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:) | Icelandic University and Research Network Ltd. (RHnet) |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | Rannsókna- og háskólanet Íslands hf (RHnet) |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | RHnet |
| Postal address: | Dunhaga 5 |
| City/postal code: | IS-107 Reykjavik |
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Iceland |
| Year founded: | 2001 |
| Year operations started: | 2001 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: | www.rhnet.is/english |
| Fax: | +354 552 8801 |
| Phone: | +354 525 4300 |
| Website: | www.rhnet.is |
| General e-mail address: | rhnet@rhnet.is |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | No standard convention. |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: |
Separate legal entity / Other non-profit organisation / |
| Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: | 14 |
| Brief description of the governing structure: | Annually the shareholders elect a governing board. This board is the responsible governing body of the organisation and employs the managing director. |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: | No. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Mr. Þórður Kristinsson |
| Chairman of the Governing Board | |
| Mr. Jón I. Einarsson | |
| Managing Director | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: |
Mr. Marius Ólafsson Network administrator |
| E-mail: | marius@rhnet.is |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Mr. Jón I. Einarsson Managing Director |
| E-mail: | jie@rhnet.is |
| Remarks: | Other contacts: Sæþór L. Jónsson, vice-chairman, and Ólafur Osvaldsson, system administrator, <oli@rhnet.is>;. |
STAFFING
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 1 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 1 |
| Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: | 1 |
| Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: | 1 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 1 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 0 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 22 |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 0.37 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 0.3 M |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Users: | 80-90 | ||
| Other sources: | 10-20 | x |
| Method of client charging: | Other: |
| We charge a flat fee, based on number of employees at each connected site. | |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Salaries and general office costs | 30 |
| Equipment and software costs | 33 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 35 |
| Other | 2 |
| Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: | We have a contract with one provider |
| Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: | Through NORDUnet |
| Remarks: | Other income consists of grants from the Icelandic Research Council. |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 8, 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: | 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 | 4 | 10 |
| Metropolitan or regional network | 3 | 1 |
| Access network | 2 | 1 |
| NREN backbone | 5 | |
| External connections | 1 | 100 |
| 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: | 14 |
| Number of connected Universities: | 5 |
| Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: | 100 |
| Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: | 3 |
| 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: | 1000 |
| Core capacity in Mb/s x km: | 105000 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 1 Gb Ethernet |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | No increase the next two years. (In three years time: Increase to 10 Gigabit Ethernet.) |
| Map of network topology: | www.rhnet.is/english/map/index.html |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | www.rhnet.is/rhnet.html |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| NORDUnet, 45 Mb/s |
| Reykjavik Internet Exchange (RIX), 100 Mb/s |
| Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002: |
| NORDUnet, 155 Mb/s |
| RIX, 1000 Mb/s |
| Expected operational external connections in January 2004: |
| NORDUnet, 2.4 Gb/s (Only possible if another submarine optical cable is connected to Iceland) |
| RIX, 10 Gb/s |
| Technology used for the core network: | Ethernet |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | None in two years. (Estimate doubling of traffic in about 1,5 years.) |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | Yes. Customer shared staff (outsourcing) |
| www.rix.is | |
| Remarks: |
Mean outbound external traffic 2001: 4,8 Mbit/s (NORDUnet) + 2,4 Mbit/s (RIX) Mean inbound external traffic 2001: 5,5 Mbit/s (NORDUnet) + 1,5 Mbit/s (RIX) Mean outbound external traffic, January 2002: 12,3 Mbit/s (NORDUnet) + 8,2 Mbit/s (RIX) Mean inbound external traffic, January 2002: 12,2 Mbit/s (NORDUnet) + 2,8 Mbit/s (RIX) |
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - Basic IP provision: | Done by NREN |
| - User support: |
Done by NREN Outsourced |
| - NOC: |
Done by NREN Outsourced |
| - Directory services: | Not done |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| - PKI/CA: | Not done |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: | www.rhnet.is/english/reglur.html |
| Current interests: |
Giga Ethernet / Multicast / Teaching and learning methods / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / Traffic Monitoring / |
| Essential future interests: |
Giga Ethernet / IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Deployment / Multicast / Teaching and learning methods / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / Traffic Monitoring / |
| Potential future interests: |
SDH / Wireless LAN / Diffserv/Qos / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / |
| Will follow other NRENs on: |
Giga Ethernet / Lambda Testbed access / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / |
| Not interested in: |
MPLS Service Deployment / User authentication / In house PKI development/deployment / In house Certification Authority / Directory Services / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / Charging / billing systems / Web Server content management / Web Server usage analysis / Information Content indexing |