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BASIC INFORMATION

Full name of the organisation (in English:) UNI-C, Forskningsnettet
Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): UNI-C, Forskningsnettet
Abbreviation in the national language(s): UNI-C
Postal address: DTU Bldg. 304
City/postal code: 2800 Kgs. LYNGBY

Denmark
Year founded: 1985
Year operations started: 1987
Short description of the history of the NREN: www.denet.dk/history
Fax: +45 35 87 89 90
Phone: +45 35 87 88 89
Website: www.forskningsnettet.dk/eng/
General e-mail address: info@forskningsnettet.dk
Convention used for e-mail addresses: No standard convention is used


ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

Form of organisation: Research/education organisation (part of a university, research institution, etc.) /
Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: 120
Brief description of the governing structure: The Danish ministry of Science,Technology and Innovation has the overall economical and political responsibility. They have nominated a committee, named Styregruppen, which is the management team of the NRN. The committee has members from a number of the largest user organisations on the net.
The daily management is performed by a secretariat named Netsekretariatet. The operation of the network is managed by UNI-C. The total organisation can be seen (in danish) at www.forskningsnettet.dk/org.
Involvement in cctld or domain names: No.
Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): Mr. Ole Kjaergaard
Network Operations Manager
Prof. Steen Pedersen
Head of Administration Unit
Head of the Technical Staff: Mr. Ole Kjaergaard Network Operations Manager
E-mail: ole.kjaergaard@uni-c.dk
Name of contact person for PR matters: Prof. Steen Pedersen Head of Administration Unit
E-mail: sp@it.dtu.dk
Remarks:


STAFFING

Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: 7
Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): 7
Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: 6
Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: 0
Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: 1
Number of user support and training staff in FTE: 0.5
Total amount of effort in person/months per year: 84


FINANCES, BUDGET

The budget year is equal to the calendar year.
Total budget of last financial year (in euro): 4.9 M
Total budget current financial year (in euro): 5.1 M
Source Percentage of income Restricted Free
Government/public bodies: 50 x
Users: 50


Method of client charging: We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee
 
Expenditure category: Percentage:
Salaries and general office costs 25
Equipment and software costs 20
Transmission (data communications) 50
Other 5
Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: We own our own network
Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: Through NORDUnet
Remarks: Nationally, we also have contracts with several providers.


USER BASE

Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): 190, year: 1999
Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: 100
Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: 95 - 100
Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: 0
Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN: 0
Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion
Campus LAN 0
Metropolitan or regional network 0
Access network 0
NREN backbone 0
External connections 0


Manner in which institutions are connected to the network:
Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: 90%
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by the NREN: 10%
Number of institutions with a permanent connection: 120
Number of connected Universities: 7
Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: 100
Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: 48
Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: 90
Remarks: Primary and secondary schools are connected to a seperate network, Sektornet, also administered by UNI-C

CAPACITY AND PLANS



Current core network capacity in Mbps: 822
Core capacity in Mb/s x km: 450000
Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): 200 Mbps
Expected access capacity in two years time: 5 times as much
Map of network topology: www.forskningsnettet.dk/backbone
Recent network traffic statistics: www.forskningsnettet.dk/kort
Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:)
NORDUnet, 2 x 2.4 Gb/s
Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002:
None.


Technology used for the core network: SDH and Ethernet
Expected core capacity in two years: 3 times as much.
Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: UNI-C operates the DIX (Danish Internet eXchange)
  www.dix.dk


SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS

Services provided:
- Basic IP provision: Done by NREN
- User support: Done by NREN
- NOC: Done by NREN
- Directory services: Not done
- Security incident response: Done by NREN
- PKI/CA: Not done
- Annual Conferences: Done by NREN
Other services: No central directory services or PKI/CA
Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: Unfortunately only in danish: www.fsk.dk/cgi-bin/doc-show.cgi?doc_id=11055&;doc_type=29
Current interests: Giga Ethernet /
Wireless LAN /
IPv6 Development /
Caching, Indexing, Mirroring /
Multicast /
CERT services /
Video Conferencing /
Streaming Media /
Traffic Monitoring /
Charging / billing systems /
Essential future interests: Lambda Testbed access /
Diffserv/Qos /
IPv6 Service Deployment /
User authentication /
In house Certification Authority /
Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) /
Potential future interests: SDH /
MPLS Service Deployment /
In house PKI development/deployment /
Directory Services /
Web Server usage analysis /
Not interested in: Teaching and learning methods /
Web Server content management /
Information Content indexing
Joint projects with/on: NORDUnet/Cisco/EU: IPv6