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:) |
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | Poznanskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | PCSS |
| Visiting address: | 10 Noskowskiego Str. |
| City/postal code: | 61-704 Poznan |
| Postal address: | 12/14 Noskowskiego Str. |
| City/postal code: | 61-704 Poznan |
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Poland |
| Year founded: | 1993 |
| Year operations started: | 1997 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: | www.pol34.net/english/index_siec.html |
| Fax: | (+48 61) 8525-954 |
| Phone: | (+48 61) 8582001 |
| Website: | www.man.poznan.pl |
| General e-mail address: | office@man.poznan.pl |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | user_id@man.poznan.pl |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: | Research/education organisation (part of a university, research institution, etc.) / |
| Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: | 22 |
| Brief description of the governing structure: |
PSNC has one owner: the Academy of Sciences. The POL-34 network is an agreement of 22 academic metropolitan area networks. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Prof.Dr. Jan Weglarz |
| Director | |
| Dr. Maciej Stroinski | |
| Technical Director | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Dr. Maciej Stroinski Technical Director |
| E-mail: | stroins@man.poznan.pl |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Mr. Cezary Mazurek Network Services Department manager |
| E-mail: | mazurek@man.poznan.pl |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 69 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 59 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 49 |
| Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: | 30 |
| Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: | 1 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 11 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 4 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 1068 |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 7.8 M |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Government/public bodies: | 50 | 100% | |
| Users: | 50 | 50% | |
| Method of client charging: | We charge a flat fee, based on bandwidth |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Salaries and general office costs | 30 |
| Equipment and software costs | 10 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 50 |
| Other | 10 |
| Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: | We own our own network |
| Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: | Through the GÉANT project |
| Remarks: | Nationally and internationally, we also have contracts with several providers. |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 1382, year: 1999 |
| External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): | .5 |
| Remarks: | The Polish NREN consists of 22 Metropolitan Area Networks. Each of them provides connectivity for the institutions within its metropolitan area. We have no detailed data of the number of universities and institutes connected. |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 155 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 320 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 330 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 67 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 60 |
| Core capacity in Mb/s x km: | 125500 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 100/155/622 Mbps |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 8 times as much |
| Map of network topology: | noc.man.poznan.pl/noc/strony/siec_pol34/topologia.htm |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| GEANT, 2500 |
| Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002: |
| GEANT, 10000 |
| Technology used for the core network: | ATM |
| Planned technical changes: |
A programme called "PIONIER: Polish Optical Internet - Advanced Applications, Services and Technologies for the Information Society" will be developed for the Polish scientific-academic community between the years 2001-2005. The programme conception assumes the realisation of three essential targets: 1. Developing the information infrastructure for the scientific community in Poland up to a high enough level which will allow research concerning the challenges of modern science, technology, services and applications. 2. Developing and testing pilot services and applications for the information society, which will be the framework for deployment in such domains as science, education, governmental and local administration, industry and service oriented business. 3. To join in the competition for software development towards new applications in the information society. |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | 8 times as much |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | No. |
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - Basic IP provision: | Done by NREN |
| - User support: | Done by NREN |
| - NOC: | Done by NREN |
| - Directory services: | Not done |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| - PKI/CA: | Not done |
| - Annual Conferences: | Done by NREN |
| Other services: | MBS, Mbone |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: |
POL-34 AUP 1. POL-34 accepts academic, research and commodity traffic 2. Full internet connectivity is supplied 3. Depending on the involvement of Ministry of Science in financing projects, the following traffic policy is applied: Public Research - preferred Private research - accepted Higher education - preferred Primary and Secondary Schools - accepted National museums - accepted Local museums - accepted National libraries - preferred Local libraries - accepted Administrations (national and local) - accepted Medical research - preferred Hospitals - accepted |
| Current interests: |
Giga Ethernet / Lambda Testbed access / Lambda Service Deployment / MPLS Service Deployment / IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Deployment / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Multicast / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Teaching and learning methods / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / Traffic Monitoring / |
| Essential future interests: |
Giga Ethernet / Lambda Testbed access / Lambda Service Deployment / IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Deployment / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Multicast / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Teaching and learning methods / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / |
| Potential future interests: |
Wireless LAN / Diffserv/Qos / MPLS Service Deployment / User authentication / In house PKI development/deployment / |
| Will follow other NRENs on: |
Web Server content management / Web Server usage analysis / Information Content indexing |
| Not interested in: |
SDH / In house Certification Authority / Directory Services / Charging / billing systems / |
| Joint projects with/on: | www.dante.net/sequin/ |