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:) | UNINETT AS |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | UNINETT AS |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | UNINETT |
| Postal address: | Abels gate 5, Teknobyen |
| City/postal code: | N-7465 TRONDHEIM |
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Norway |
| Year founded: | 1993 |
| Year operations started: | 1978 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: |
1978: UNINETT as a research project 1986: UNINETT as a secretariat for network operations 1993: UNINETT AS as a limited company |
| Fax: | +47 73557901 |
| Phone: | +47 73557900 |
| Website: | www.uninett.no |
| General e-mail address: | sekretariat@uninett.no |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | firstname.surname@uninett.no |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: | Separate legal entity / |
| Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: | 300 |
| Brief description of the governing structure: |
Through an annual General Assembly the shareholders express their views and elect the board of directors. The board of directors is the responsible governing body of the organisation and employs the managing director. The organisation is divided into four groups, each headed by a group leader. |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: | UNINETT has a subsidiary called UNINETT FAS that hosts the cctld for the no (Norway), sj (Spitsbergen) and bv (Bouvet Island) domains. UNINETT and UNINETT FAS participate in RIPE related work. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Mr. Bjørn Henrichsen |
| Chairman of the board of directors | |
| Mr. Petter Kongshaug | |
| Managing Director | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Olav Kvittem Group Leader Network experimental group |
| E-mail: | Olav.Kvittem@uninett.no |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Mr. Tor Gjerde Engineer |
| E-mail: | info@uninett.no |
| Remarks: |
There are four departments in UNINETT, each with its own head. The other departments and their heads are: - Services and Middleware group, leader is Ingrid Melve, <Ingrid.Melve@uninett.no>;; - Administration group, leader is Yngvild Nilsen, <Yngvild.Nilsen@uninett.no>;; - Network operations group, leader is Olaf Schjelderup, <Olafø.Schjelderup@uninett.no>;. |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 27 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 27 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 22 |
| Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: | 10 |
| Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: | 10 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 5 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 0 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 444 |
| Remarks: |
Technical responsibilities divided over the group leaders, e-mail <gr-ledere@uninett.no>;. UNINETT does not have specific support and training staff positions. Time spent on support is not explicitly calculated. 1st level support outsourced. |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 13.4 M (including NORDUnet contribution) |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 14 M (including NORDUnet contribution) |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Government/public bodies: | 50 | x | |
| Users: | 50 | ||
| Method of client charging: | We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Salaries and general office costs | 20 |
| Equipment and software costs | 10 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 60 |
| Other | 10 |
| Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: | We own our own network |
| Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: | Through NORDUnet |
| Remarks: | We also work through nationally through contracts with providers. |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 187, 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: | 5 |
| External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): | 6.5 |
| Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion |
| Campus LAN | 4 | 10 |
| Access network | 4 | 10 |
| NREN backbone | 4 | 3 |
| External connections | 5 | 0 |
| Manner in which institutions are connected to the network: | |
| Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: | 85% |
| Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by the NREN: | 10% |
| Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: | 5% |
| Number of institutions with a permanent connection: | 300 |
| 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: | 35 |
| Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: | 100 |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 155 Mb and 2.5 Gb |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 646 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 561 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 155 |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | up to 16 times as much |
| Map of network topology: | drift.uninett.no/kart/ |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | drift.uninett.no/kart/ |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| NORDUnet, 10 Gb/s |
| Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002: |
| NORDUnet |
| Expected operational external connections in January 2004: |
| NORDUnet |
| Technology used for the core network: | SDH and Ethernet |
| Planned technical changes: | Introducing WDM services |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | From 155 Mb/s to 2 Gb/s, or 16 times as much. |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | Only connected. |
| www.uio.no/nix/ | |
| Remarks: |
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SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - Basic IP provision: |
Done by NREN |
| - User support: | Done by others |
| - NOC: |
Outsourced Done by NREN |
| - Directory services: | Done by NREN |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| - PKI/CA: | Not done |
| - Annual Conferences: | Done by NREN |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: |
Web-references in Norwegian: UNINETT Acceptable Use Policy: www.uninett.no/dokumenter/unot/94-006.html UNINETT ethical guidelines for using the net: www.uninett.no/dokumenter/unot/94-007.html AUP: members are free to use the network for all purposes. The only restriction is 3rd party transit traffic, and ethical guidelines. |
| Current interests: |
SDH / Giga Ethernet / Wireless LAN / Diffserv/Qos / IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Deployment / Directory Services / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Multicast / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / Traffic Monitoring / |
| Essential future interests: |
Giga Ethernet / Diffserv/Qos / User authentication / In house PKI development/deployment / |
| Potential future interests: |
Lambda Testbed access / Lambda Service Deployment / In house Certification Authority / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / Teaching and learning methods / Charging / billing systems / Web Server usage analysis / Information Content indexing |
| Not interested in: | MPLS Service Deployment / |
| Joint projects with/on: | 6net; SCAMPI; NEEDS (Nordic directory collaboration) |
| Expectations from TERENA in any of these areas: | As is. |