Compendium 2002 Country Information
- BASIC INFORMATION
- ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
- STAFFING
- FINANCES, BUDGET
- USER BASE
- CAPACITY AND PLANS
- SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
BASIC INFORMATION
| Full name of the organisation (in English:) | BELNET, The Belgian National Research Network |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): |
(NL): Het Belgische telematicaonderzoeksnetwerk, BELNET (FR): BELNET, Réseau télématique belge de la recherche |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | BELNET |
| Postal address: |
Wetenschapsstraat 4 / Rue de la Science 4 |
| City/postal code: | 1000 BRUSSELS |
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Belgium |
| Year founded: | 1989 |
| Year operations started: | 1993 |
| Fax: | +32 2790 33 34 |
| Phone: | +32 2 790 33 33 |
| Website: | www.belnet.be |
| General e-mail address: | info@belnet.be |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | firstname.lastname@belnet.be |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: |
Separate legal entity / Governmental organisation (govt. dept., agency or organisation under govt. umbrella, etc.) / |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: |
BELNET is a (Board) member of ISPA Belgium. ISPA Belgium has 3 (out of 10) seats in the Board of DNS Belgium, the organisation governing the ".be" ccTLD. BELNET runs 2 authoritative nameservers for ".be" |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Ir. Pierre Bruyère |
| Director | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Jan Torreele Technical Director |
| E-mail: | Jan.Torreele@belnet.be |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Ms. Céline Morris External Communications |
| E-mail: | Celine.Morris@belnet.be |
| Remarks: | Other contact person: Jan Torreele. |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 24 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 24 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 15 |
| Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: | 3 |
| Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: | 3 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 9 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 0 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 288 |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 11.5 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 12.5 M |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Government/public bodies: | 75 | x | |
| Users: | 20 | x | x |
| Other sources: | 3 | x |
| Method of client charging: | Other: |
| We charge a flat fee, based on bandwidth, for access to commodity Internet only. R&E (internal to BELNET, Géant, Internet2, etc.) traffic is free | |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Salaries and general office costs | 15 |
| Equipment and software costs | 40 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 45 |
| Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: | We have contracts with several providers |
| Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: | Through the GÉANT project |
| Remarks: | For international connections we also have contracts with providers. |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 352, year: 1999 |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | 100 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | 30 |
| Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: | 0 |
| Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN: | 0 |
| External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): | 4 |
| Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion |
| Campus LAN | 1 | 50 |
| Metropolitan or regional network | 5 | |
| Access network | 5 | |
| Manner in which institutions are connected to the network: | |
| Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: | 95% |
| Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: | 5% |
| Number of institutions with a permanent connection: | 130 |
| Number of connected Universities: | 13 |
| Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: | 100 |
| Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: | 30 |
| Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: | 30 |
| Remarks: |
During the course of 2002, ALL institutes of higher education in Flanders (25 institutes) will be connected via BELNET. 50% of students in higher/further education will have Internet access through BELNET. |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 155/622/1000 |
| Total volume of traffic through the network in 2001 (in TB): | 1600 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 900 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 500 |
| Total traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 220 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 112 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 62 |
| Core capacity in Mb/s x km: | 70,000 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 200 Mbps |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 10 times as much |
| Map of network topology: | check www.belnet.be |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | Growth by about 2.5 times per year |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| Global transit, Brussels, 777 Mb/s |
| Global transit, New York, 155 Mb/s |
| GEANT, 2500 Mb/s |
| Abilene ITN, New York, 155 Mb/s |
| BNIX (peering), 2000 Mb/s; AMS-IX (peering), 155 Mb/s |
| Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002: |
| Global transit I, Brussels, 2000 Mb/s |
| LINK (peering), 155 Mb/s |
| Global transit II, Brussels, 1622 Mb/s |
| SFINX (peering), 155 Mb/s |
| Expected operational external connections in January 2004: |
| Global transit, 2 x 5 Gb/s |
| BNIX, 10 Gb/s |
| Other peering, 3 x 1 Gb/s |
| GEANT + Internet2, 2.5 Gb/s |
| Technology used for the core network: | IP over ATM (during 2002: POS & GE). |
| Planned technical changes: | IP over optical |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | 20 times as much |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | BELNET owns and runs the BNIX. |
| www.bnix.net/ | |
| Remarks: |
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SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - Basic IP provision: | Done by NREN |
| - User support: | Done by others |
| - NOC: | Done by NREN |
| - Directory services: | Not done |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| - PKI/CA: | Not done |
| - Annual Conferences: | Not done |
| Other services: | BELNET also does the provision of the standard services (news, ftp, DNS, mail relay, ntp, WWW, etc.) in house. |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: | www.belnet.be/about/pages/aup_uk.html |
| Current interests: |
SDH / Giga Ethernet / IPv6 Service Deployment / Multicast / CERT incident coordination / Video Conferencing / Traffic Monitoring / Charging / billing systems / |
| Essential future interests: |
SDH / Giga Ethernet / Lambda Service Deployment / Wireless LAN / Diffserv/Qos / MPLS Service Deployment / IPv6 Service Deployment / Multicast / |
| Potential future interests: |
In house Certification Authority / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / |
| Not interested in: |
IPv6 Development / User authentication / In house PKI development/deployment / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / CERT services / Teaching and learning methods / Web Server content management / Web Server usage analysis / Information Content indexing |
| Joint projects with/on: |
MoU partner of Internet2 Géant participant Euro-IX member |
| Expectations from TERENA in any of these areas: | Information and communication. |