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BASIC INFORMATION

Full name of the organisation (in English:) Hungarian Academic and Research Network Association
Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): Magyar Kutatasi es Oktatasi Halozati Egyesulet
Abbreviation in the national language(s): HUNGARNET
Postal address: NIIF - HUNGARNET
Victor Hugo u. 18/22
City/postal code: H - 1132 BUDAPEST

Hungary
Year founded: 1992
Year operations started: 1987
Short description of the history of the NREN: www.hungarnet.hu/english/assoc/hungalaA.html
Fax: +36 1 2709650
Phone: +36 1 2709640
Website: www.hungarnet.hu
General e-mail address: h11nag@ella.hu
Convention used for e-mail addresses: Traditional: h[nr][sn]@ella.hu
where [nr] is a user-specific serial number and [sn] is a shortened name (first three letters of the family name)
Later version: [firstname].[lastname]@iif.hu


ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

Form of organisation: Separate legal entity /
Other non-profit organisation /
Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: 900
Brief description of the governing structure: General Assembly,
President, Executive President, Vice Presidents (Presidential Board),
Secretary General + Secretariat
Involvement in cctld or domain names: HUNGARNET earlier provided cctld registration service. Later this has been delegated to a separate independent organisation. Since then domain name registration is performed by HUNGARNET to the academic and research networking community. HUNGARNET is interested in RIPE activities. Several HUNGARNET representatives participate in some RIPE WGs.
Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): Prof. Laszlo Zombory
President
Dr. Peter Bakonyi
Executive President
Head of the Technical Staff: Dr. Istvan Tétényi Chair of the Technical Committee
E-mail: tetenyi@sztaki.hu
Name of contact person for PR matters: Ms. Klara Mikus PR officer
E-mail: mikus@iif.hu
Remarks: Contact also: Mr. Miklos Nagy, Secretary General.

HUNGARNET is a non-profit legal entity ("Association"). HUNGARNET closely co-operates with the Hungarian National Information Infrastructure Development (NIIF) Programme that provides organisational and financial frameworks to developing and maintaining the infrastructure, services, and pilot applications, as well as specific content generation for and within the academic and research community. NIIFP is co-ordinated by the NIIF Office (NIIFI), an organisation operating under the umbrella of the Ministry of Education. NIIFP is governed by the Programme Committee and operates a Technical Committee. Head (Director General) of NIIFI is Mr.Miklos Nagy while head (Director) of NIIF international relations is Dr.Lajos Balint.


STAFFING

Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: 18
Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): 16
Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: 6
Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: About 50 (including volunteers)
Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: About 40
Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: 8
Number of user support and training staff in FTE: 2
Total amount of effort in person/months per year: 800
Remarks: HUNGARNET and NIIF/NIIFI staff are overlapping.


FINANCES, BUDGET

The budget year is equal to the calendar year.
Total budget of last financial year (in euro): 6 M
Total budget current financial year (in euro): 6 M
Source Percentage of income Restricted Free
Government/public bodies: 90 x
Users: 10 x
Other sources: <1 x


Method of client charging: We charge a flat fee, based on bandwidth
 
Expenditure category: Percentage:
Salaries and general office costs 5
Equipment and software costs 30
Transmission (data communications) 60
Other 5
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: Actual annual income/expenditure figures normally differ from budgeted. (Difference may be up to about 30-40 % due to unforeseeable extra resources.)


USER BASE

Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): 279, year: 1999
Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: 100
Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: 100
Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: 20
External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): 3.6
Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion
Campus LAN 3 10
Metropolitan or regional network 1 40
Access network 2 20
NREN backbone 4 10
External connections 5 0


Manner in which institutions are connected to the network:
Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: 20%
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by the NREN: 80%
Number of institutions with a permanent connection: 900
Number of connected Universities: 122
Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: 100
Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: 65
Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: 100
Remarks: All networked secondary and primary schools have international connectivity through HUNGARNET - NIIF.
Among the connected institutions there are also different faculties/departments of universities

CAPACITY AND PLANS



Current core network capacity in Mbps: 2500
Total volume of traffic through the network in 2001 (in TB): 1000
Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): 300
Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): 700
Total traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 200
Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 60
Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 140
Core capacity in Mb/s x km: 3000000
Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): 155 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s
Expected access capacity in two years time: 5 to 10 times as much
Map of network topology: www.iif.hu/index.php?headline=infra&;menu=menu-kapcs.html&text=infra1.html
Recent network traffic statistics: www.hungarnet.hu/forgalmi_statisztikak/
Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:)
GEANT, 2500
Expected operational external connections in January 2004:
GEANT, 5000 to 40000


Technology used for the core network: IP/SDH/WDM
Expected core capacity in two years: 2 to 10 times as much
Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: Yes, with BIX (Budapest Internet Exchange), directly
  www.bix.hu
Remarks: Gigabit (external and internal) connectivity just started very recently within HUNGARNET - NIIF. Traffic has not yet reached its foreseeable/foreseen level. Therefore the 2004 estimates are very uncertain and possibly conservative.


SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS

Services provided:
- Basic IP provision: Done by NREN
- User support: Done by NREN
- NOC: Done by NREN
- Directory services: Done by NREN
- Security incident response: Done by NREN
- PKI/CA: Done by others
- Annual Conferences: Done by NREN
Other services: Some of the services done in-house are partly outsourced
Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: Official Hungarian version at www.hungarnet.hu/magyar/halszolg/aup.html.
Click here for the English version.
Current interests:
SDH /
Giga Ethernet /
Diffserv/Qos /
MPLS Service Deployment /
IPv6 Development /
IPv6 Service Deployment /
User authentication /
In house PKI development/deployment /
In house Certification Authority /
Directory Services /
Caching, Indexing, Mirroring /
Multicast /
CERT services /
CERT incident coordination /
Video Conferencing /
Traffic Monitoring /
Web Server content management /
Web Server usage analysis /
Information Content indexing
Essential future interests: Lambda Testbed access /
Lambda Service Deployment /
Wireless LAN /
Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) /
Streaming Media /
Charging / billing systems /
Potential future interests: Teaching and learning methods /
Joint projects with/on: GEANT