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BASIC INFORMATION

Full name of the organisation (in English:) GIP RENATER National Telecommunication network for Technology, Education and Research
Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): Réseau national de télécommunications pour la technologie, l'enseignement et la recherche
Abbreviation in the national language(s): RENATER
Postal address: 151 Blvd. de l'Hôpital
City/postal code: 75013 PARIS

France
Year founded: 1992
Year operations started: 1993
Short description of the history of the NREN: www.renater.fr/GIPRenater/historique.htm (in French)
Fax: +33-1-53-94-20-31
Phone: + 33 1 53 94 20 30
Website: www.renater.fr
General e-mail address: secretariat@renater.fr
Convention used for e-mail addresses: first_name.name@renater.fr


ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

Form of organisation: Separate legal entity /
Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: 7
Brief description of the governing structure: Administration Board and Director

The administration board is made of one representative of each member of the GIP. These members are
· "Ministére de l'éducation Nationale, de la Recherche et de la Technologie" (MENRT),
· "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" (CNRS)
· "Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique" (CEA),
· "Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique" (INRIA),
· "Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales" (CNES),
· "Institut National de Recherche Agronomique" (INRA),
· "Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement" (CIRAD)
Involvement in cctld or domain names: RENATER is involved in ICANN with Dany Vandromme member of the NCDNHC Administrative Comittee (Non Commercial Domain Name Holder Constiuency of the DNSO - Domain Name Supporting Organisation) and Sabine Jaume-Rajaonia member of the Address Council of the ASO (Address Supporting Organisation).
Both are also active in the AFNIC international Working Group (.fr name holder).
RENATER sends on average 3 people to every RIPE meeting and is especially active in the Working groups on : EIX (European Internet Exchange), LIR (Local Internet Registry), Ipv6.
Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): Prof. Dany Vandromme
Director
Head of the Technical Staff: Prof. Dany Vandromme Director
E-mail: Dany.Vandromme@renater.fr
Name of contact person for PR matters: Ms. Sabine Jaume-Rajaonia Responsible for GIP external affairs
E-mail: Jaume@renater.fr


STAFFING

Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: 24
Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): 23
Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: 11
Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: 5
Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: 5
Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: 11
Number of user support and training staff in FTE: 2
Total amount of effort in person/months per year: 276
Remarks: Outsourced: NOC.


FINANCES, BUDGET

The budget year is equal to the calendar year.
Total budget of last financial year (in euro): 30 M
Total budget current financial year (in euro): 30 M
Source Percentage of income Restricted Free
Government/public bodies: 80 x
Users: 20 x


Method of client charging: We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee
 
Expenditure category: Percentage:
Salaries and general office costs 8
Equipment, software and data communications 91
Other 1
Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: We have contracts with several providers
Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: Through the GÉANT project
Remarks: For international connections, we also have contracts with providers.

RENATER chooses its providers via public tendering procurement.


USER BASE

Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): 2012, year: 1999
Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: 90
Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: 90
Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: 90
Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN: 20
External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): 1.2
Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion
Campus LAN 3
Metropolitan or regional network 2
Access network 1
NREN backbone 5
External connections 5


Manner in which institutions are connected to the network:
Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: 2%
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by the NREN: 1%
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: 97%
Number of institutions with a permanent connection: 600
Number of connected Universities: 80
Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: 100
Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: 150
Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: 90

CAPACITY AND PLANS



Current core network capacity in Mbps: 7400
Total volume of traffic through the network in 2001 (in TB): 2400
Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): 720
Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): 1680
Total traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 500
Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 250
Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 250
Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): 155 Mbps
Expected access capacity in two years time: 10 times as much
Map of network topology: www.renater.fr/Reseau/Renater2/NRD_Carte.htm
www.renater.fr/Metrologie/map-Renater2bis/
Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:)
GÉANT, 2500 Mb/s
US, 2500 Mb/s
Korea, 2 Mb/s
SFINX, 0.4 Mb/s
Expected operational external connections in January 2004:
GÉANT, 10 Gb/s
US, 5 Gb/s


Technology used for the core network: IP/ATM/SDH and IP/ATM/WDM
Planned technical changes: IP/WDM and IP/SDH
Expected core capacity in two years: 20 times as much
Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: We operate the SFINX GIX in Paris.
  www.sfinx.tm.fr
Remarks: Current access capacity is much too low, because of the weakness of regional networks, used to connect to the national backbone.


SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS

Services provided:
- Basic IP provision: Outsourced
- User support: Done by NREN
- NOC: Outsourced
- Directory services: Not done
- Security incident response: Done by NREN
- PKI/CA: Not done
- Annual Conferences: Done by others
Other services: Some of the services done in-house are partly outsourced
Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: ftp.renater.fr/pub/procedures/charte_v12.ps
Current interests: SDH /
Giga Ethernet /
Lambda Testbed access /
Lambda Service Deployment /
IPv6 Development /
IPv6 Service Deployment /
Multicast /
CERT services /
CERT incident coordination /
Teaching and learning methods /
Video Conferencing /
Streaming Media /
Traffic Monitoring /
Essential future interests: Giga Ethernet /
Lambda Testbed access /
Diffserv/Qos /
MPLS Service Deployment /
IPv6 Development /
IPv6 Service Deployment /
User authentication /
In house PKI development/deployment /
In house Certification Authority /
Multicast /
CERT services /
CERT incident coordination /
Teaching and learning methods /
Video Conferencing /
Streaming Media /
Traffic Monitoring /
Potential future interests: Wireless LAN /
Diffserv/Qos /
Caching, Indexing, Mirroring /
Joint projects with/on: GEANT : www.geant.net
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Expectations from TERENA in any of these areas: TERENA has a key role to play with dissemination.