0.000 0.000
Total 0 0

4.13Rough estimate of the percentage of total staff effort that goes towards the following categories of activities:

  Percentage
Connections, production services and support for secondary and primary schools 0.000
General research projects 0.000

4.14 Main expenditure categories in the budget (for 2005 or 2005/2006).

Expenditure Category Percentage
Salaries and general office costs 38.00
Equipment (switches, routers etc.) 2.00
Transmission capacity (IRUs, leased lines, optical equipment, etc.) 24.00
Other 36.00

4.15 Indication of how much of the following network levels are paid for through the NREN budget (and not by some other body)

Level Percentage paid through the NREN budget
External connections  
NREN backbone  
Access network  
Metropolitan or regional networks  
Campus LAN  

4.16 Rough estimate of where the funding comes from for the network levels that are not paid for entirely through the NREN budget

Level Other contributor(s): Percentage of costs paid by them
External connections   0.00
NREN backbone   0.00
Access network   0.00
Metropolitan or regional networks   0.00
Campus LAN   0.00

4.17Have there been any drastic changes to this division in the past year or are any foreseen during the coming year?

Remarks regarding this section

EENet's budget is confirmed only later in the year.