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:) | LATNET Department of Latvia University Institute of Mathematics and Computer sciences |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | Latvijas Universitates Matematikas un Informatikas instituta LATNET nodala |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | LATNET |
| Postal address: |
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science Raina Boulevard 29 |
| City/postal code: | 1456 RIGA |
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Latvia |
| Year founded: | 1992 |
| Year operations started: | 1993 |
| Fax: | +371 7820153 |
| Phone: | + 371 7211241 |
| Website: | info.latnet.lv/En/ |
| General e-mail address: | latnet@latnet.lv |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | username@latnet.lv |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: | Research/education organisation (part of a university, research institution, etc.) / |
| Brief description of the governing structure: | The manager of the LATNET is the director of the Department of the Institute of Mathemtics and Computer Science. He is at the same time the deputy director of the Institute. The general management is provided by the Scientific Board of the Institute. |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: | LATNET is responsible for maintaining of the Domain name registration for .lv domain. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Dr. Janis Kikuts |
| Director | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Dr. Guntis Barzdins |
| E-mail: | guntis@latnet.lv |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Dr. Bruno Martuzans senior researcher |
| E-mail: | bruno@latnet.lv |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 39 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 33 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 16 |
| Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: | 12 |
| Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: | 8 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 5 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 12 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 552 |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 1.8 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 2.1 M |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Government/public bodies: | 10 | ||
| Users: | 80 | ||
| Other sources: | 10 |
| Method of client charging: | We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Salaries and general office costs | 30 |
| Equipment and software costs | 35 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 35 |
| 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: | International connectivity also through contracts with providers. |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 56, year: 1996 |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | 85 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | 65 |
| Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: | 30 |
| Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN: | 10 |
| External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): | 2.3 |
| 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 | 2 | |
| Access network | 3 | |
| NREN backbone | 4 | |
| External connections | 1 |
| 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: | 40% |
| Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: | 40% |
| Number of institutions with a permanent connection: | 2200 |
| 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: | 18 |
| Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: | 80 |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 100 |
| Total volume of traffic through the network in 2001 (in TB): | 378 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 55 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 71 |
| Total traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 37 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 5.7 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 7.4 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 2 |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 4 times as much |
| Map of network topology: | info.latnet.lv/En/Services/radio.stm |
| Recent network traffic statistics: |
2000 I quart. - 15 Mbs 2000 II quart. - 25 Mbs 2000 III quart. - 45 Mbs 2000 IV quart. - 65 Mbs 2001 I quart. - 80 Mbs 2001 II quart. - 90 Mbs 2001 III quart. - 100 Mbs 2001 IV quart. - 110 Mbs |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| GEANT (Stockholm), 34 Mb/s |
| UUNET (Stockholm), 2 Mb/s |
| Technology used for the core network: | Fast Ethernet |
| Planned technical changes: | To increase traffic of GEANT |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | 8 times as much |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | Yes, we run the GIX |
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 |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: | info.latnet.lv/En/Clients/usepolicy.stm |
| Current interests: |
SDH / Wireless LAN / Directory Services / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Multicast / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Teaching and learning methods / Streaming Media / Traffic Monitoring / Charging / billing systems / Web Server content management / Web Server usage analysis / Information Content indexing |
| Essential future interests: |
Giga Ethernet / Lambda Testbed access / User authentication / In house PKI development/deployment / In house Certification Authority / Video Conferencing / |
| Potential future interests: | IPv6 Development / |
| Will follow other NRENs on: |
Lambda Service Deployment / IPv6 Service Deployment / |