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:) | Israel Interuniversity Computer Center |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | Machba |
| Postal address: |
Computer Center Tel-Aviv University Ramat Aviv |
| City/postal code: | 69978 TEL AVIV |
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Israel |
| Year founded: | 1985 |
| Year operations started: | 1985 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: | Established by the leading universities of Israel, for the purpose of providing computation and communications services to the Israeli academia. |
| Fax: | + 972 3 640 91 18 |
| Phone: | + 972 36405534 |
| Website: | www.internet-2.org.il |
| General e-mail address: | iucc-info@mail.iucc.ac.il |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: | Other non-profit organisation / |
| Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: | 8 |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: | We act as an outsourcer to the ISOC-IL, which manages the cctld. We provide hosting space and DNS services for the cctld. We do not participate on a formal basis with the RIPE working groups. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Prof. Rafi Rom |
| Chairman | |
| Mr. Avi Cohen | |
| Director | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Hank Nussbauer |
| E-mail: | |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Mr. Sany Fraenkel Administrative Manager |
| E-mail: | Sany@post.tau.ac.il |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 8 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 6 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 2 |
| Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: | .75 |
| Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: | .75 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 4 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | .25 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 81 |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 6.7 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 5 M |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Government/public bodies: | 60 | ||
| Users: | 40 | ||
| Method of client charging: | We charge a flat fee, based on bandwidth |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Salaries and general office costs | 13% |
| Equipment and software costs | 6 % |
| Transmission (data communications) | 81% |
| 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 a contract with a provider. |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 143, year: 1992 |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | 100 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | 10 |
| 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 | |
| Metropolitan or regional network | 5 | |
| Access network | 5 | |
| NREN backbone | 4 | |
| External connections | 2 |
| Number of institutions with a permanent connection: | 21 |
| Number of connected Universities: | 8 |
| Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: | 100 |
| Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: | 9 |
| Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: | 10 |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 155 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 155 Mbps |
| Map of network topology: | www.internet-2.org.il/i2-2001.jpg |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | www.internet-2.org.il/stats.html |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| GEANT, 45 Mbps |
| StarTap USA, 45 Mbps |
| Technology used for the core network: | ATM |
| Planned technical changes: | Convert to an SDH network |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | We are a member of the IIX |
| www.isoc.org.il | |
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - Basic IP provision: | Done by NREN |
| - User support: | Done by NREN |
| - NOC: | Outsourced |
| - Directory services: | Done by NREN |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| - PKI/CA: | Not done |
| - Annual Conferences: | Not done |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: | www.internet-2.org.il/aup.html |
| Current interests: |
Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Multicast / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Teaching and learning methods / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / Traffic Monitoring / |
| Essential future interests: |
SDH / Giga Ethernet / Wireless LAN / IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Deployment / User authentication / Charging / billing systems / |
| Potential future interests: |
Web Server content management / Web Server usage analysis / Information Content indexing |
| Will follow other NRENs on: |
Lambda Testbed access / Lambda Service Deployment / Diffserv/Qos / MPLS Service Deployment / In house PKI development/deployment / Directory Services / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / |
| Not interested in: | In house Certification Authority / |