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BASIC INFORMATION

Full name of the organisation (in English:) Research and Educational Network Association of Moldova
Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): Asociatia Obsteasca RENAM
Abbreviation in the national language(s): RENAM
Visiting address: 168, Stefan cel Mare Str. 168,
office 134
City/postal code: Chisinau, MD-2004
Postal address: 5, Academiei Str.
City/postal code: Chisinau, MD-2028

Moldova
Year founded: 1999
Year operations started: 2000
Short description of the history of the NREN: www.renam.md/r_n_s.html
Fax: 373-2-727026, 497022
Phone: 373-2-739827, 497025
Website: www.renam.md
General e-mail address: renam@renam.md
Convention used for e-mail addresses: [lastname/name abbreviation]@renam.md


ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

Form of organisation: Separate legal entity /
Research/education organisation (part of a university, research institution, etc.) /
Other non-profit organisation /
Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: 8
Brief description of the governing structure: 1) General meeting of the Association
2) Council of the Association
3) Technical experts Committee
4) Executive Managers Department
5) NOC - Network Operating Center staff
Involvement in cctld or domain names: RENAM is responsible for universities and academic general second level domains maintain under cctld .md: acad.md; asm.md; utm.md; usm.md; renam.md
Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): Dr. Grigore Secrieru
Executive Director
Head of the Technical Staff: Dr. Peter Bogatencov Vice executive director (development)
E-mail: bogatencov@renam.md
Name of contact person for PR matters: Mr. Veaceslav Sidorenco Head, International Relations section
E-mail: svv@renam.md
Remarks: One can also contact Mr. Boris Varzari, Vice executive director (administration), <vbv@renam.md>;.


STAFFING

Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: 32
Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): 12
Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: 7
Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: 20
Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: 15
Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: 4
Number of user support and training staff in FTE: 5
Total amount of effort in person/months per year: 324


FINANCES, BUDGET

The budget year is equal to the calendar year.
Total budget of last financial year (in euro): 0.1 M
Total budget current financial year (in euro): 0.12 M
Source Percentage of income Restricted Free
Users: 40
Other sources: 60 x


Method of client charging: We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee
 
Expenditure category: Percentage:
Salaries and general office costs 15
Equipment and software costs 50
Transmission (data communications) 30
Other 5
Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: We own our own network
Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: Through contract(s) with (a) provider(s)
Remarks: Nationally, we also have contracts with providers.
Internationally, we get a connection through the DFN & GEANT networks.


USER BASE

Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): 94, year: 1996
Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: 60
Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: 20
Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: 0
Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN: 0
External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): 0
Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion
Campus LAN 5 1
Metropolitan or regional network 3 10
Access network 2 20
NREN backbone 4 5
External connections 1 100


Manner in which institutions are connected to the network:
Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: 70%
Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: 30%
Number of institutions with a permanent connection: 9
Number of connected Universities: 5
Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: 40
Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: 2
Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: 25

CAPACITY AND PLANS



Current core network capacity in Mbps: 2-10 Mb/s
Total volume of traffic through the network in 2001 (in TB): 1,12
Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): 0.07
Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): 1.05
Total traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 0.093
Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 0.005
Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): 0.089
Core capacity in Mb/s x km: 104
Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): 2
Expected access capacity in two years time: We hope to increase it to 155 Mb/s
Map of network topology: See annex 1, 2
Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:)
DFN/GEANT satellite link, 0.128 Mb/s
Local ISP (DNT), 0.512 Mb/s
Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002:
RoEduNet (Romania), 8 Mb/s
Local ISP (Relsoft), 1 Mb/s
One of the European Satellites, via ISP, 0.4 Mb/s
Expected operational external connections in January 2004:
GEANT via RoEduNEt, 34 Mb/s
DFN (Germany) via satellite, 4 Mb/s
Local ISP (Relsoft), 4 Mb/s


Technology used for the core network: Fast Ethernet; Ethernet; E1- ATM; Serial PPP
Planned technical changes: OC-3 ATM; Gigabit Ethernet
Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: Moldavian ISPs IX provided by "Moldtelecom" (national communication operation); direct links to DNT and "Relsoft Communications" ISPs
  www.moldtelecom.md


SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS

Services provided:
- Basic IP provision: Done by NREN
- User support: Done by NREN
- NOC: Not done
- Directory services: Not done
- Security incident response: Done by NREN
Done by others
- PKI/CA: Not done
- Annual Conferences: Done by NREN
Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: 1) A University, College or Scientific institution submits application to become a member of the Association;
2) Members of the Association use direct links to the appropriate RENAM POPs
3) Scientific - educational community of Moldova representatives that are working in the entities -members of the Association can use dial-up access through access servers of RENAM Network.

See also: www.renam.md/r_a_3.html
Current interests: User authentication /
Caching, Indexing, Mirroring /
Traffic Monitoring /
Charging / billing systems /
Web Server content management /
Essential future interests: Giga Ethernet /
Diffserv/Qos /
In house PKI development/deployment /
In house Certification Authority /
Directory Services /
Multicast /
Teaching and learning methods /
Video Conferencing /
Streaming Media /
Information Content indexing
Potential future interests: SDH /
Giga Ethernet /
Lambda Testbed access /
Lambda Service Deployment /
Wireless LAN /
MPLS Service Deployment /
IPv6 Development /
IPv6 Service Deployment /
Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) /
CERT services /
CERT incident coordination /
Web Server usage analysis /
Joint projects with/on: NATO Science Programme Committee projects:
NIG 975476 "Academic network development in Moldova",
NIG 977228 "RENAM network - second stage",
NIG 978385 "RENAM-RoEduNet networks direct link and gateway construction",
INTAS project "Electronic publications networking access for researchers", Soros Foundation project "Moldnet"
Expectations from TERENA in any of these areas: Consulting support and involvement in joint projects together with other European NRENs