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:) |
Estonian Educational and Research Network |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | Eesti Hariduse ja Teaduse Andmesidevõrk |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | EENet |
| Postal address: | Raekoja Plats 14 |
| City/postal code: | 51004 TARTU |
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Estonia |
| Year founded: | 1993 |
| Year operations started: | 1994 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: | www.eenet.ee/englishEENet/index.html |
| Fax: | +372 7 302 111 |
| Phone: | +372 7 302 110 |
| Website: | www.eenet.ee |
| General e-mail address: | eenet@eenet.ee |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | firstname.surname@eenet.ee |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: | Governmental organisation (govt. dept., agency or organisation under govt. umbrella, etc.) / |
| Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: | 1 |
| Brief description of the governing structure: | The operation of EENet is managed by the Director, who is assigned by the Minister of Education. EENet has the following structural units: Customer Service, Network Development and Technical Department and local service centres. The operation of EENet is overseen by the Board of EENet, consisting of the representatives of educational, research, cultural, governmental and other institutions. |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: |
EENet registers subdomains under .ee according to the agreement of the administrators of the .ee domain and the Ministry of Education, which is assigned in the Statute of EENet. EENet does not participate in any of the RIPE working groups. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Mr. Mihkel Kraav |
| Director | |
| Ms. Anne Märdimäe | |
| Head of Customer Services Department | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Urmas Lett Head of Technical Department |
| E-mail: | Urmas.Lett@eenet.ee |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Ms. Maria Ristkok Secretary |
| E-mail: | Maria.Ristkok@eenet.ee |
| Remarks: | Mr. Tarmo Ainsaar is Head of the Development Department. |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 25 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 17.5 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 14 |
| 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: | 2 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 2 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 210 |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 1.1 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 1.03 M |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Government/public bodies: | 100 | x | |
| Method of client charging: | We do not charge them directly |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Salaries and general office costs | 22 |
| Equipment and software costs | 4 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 74 |
| Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: | We have contracts with several providers |
| Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: | Through the GÉANT project |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 43, year: 1996 |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | 85 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | 35.5 |
| Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: | 69 |
| Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN: | 50 |
| External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): | 1.7 |
| Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion |
| Campus LAN | 2 | 75 |
| Access network | 2 | 75 |
| NREN backbone | 4 | 50 |
| Manner in which institutions are connected to the network: | |
| Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: | 70% |
| Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: | 30% |
| Number of institutions with a permanent connection: | 499 |
| Number of connected Universities: | 12 |
| Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: | 66 |
| Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: | 39 |
| Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: | 40 |
| Remarks: |
Connect all universities governed by public law and one-third of the private universities. The 39 institutes of further education include 32 vocational schools. |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 60 |
| Total volume of traffic through the network in 2001 (in TB): | 300 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 28 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 47 |
| Total traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 64 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 6 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 10 |
| Core capacity in Mb/s x km: | 13038 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 100 |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 10 times as much |
| Map of network topology: | www.eenet.ee/EENet/vorgukaart.html |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | cache.eenet.ee/eenet/ |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| GEANT, 155 Mb/s |
| TIX (Neutral Internet Exchange, Tallinn), 100 Mbps |
| Technology used for the core network: | ATM |
| Planned technical changes: |
1) Change of the legal form of EENet; 2) Usage of black fibre in the backbone |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | 5 times as much |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: |
EENet is involved in TIX-LAN which is the Internet Exchange Point in Tallinn. EENet is one of the parties of the TIX-LAN Record. |
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - Basic IP provision: | Done by NREN |
| - User support: | Done by NREN |
| - NOC: | Done by NREN |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: | www.eenet.ee/englishEENet/usagepolicy.html |
| Current interests: |
Giga Ethernet / Wireless LAN / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Traffic Monitoring / |
| Essential future interests: |
IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Deployment / In house Certification Authority / Teaching and learning methods / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / |
| Potential future interests: |
SDH / Diffserv/Qos / Multicast / Charging / billing systems / Web Server content management / Web Server usage analysis / |
| Will follow other NRENs on: | Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / |
| Not interested in: |
Lambda Testbed access / Lambda Service Deployment / User authentication / In house PKI development/deployment / Directory Services / Information Content indexing |
| Joint projects with/on: | GEANT |