Connecting Schools - Belgium, BELNET

Belgium, BELNET

At present BELNET does not undertake specific actions to these customer segments (in terms of financing and human resources practically impossible for BELNET and schools), but BELNET provides connectivity/bandwidth to regional networks who serve secondary and primary schools. Only 1 secondary school is directly connected to BELNET.

Information Secondary schools Primary schools
Allowed to serve? (% connected via the NREN) Yes - 5% Yes - 1%
Total number connected 4 0
% connected to a POP on the NREN, directly or through a MAN managed by the NREN 1%
% connected to the NREN via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party 99% 100%
% connected to the NREN via or behind another, connected institution
% connected to the NREN in another way
Method of connecting, usable bandwidth
% connected through ISDN or lower
% connected at up to 2 Mbit/s
% connected at >2 Mb and =< 10 Mb/s 25%
% connected at > 10 Mb/s and =< 100 Mb/s 50%
% connected at > 100 and < 1000 Mb/s 25%
% connected at => 1 Gb and < 10 Gb/s above
% connected at 10 Gb or above