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:) | Croatian Academic and Research Network - CARNet |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | Hrvatska akademska i istra√ivacka mre√a - CARNet |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | CARNet |
| Postal address: | Josipa Marohnica bb |
| City/postal code: | ZAGREB 10 000 |
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Croatia |
| Year founded: | 1991 |
| Year operations started: | 1992 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: |
1991. as a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia. 1995. as a government agency. 1992. first international link (9.6 kbps Austria) 1995 first ATM link in Zagreb 1997 ATM backbone, all universities in Croatia connected www.carnet.hr/internet/eng/hrvatska/index_eng.htm |
| Fax: | +385 1 616 5 615 |
| Phone: | +385 1 616 5 616 |
| Website: | www.carnet.hr |
| General e-mail address: | office@carnet.hr |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | name.surname@CARNet.hr |
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 Government of the Republic of Croatia established CARNet as an institution for computer and information infrastructural activities in education and science, as well as promotion of IT in Croatia. The CARNet bodies are the Board of Governors and CEO - Chief Executive Officer. The Board of Governors governs CARNet. The Board of Governors pass the Bylaws, the Act on the internal structure and mode of operation, the Act on distribution of the employees' salaries, the programme of operation and development. It supervises the implementation of these documents and decides on the financial and annual account. It also proposes the changes of activities and of the status and provides the Ministry of Science and Technology and the CEO of CARNet with suggestions and opinions on specific issues. A CEO manages CARNet. The CEO is appointed and dismissed by the Minister of Science and Technology in accordance with the law and the Bylaws. |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: |
CARNet administers and manages the organization of .hr top level domain (i.e. carries out activities regarding registration and activation of secondary domains within the top-level .hr domain). CARNet has also defined a "Regulations regarding the organization of the top-level "hr" Internet domain and the principles of managing the top-level "hr" domain." The CARNet DNS service carries out all administrative work as well as dealing with technical maintenance of the .hr domain (network connectivity, server configuration, DNS server configuration). CARNet actively participates in mailing lists and working groups (Database WG, Anti Spam WG, Netnews, LIR WG, Test Traffic WG, Tools WG, IPv6 WG, DNR WG, EIX WG) of RIPE. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Ms. Jasenka Gojšic |
| Chief Executive Officer | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Nevenko Bartolincic Assistant CEO CARNet |
| E-mail: | Nevenko.bartolincic@CARNet.hr |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Ms. Anamarrija Soric Head of PR Office and International Relations |
| E-mail: | Anamarija.Soric@CARNet.hr |
| Remarks: | Please contact using <press@carnet.hr>; or <int@carnet.hr>; |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 61 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 55 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 22 |
| Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: | 14 |
| Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: | 7 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 11 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 14 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 660 |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 10.8 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 10.9 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 | 12 |
| Equipment and software costs | 16 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 60 |
| Projects | 12 |
| 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: | For international connections, we also have contracts with providers. |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 86, year: 1996 |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | 100 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | 90 |
| Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: | 5 |
| Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN: | 0.5 |
| External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): | 1.1 |
| Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion |
| Campus LAN | 3 | 30-60 |
| Access network | 2 | 30 |
| NREN backbone | 4 | |
| External connections | 1 | 80-90 |
| Manner in which institutions are connected to the network: | |
| Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: | 100% |
| Number of institutions with a permanent connection: | 167 |
| Number of connected Universities: | 4 |
| Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: | 100 |
| Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: | 41 |
| Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: | 100 |
| Remarks: |
There are 167 institutions at 204 locations in Croatia connected to CARNet network. There are 4 Universities in Croatia, but there is rather specific situation. We do not have Campus like Universities. This means, for example, that there are "schools" (called Faculties) belonging to the University of Zagreb but located all over the city. We count each of these Faculties as one institution connected to our network, taking into consideration their independence in finance and decision making. University of Zagreb (Rector's office) is also one of the institutions connected to our network. |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 155 |
| Total volume of traffic through the network in 2001 (in TB): | 95.6 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 51.6 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 44.1 |
| Total traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 20.75 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 10.1 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 10.7 |
| Core capacity in Mb/s x km: | 220100 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): |
Backbone (8 university cities): 155 Mbps (ATM) Typical node: (about 200 locations in 23 cities): 2 Mbps (range: 33,6 kbps - 622 Mbps) |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: |
10 times as much. |
| Map of network topology: | www.CARNet.hr/ustanova/mreza/karta.html |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | www.CARNet.hr/ustanova/mreza/stat_eng.html |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| CARNet has one link to international Internet nodes, via the PanEuropean Research Network GEANT, of 34 Mbps. On this international link 17 Mbps is used for Europe, and the other 17 Mbps for USA traffic. |
| Peering Croatian Telecom, 2 Mb/s |
| Croatian Internet Exchange (CIX), 100 Mb/s shared with two others. |
| Peering Croatian Television, 2 Mb/s |
| Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002: |
| GEANT, 155 Mb/s |
| Expected operational external connections in January 2004: |
| GEANT, 622 - 1000 Mb/s |
| Technology used for the core network: | ATM, SDH, Fast Ethernet |
| Planned technical changes: |
Increase bakcbone capacity 10 times. Increase internationa links 16 times. |
| Expected core capacity in two years: |
Expected: 10 times |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: |
CARNet hosts the Croatian Internet Exchange (CIX) project, the Croatian centre for the exchange of the Internet traffic. The users are commercial and non-commercial ISP's, as well as academic and private computer networks in Croatia. Routing protocol for peering realization is BGP (version 4). CARNet also peers with Croatian Telecom by using 4 Mbps of its link. |
| www.cix.hr | |
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - Basic IP provision: | Outsourced |
| - User support: |
Outsourced Done by NREN |
| - NOC: | Outsourced |
| - Directory services: | Outsourced |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| - PKI/CA: | Not done |
| - Annual Conferences: | Done by NREN |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: | www.carnet.hr/ustanova/clanice/min.html |
| Current interests: |
Wireless LAN / 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 / In house PKI development/deployment / In house Certification Authority / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / |
| Potential future interests: |
SDH / Lambda Testbed access / Lambda Service Deployment / User authentication / |
| Will follow other NRENs on: |
Diffserv/Qos / MPLS Service Deployment / IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Deployment / |
| Not interested in: | Charging / billing systems / |