Compendium 2002 Country Information

« Back to country overview

BASIC INFORMATION

Full name of the organisation (in English:) CESNET, Association of Legal Entities
Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): CESNET, zájmové sdru√ení právnických osob
Abbreviation in the national language(s): CESNET, z.s.p.o.
Postal address: Zikova 4
City/postal code: CZ - 160 00 PRAGUE 6

Czech Republic
Year founded: 1996
Year operations started: 1993
Short description of the history of the NREN: www.cesnet.cz/english/history.html
Fax: + 420 2 2432 0269
Phone: + 420 2 2435 2975
Website: www.cesnet.cz
General e-mail address: info@cesnet.cz
Convention used for e-mail addresses: first name.lastname@cesnet.cz ;
individual e-mail addresses are allowed


ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

Form of organisation: Separate legal entity /
Other non-profit organisation /
Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: 28
Brief description of the governing structure: General Assembly - is nominated by the owners.
Board of Directors - is elected by the General Assembly.
Supervisory Board - is elected by the General Assembly.
Managing Director - is elected by the Board of Directors.
Involvement in cctld or domain names: CESNET is a member of CZ.NIC - the association administrating cctld in the Czech Republic.
CESNET participates in RIPE Traffic Measurement project.
Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): Mr. Jan Gruntorád
Managing Director
Head of the Technical Staff: Mr. Václav Novák Head of Operation and Technology Department
E-mail: novakv@cesnet.cz
Name of contact person for PR matters: Ms. Lenka Zapletalová Managing Director's Assistant
E-mail: zaplet@cesnet.cz


STAFFING

Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: 42
Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): 41
Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: 12.9
Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: 26.7
Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: 26.7
Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: 10.9
Number of user support and training staff in FTE: 0
Total amount of effort in person/months per year: 812.4


FINANCES, BUDGET

The budget year is equal to the calendar year.
Total budget of last financial year (in euro): 10 M
Total budget current financial year (in euro): 11.8 M
Source Percentage of income Restricted Free
Government/public bodies: 64 x
Users: 24 x
Other sources: 12 x


Method of client charging: We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee
  CESNET members are charged a combination; others are charged based on bandwidth.
Expenditure category: Percentage:
Salaries and general office costs 23
Equipment and software costs 31
Transmission (data communications) 39
Other 7
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: Internationally through contracts with providers as well.


USER BASE

Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): 177, year: 1999
Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: 90
Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: 1
Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: 1
Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN: 1
External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): 3.2
Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion
Campus LAN 1 80
Metropolitan or regional network 3 25
Access network 2 50
NREN backbone 4 10
External connections 5 10


Manner in which institutions are connected to the network:
Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: 51
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by the NREN: 0
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: 38
Connected via another way: 28connected via other connected clients
Number of institutions with a permanent connection: 117
Number of connected Universities: 29
Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: 62
Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: 10
Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: 0.6

CAPACITY AND PLANS



Current core network capacity in Mbps: 2500
Total volume of traffic through the network in 2001 (in TB): 1624
Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): 305
Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): 255
Total traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 245
Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 47
Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 40
Core capacity in Mb/s x km: 4142000
Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): 1 Gb/s
Expected access capacity in two years time: 10 times as much
Map of network topology: www.cesnet.cz/english/network/
Recent network traffic statistics: www.cesnet.cz/provoz/zatizeni

Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:)
GÉANT, 1244
Ebone (US), 155
NIX.CZ (Neutral Internet eXchange) of the Czech Republic, 200
Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002:
GÉANT, 1244
Commodity Internet, 622
Research traffic (lambda service Prague-Amsterdam), 2500
NIX.CZ (Neutral Internet eXchange) of the Czech Republic, 1000
Expected operational external connections in January 2004:
Géant:, 2500
Commodity Internet, 1244
Research traffic (lambda service Prague-Amsterdam), 2500
NIX.CZ (Neutral Internet eXchange) of the Czech Republic, 2100


Technology used for the core network: PoS SDH, GE
Planned technical changes: Upgrade the core network capacity to tens of gigabits.
Expected core capacity in two years: At least 4 times
Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: Via the members of NIX.CZ (Association for peering in the Czech Republic)
 
Remarks: The total volume of traffic was measured at the link layer. This is total volume of traffic that was transferred through our MPLS core cloud (both directions). There is some traffic which can be routed (and sent to our members) before accessing the MPLS core cloud, but there is no way (at the link layer) to specify the percentage of such traffic which was routed directly and was not sent to/from MPLS core - so it is ignored. Total volume of such traffic is approx. 1450 TBytes in 2002.


SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS

Services provided:
- Basic IP provision: Done by NREN
- User support: Done by NREN
- NOC: Done by NREN
- Directory services: Done by NREN
- Security incident response: Done by NREN
- PKI/CA: Done by NREN
- Annual Conferences: Done by others
Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: www.cesnet.cz/english/doc/aup.html
Current interests: SDH /
Giga Ethernet /
Wireless LAN /
Diffserv/Qos /
IPv6 Service Implementation /
User authentication /
Directory Services /
Caching, Indexing, Mirroring /
Multicast /
Video Conferencing /
Streaming Media /
Capacity planning, statistics /
MPLS Service Deployment /
IPv6 Development /
In house PKI development/deployment /
In house Certification Authority /
CERT services /
Traffic Monitoring /
Charging / billing systems /
Essential future interests: Gigabit Testbed access /
CERT incident coordination /
Web Server management /
Web Server usage analysis /
IPv6 Service Deployment /
Teaching and learning methods /
Potential future interests: Lambda Testbed access /
Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) /
Other interest areas: Voice over IP