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BASIC INFORMATION

Full name of the organisation (in English:) RedIRIS
Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): RedIRIS
Abbreviation in the national language(s): RedIRIS
Visiting address:


Postal address: c/ Serrano 142
City/postal code: 28006 MADRID

Spain
Year founded: 1988
Year operations started: 1988
Short description of the history of the NREN: www.rediris.es/rediris.
There was a previous period, in 1986, in which the Science and Education Ministry had some agreements with RARE.
Fax: + 34 91 585 51 46
Phone: +34 91 585 51 50
Website: www.rediris.es
General e-mail address: secretaria@rediris.es
Convention used for e-mail addresses: name.surname@rediris.es


ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

Form of organisation: Not a separate legal entity /
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: For Policy and Funding RedIRIS depends on the Ministry of Science and Technology.

From the Organizational point of view RedIRIS depends on the CSIC (autonomous institution for research involving a variety of disciplines) dependent on the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Involvement in cctld or domain names: Although in IANA database we are the administrative contact for '.es', the Spanish authority has changed since March 2000, and we are only involved as experts in a commission about the evolution of the '.es' domain.
Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): Dr. Victor Castelo Gutiérrez
Director
Head of the Technical Staff: Mr. Diego R. López Head of Network Applications
E-mail: diego.lopez@rediris.es
Name of contact person for PR matters: Ms. Sonia Portillo
E-mail: sonia.portillo@rediris.es
Remarks: Another technical contact is Ms. Esther Robles, responsible for networking, <esther.robles@rediris.es>;.


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: 18
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: 6
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): 20 M
Total budget current financial year (in euro): 20 M
Source Percentage of income Restricted Free
Government/public bodies: 94
Users: 0
Other sources: 6


Method of client charging: We do not charge them directly
 
Expenditure category: Percentage:
Salaries and general office costs 7.5
Equipment and software costs 7.5
Transmission (data communications) 85
Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: We have a contract with one provider
Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: Through the GÉANT project
Remarks: 6% of income from the EU.

For international connectivity, we use several carriers.


USER BASE

Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): 1787, year: 1999
Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: 100
Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: 0
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 5 10
Metropolitan or regional network 3 50
Access network 2 70
NREN backbone 3 50
External connections 4 10


Manner in which institutions are connected to the network:
Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: 30%
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by the NREN: 30%
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: 40%
Number of institutions with a permanent connection: 270
Number of connected Universities: 66
Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: 100
Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: 0
Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: 0

CAPACITY AND PLANS



Current core network capacity in Mbps: 155
Core capacity in Mb/s x km: 1240000
Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): 155 Mbps
Expected access capacity in two years time: 16 times as much
Map of network topology: www.rediris.es/red
Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:)
GÉANT, 2500
Local ISP, 155
Internet2, Canarie, Esnet, 77
Global Internet, 155
Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002:
Internet2, Canarie, Esnet (using GÉANT), 4 x 2500
Global Internet, 622
Local ISP, 2 x 155
Expected operational external connections in January 2004:
Internet2, Canarie, Esnet (using GÉANT), 8 x 2500
Global Internet, 2 x 2500
Local ISP, 2500


Technology used for the core network: ATM
Planned technical changes: IP and DWDM
Expected core capacity in two years: 16 times as much
Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: Directly connected to Espanix.
  www.espanix.net


SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS

Services provided:
- Basic IP provision: 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 NREN
Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: cvu.rediris.es/pub/spanish.cgi/d183498/RedIRIS%20AUP

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

Taking into account the international range of the R&D Networks, RedIRIS demands from its members the fulfillment of certain regulations regarding ethics and consideration for other network users. These regulations apply to all international R&D networks. The failure to comply with these regulations may lead to the suspension of the services supplied by RedIRIS, which as mentioned earlier have been created as a tool for researchers and scientists.

The following actions are strictly prohibited:
§ Give access to any of the services provided by RedIRIS to persons or organizations outside the signatory entity of this agreement without an specific permit.
§ Attempt to cause any damage to systems or equipments connected to Red IRIS and other networks to which access has been provided.
§ Spread virus or other programs in order to damage information process systems.
§ Make use of the networks resources for commercial or advertising purpose.
§ Produce congestion deliberately in communication links or computer systems through sending information or programs conceived for that purpose.

Generally, information confidentiality in R&D nets cannot be guaranteed, so that it depends on the final users. The managers of the systems connected to Red IRIS should be extra careful to prevent the access to non approved people.
Current interests: SDH /
Wireless LAN /
MPLS Service Deployment /
IPv6 Development /
User authentication /
In house PKI development/deployment /
In house Certification Authority /
Directory Services /
Caching, Indexing, Mirroring /
Multicast /
CERT services /
CERT incident coordination /
Teaching and learning methods /
Video Conferencing /
Streaming Media /
Traffic Monitoring /
Web Server content management /
Web Server usage analysis /
Information Content indexing
Essential future interests: Giga Ethernet /
Lambda Testbed access /
Lambda Service Deployment /
Diffserv/Qos /
Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) /
Charging / billing systems /
Potential future interests: IPv6 Service Deployment /
Joint projects with/on: The main projects are:
PAPI: www.rediris.es/app/papi/index.en.html
Webber: www.rediris.es/app/webber/index.en.html
QoS monitoring: www.heanet.ie/Heanet/projects/nat_infrastruct/qosmonitoringtf-ngn.html
IP Multicast Activity: www.noc.dfn.de/tf-ngn/
MPLS: www.crihan.fr/mpls/mpls.html
Expectations from TERENA in any of these areas: We expect TERENA to co-ordinate groups of interest in these technologies, and to enable contacts among project teams working in related areas.