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 the national language(s): | Rossiisky Naucho-Issledovatelskii Institut Razvitiya Obshestvennykh Setey |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | RosNIIROS |
| Postal address: | 1 Kurchatov Square |
| City/postal code: | 123182 MOSCOW |
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Russian Federation |
| Year founded: | 1992 |
| Year operations started: | 1993 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: | www.ripn.net/about/en/ |
| Fax: | +7 095 196 49 84 |
| Phone: | +7 095 196 72 78 |
| Website: | www.ripn.net |
| General e-mail address: | info@ripn.net |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | NAME@ripn.net, NAME@rbnet.ru, NAME@relarn.ru |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: |
Separate legal entity / Research/education organisation (part of a university, research institution, etc.) / |
| Brief description of the governing structure: |
RIPN provides operational support of NREN backbone (Russian Backbone Network - RBNet) All political decisions are made by Supervisor Council under "umbrella" of the Russian Ministry of Science. |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: | RIPN supports the technical base of .RU Registry and it is the member of CENTR. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Mr. Alexei Platonov |
| Director | |
| Mr. Alexei D. Lesnikov | |
| Vice Director | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Andrey B. Dobrotsvetov Head of NOC |
| E-mail: | adbr@ripn.net |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Ms. Elena P. Voronina Vice Director |
| E-mail: | elin@ripn.net |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 18 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 15 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 10 |
| 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: | 4 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 5 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 3 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 252 |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 2.8 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 3 M |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Government/public bodies: | 80 | x | |
| Users: | 20 | ||
| Method of client charging: | Other: |
| We charge a flat fee based on bandwidth in case they want to get bandwidth in addition to centrally distributed | |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Salaries and general office costs | 10 |
| Equipment and software costs | 18 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 60 |
| Other | 12 |
| 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: | For national connectivity, we also have contracts with several providers. |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 4458, year: 1994 |
| 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 | 4 | |
| Access network | 1 | |
| NREN backbone | 2 | |
| External connections | 3 |
| Manner in which institutions are connected to the network: | |
| Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by the NREN: | 5% |
| Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: | 95% |
| Remarks: |
Students with Internet access: about 90% in general. There is no detailed information yet. Almost all institutions are connected via regional networks managed by third parties. Only one regional network in Moscow is managed by RIPN (this is RELARN-IP). Not all information is available due to difficulties in gathering it from regional networks. Additional work is needed and it is in progress just now. |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | In the 1Q2002 we'll have 7-8 45 Mbps links within the star-like topology to the main regions of Russia, with a centre in Moscow (North-West - St.Petersburg, South - Rostov-na-Donu, Center - Samara and Nizhny Novgorod, Ural - Ekaterinburg, Siberia - Novosi |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 10 Mb/s |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 10 times as much |
| Map of network topology: | www.ripn.net/rbnet/en/russia_2.html |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| Teleglobe (Frankfurt), 155 Mb/s |
| StarTAP (Chicago), 45 Mb/s |
| MSK-IX, 1000 Mb/s |
| Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002: |
| StarTAP/StarLight, 155 Mb/s |
| Expected operational external connections in January 2004: |
| International, 2.5 Gb/s |
| Domestic, 5 Gb/s |
| Technology used for the core network: | SDH (STM-1), ATM (OC-3), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet |
| Planned technical changes: | Migration to Gigabit Ethernet and dedicated "lambdas" (on some directions) |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | 4 - 6 times as much |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | Operator of MSK-IX and SPB-IX |
| www.ripn.net/ix/en/ | |
| Remarks: | In the nearest future the billing/statistics system is to be put into operation and there will be opportunity to give more detailed information on the questions from Section 6. |
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - Basic IP provision: | Done by NREN |
| - User support: | Done by NREN |
| - NOC: | Done by NREN |
| - Directory services: | Done by others |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| - PKI/CA: | Not done |
| - Annual Conferences: | Outsourced |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: |
www.ripn.net/rbnet/index.html (in Russian, will be translated into English in the nearest future) |
| Current interests: |
SDH / Giga Ethernet / Diffserv/Qos / MPLS Service Deployment / IPv6 Development / User authentication / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Multicast / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Video Conferencing / Traffic Monitoring / |
| Essential future interests: |
Lambda Testbed access / IPv6 Service Deployment / In house PKI development/deployment / In house Certification Authority / Charging / billing systems / |
| Potential future interests: |
Lambda Service Deployment / Wireless LAN / Teaching and learning methods / Streaming Media / |
| Will follow other NRENs on: |
Directory Services / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / Web Server content management / Web Server usage analysis / Information Content indexing |
| Joint projects with/on: | International link to StarTap in cooperation with Joint Supercomputer Center (Russia), Kurchatov Institute (Russia), NCSA (USA). |