Compendium 2002 Country Information
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BASIC INFORMATION
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Full name of the organisation (in English:)
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Armenian Research and Education Networking Association Foundation
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Full name of the organisation in the national language(s):
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"Hayastani gitahetazotakan ev krtakan kompiuterain tsantseri asotsatsia" himnadram
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Abbreviation in the national language(s):
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ARENA
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Visiting address:
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105 Teryan street, building 17, 1st floor
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City/postal code:
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Yerevan / 375009
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Postal address:
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10/2 Khandjian tupik
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City/postal code:
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Yerevan / 375010
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Armenia
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Year founded:
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2001
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Year operations started:
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2001
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Phone:
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+(3741) 525948, 541675
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Website:
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www.arena.am (under construction) |
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General e-mail address:
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arena@ket.am
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ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
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Form of organisation:
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Separate legal entity /
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Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners:
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8
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Brief description of the governing structure:
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The superior body of ARENA Foundation is Board of Trustees, which consists of representatives of organisations-founders and members. Board of Trustees elects President of Foundation, appoints Executive Director and members of Executive Board. The governing body of Foundation is Executive Board and the top executives are President and Executive Director.
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Involvement in cctld or domain names:
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No.
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Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s):
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Dr. Grigor Babayan
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Executive Director
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Name of contact person for PR matters:
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Dr. Grigor Babayan
Executive Director
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E-mail:
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grigor@ket.am
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STAFFING
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Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation:
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2
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Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs):
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2
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Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE:
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2
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Total amount of effort in person/months per year:
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24
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FINANCES, BUDGET
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The budget year is equal to the calendar year.
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Remarks:
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The ARENA Foundation does not yet have an approved budget for 2002.
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USER BASE
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Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000):
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36, year: 1995
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CAPACITY AND PLANS
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Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002:
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DESY (Deutsches Eletronen-SYnchrotorn) via satellite connection, 1.5 Mb/s
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Expected operational external connections in January 2004:
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DESY, 3 Mb/s
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Remarks:
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The ARENA Foundation is going to implement the NATO Science Committee "Virtual Silk Highway" project. According to this program it is scheduled to increase the usable capacity from 1,5 Mbit/s (in 2002) up to 3 Mbit/s (in 2004).
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SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
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Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy:
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Under discussion; Educational and Research organizations preferably
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Essential future interests:
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SDH /
Giga Ethernet /
Wireless LAN /
MPLS Service Deployment /
IPv6 Development /
IPv6 Service Deployment /
CERT services /
CERT incident coordination /
Traffic Monitoring /
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Potential future interests:
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Teaching and learning methods /
Video Conferencing /
Streaming Media /
Charging / billing systems /
Web Server content management /
Web Server usage analysis /
Information Content indexing
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Joint projects with/on:
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The aim of the NATO "Virtual Silk Highway" is to provide high-quality Internet communications for academic and educational needs. The Foundation also conducts some preliminary work for another NATO project, the joint Armenian-Azerbaijani-Georgian CARENA (Caucasus Research Educational Networking Association) project : "Development of Networking Infrastructure of NREN's in the Caucasus".
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Expectations from TERENA in any of these areas:
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Consulting, support of projects
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