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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Egyptian Universities Network
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Postal address:
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Supreme Council of Universities,
Cairo University BLDs
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City/postal code:
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Giza
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Egypt
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Year founded:
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1987
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Year operations started:
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1993
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Fax:
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+202 57 28 174, + 202-57 28 722
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Phone:
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+ 202-7742344, +202 57 35 405
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Website:
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www.frcu.eun.eg/ |
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General e-mail address:
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netop@frcu.eun.eg
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ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
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Form of organisation:
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Research/education organisation (part of a university, research institution, etc.) /
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Involvement in cctld or domain names:
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EUN administers the top level domain of Egypt.
The top level domain has 7 subdomains (EUN, EDU, SCI, GOV,COM,ORG,NET)
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Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s):
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Prof. Gamal M. Aly
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EUN Director
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Head of the Technical Staff:
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Prof. Gamal M. Aly EUN Director
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E-mail:
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gmaly@mcti.gov.eg
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Name of contact person for PR matters:
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Ms. Dina Ali M.M. Barakat
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E-mail:
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NETOP@FRCU.EUN.EG
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Remarks:
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Another contact person is Mr. Tarek Edris.
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STAFFING
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Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation:
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19
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Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs):
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19
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Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE:
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14
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Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE:
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4
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FINANCES, BUDGET
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Budget year:
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1 July to 30 June
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Total budget of last financial year (in euro):
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11.7
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Total budget current financial year (in euro):
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12
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Source
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Percentage of income
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Restricted
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Free
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Government/public bodies:
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50
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Users:
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50
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x
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Method of client charging:
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We charge a flat fee, based on bandwidth
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Expenditure category:
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Percentage:
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Salaries and general office costs
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10
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Equipment and software costs
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25
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Transmission (data communications)
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60
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Other
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5
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Method of obtaining national data communications capacity:
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We have contracts with several providers
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USER BASE
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Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000):
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850, year: 1995
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Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN:
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0
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Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN:
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0
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Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN:
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0
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Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN:
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0
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Number of institutions with a permanent connection:
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36
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Number of connected Universities:
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19
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Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN:
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100
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Number of connected institutes of higher or further education:
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2
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CAPACITY AND PLANS
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Current core network capacity in Mbps:
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8
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Expected access capacity in two years time:
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We expect to increase capacity to around 12 Mb/s
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Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:)
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USA, 8 Mb/s
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Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002:
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USA, 12 Mb/s
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Technology used for the core network:
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Fast Ethernet
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Planned technical changes:
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Switches, routers.
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Involvement in Internet Exchange Point:
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No.
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Remarks:
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Mean traffic figures for January 2002:
- Total external: 8.2 Mb/s;
- Inbound: 3.7 Mb/s;
- Outbound: 4.5 Mb/s.
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SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
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Services provided:
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- NOC:
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Done by NREN
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- Security incident response:
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Done by NREN
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Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy:
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The EUN is considered the first local and national network connecting all the Egyptian universities and academic, scientific, research and governmental sectors in one wide area network.
The EUN had witnessed a lot of changes due to the rapid progress of the network & communications technology.
EUN is also the Egyptian top level domain . Connection to the Internet through EUN is possible, there is price list for the different speeds.
Registration under .eg is free of charge.
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