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BASIC INFORMATION

Full name of the organisation (in English:) Finnish University and Research Network
Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): Suomen korkeakoulujen ja tutkimuksen tietoverkko
Abbreviation in the national language(s): FUNET
Visiting address: c/o CSC
Tekniikantie 15 a D
City/postal code: 02101 ESPOO
Postal address: P.O. Box 405
City/postal code: 02101 ESPOO

Finland
Year founded: 1984
Year operations started: 1984
Fax: +358 9 457 2302
Phone: +358 9 457 2711
Website: www.csc.fi
General e-mail address: helpdesk@funet.fi
Convention used for e-mail addresses: first.lastname@csc.fi


ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

Form of organisation: Not a separate legal entity /
Research/education organisation (part of a university, research institution, etc.) /
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: FUNET is part (or a service) of CSC - Scientific Computing Ltd.
CSC is a non-profit company 100% owned by the Min of Edu in Finland.
As a limited company CSC has a Board of Directors and a Director.

At CSC FUNET services are given by two groups
- FUNET network technology (transmission network, routing, mail, news, security, etc.)
- FUNET network services (information services, distance education, etc.)
Involvement in cctld or domain names: Not involved in cctld.
We attend RIPE meetings and take part in some working groups like anti-spam, test traffic,
netnews, dns, Ipv6.
Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): Mr. Matti Ihamuotila
Managing Director, CSC
Mr. Markus Sadeniemi
Director of FUNET
Head of the Technical Staff: Mr. Juha Oinonen Development Manager
E-mail: Juha.Oinonen@csc.fi
Name of contact person for PR matters: Mr. Ari Turunen Information Manager
E-mail: Ari.Turunen@csc.fi


STAFFING

Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: 31
Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): 28
Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: 23
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: 3
Number of user support and training staff in FTE: 2
Total amount of effort in person/months per year: 336


FINANCES, BUDGET

Total budget of last financial year (in euro): 8.3 M EUR
Total budget current financial year (in euro): 7.6 M EUR
Source Percentage of income Restricted Free
Government/public bodies: 50 x
Users: 50 x


Method of client charging: We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee
 
Expenditure category: Percentage:
Salaries and general office costs 17
Equipment and software costs 12
Transmission (data communications) 58
Other 13
Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: We have a contract with one provider
Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: Through NORDUnet
Remarks: Funet charges are based on the size of organisation (number of people) and international traffic volume. It is not based on bandwidth.


USER BASE

Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): 263, year: 1999
Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: 99
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
External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): 7.3
Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion
Campus LAN 1 30
Metropolitan or regional network 3 5
Access network 2 10
NREN backbone 5
External connections 4


Manner in which institutions are connected to the network:
Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: 85%
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by the NREN: 10%
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: 5%
Number of institutions with a permanent connection: 85
Number of connected Universities: 49
Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: 98
Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: 1
Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: <1

CAPACITY AND PLANS



Current core network capacity in Mbps: 2488
Total volume of traffic through the network in 2001 (in TB): 2300
Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): 985
Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): 936
Total traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 270
Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 119
Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 106
Core capacity in Mb/s x km: 5,000,000
Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): 155 or 622
Expected access capacity in two years time: 3 times as much
Map of network topology: www.csc.fi/suomi/funet/verkko.html.en
Recent network traffic statistics: 1q2000 204 TB
2q2000 230
3q2000 255
4q2000 358
1q2001 453
2q2001 465
3q2001 594
4q2001 788
Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:)
NORDUnet, 2 x 2.4 Gb/s (also to GEANT PoP in Stockholm)
Abilene, vBNS in New York (through NORDUnet), 622 Mb/s
Internet/USA in Stockholm (through NORDUnet), 1900 Mb/s
FICIX, other Finnish networks in Helsinki, 622 + 155 Mb/s
Runnet, St. Petersburg, 34 Mb/s
Expected operational external connections in January 2004:
NORDUnet, 10 Gb/s
GEANT 5 Gb/s, Abilene 2.5 Gb/s (both through NORDUnet)
Internet/USA (through NORDUnet), 10 Gb/s
FICIX, other Finnish networks in Helsinki, 2 x 1000 Mb/s
Runnet, St. Petersburg, 155 Mb/s


Technology used for the core network: IP over fiber/WDM/SDH.
Planned technical changes: Upgrade of remaining access networks from 155 Mbps ATM to 622 Mbps IP over SDH.
Expected core capacity in two years: Twice as much.
Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: FUNET is one of the founding partners of FICIX in Helsinki, Finland.
  www.ficix.fi


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
Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: FUNET only has universities, polytechnics and other non-profit research institutions connected so all Funet traffic is non-commercial.
Current interests: SDH /
Giga Ethernet /
Lambda Testbed access /
IPv6 Development /
IPv6 Service Deployment /
User authentication /
Directory Services /
Multicast /
CERT services /
CERT incident coordination /
Video Conferencing /
Streaming Media /
Traffic Monitoring /
Charging / billing systems /
Essential future interests: Lambda Service Deployment /
In house PKI development/deployment /
Potential future interests: Wireless LAN /
Diffserv/Qos /
MPLS Service Deployment /
In house Certification Authority /
Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) /
Teaching and learning methods /
Information Content indexing
Will follow other NRENs on: Caching, Indexing, Mirroring /
Web Server content management /
Web Server usage analysis /
Joint projects with/on: 6net (www.6net.org/),
NetGL (www.nordunet2.org/).