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:) |
Academic and Research Network of Slovenia |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | Akademska in raziskovalna mre√a Slovenije |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | ARNES |
| Postal address: | Jamova 39 |
| City/postal code: | 1000 LJUBLJANA |
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Slovenia |
| Year founded: | 1992 |
| Year operations started: | 1992 |
| Fax: | + 386 1 4798 899 |
| Phone: | + 386 1 4798 800 |
| Website: | www.arnes.si/ |
| General e-mail address: | arnes@arnes.si |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | firstname.lastname@arnes.si |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: | Separate legal entity / |
| Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: | 1 |
| Brief description of the governing structure: | The members of the Board of Directors are appointed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: | ARNES is the registry for cctld .si (Slovenia) |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Mr. Marko Bonac |
| Director | |
| Mr. Avgust Jauk | |
| Deputy Director | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Avgust Jauk Deputy Director |
| E-mail: | jauk@arnes.si |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Mr. Marko Bonac Director |
| E-mail: | bonac@arnes.si |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 18 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 18 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 11 |
| 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: | 0 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 3 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 4 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 336 |
| Remarks: |
Outsourced staff are students working as user support for our users who have individual dial up accounts at ARNES. There are 50.000 such users. What are activities "directly related to R&E networking". ARNES provides individual dial up accounts for students and children in schools (50.000 accounts). Large part of our staff is involved in this activity (especially for a user support). Is this related to R&E networking ? It is, but the comparison with other NRENs (most of them are not involved in this) could show that we have large staff for a relatively small network. And this would be an unfair comparison. |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 4.5 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | Between 5 and 7 M EUR - not decided yet. |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Government/public bodies: | 82 | x | |
| Users: | 5 | x | |
| Other sources: | 13 | x |
| Method of client charging: | We do not charge them directly |
| Some clients are charged a traffic-based fee. | |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Salaries and general office costs | 13 |
| Equipment and software costs | 17 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 66 |
| Maintenance | 4 |
| Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: | We have contracts with several providers |
| Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: | Through contract(s) with (a) provider(s) |
| Remarks: |
13% of income through the EU 5th Framework Programme. 1. Again: What are activities "directly related to R&E networking". ARNES is doing two activites which are related to R&E networking, but not normally done by others: - we provide individual dial up accounts for students and children - we connect primary and secondary schools to our network Cost of services to universities represent smaller part of our budget. 2. It is difficult to distinguish between restricted and free usage of funds. 3. We charge only small part of our users (research departments in private companies). These fees are traffic based. All other users get the service for free. 4. If an NREN has subcontractors then expenditure categories should be applied for them too. Only in such a way Terena could get relevant and comparable results. 5. In some countries not everything is financed through NRENs. Some services and/or equipment are financed directly. This should be taken into account to get comparable results. |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 53, year: 1996 |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | 90 - 100 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | 80 - 99 |
| Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: | 70 - 99 |
| Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN: | 53 |
| External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): | 3.6 |
| Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion |
| Campus LAN | 4 | 10 |
| Metropolitan or regional network | 5 | |
| Access network | 1-3 | 90 |
| NREN backbone | 1-3 | 50 |
| External connections | 1-3 | Comment: as we have only one external connection all client institutions experience the same congestion. |
| Manner in which institutions are connected to the network: | |
| Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: | 95% |
| Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by the NREN: | 5% |
| Number of institutions with a permanent connection: | 301 |
| Number of connected Universities: | 5 |
| Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: | 100 |
| Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: | 10 |
| Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: | 100 |
| Remarks: |
All universities and practically all schools at ISCED levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 are somehow connected to ARNES. At shools there are class rooms with computers and any child can use them. They can get also an individual dial up account from ARNES (for free) and access the ARNES network from home (if they have a computer at home). We can say that 99 % or 100 % of children at schools and students have a possibility of internet access through ARNES (second column). On the other hand many connections (especially to primary schools) are slow, there are not enough computers in schools, not every family has a computer at home. So we estimate that only 30 % of children in primary education use internet regulary etc. (first column). |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 100. Comment: The backbone is composed by links with different capacity (2 - 10 - 100 - 155). |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 108 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 84 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 18 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 15 |
| Core capacity in Mb/s x km: | 40000 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 100 Mbps |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 10 times as much |
| Map of network topology: | www.arnes.si/backbone.htm |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| GEANT, 310 Mb/s (ARNES uses this connectivity also for access to global IP.) |
| Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002: |
| GEANT, 1200 Mb/s |
| Expected operational external connections in January 2004: |
| GEANT, 10 Gb/s |
| Technology used for the core network: | SDH, ATM, LL, Gigabit Ethernet |
| Planned technical changes: | Probably migration to Ethernet technology. |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | 100 times as much |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | ARNES runs the Slovenian Internet Exchange |
| Remarks: | ARNES connects many schools and libraries. Typical access capacity of such an organisation is rather small (128 kb/s - 2 Mb/s). On the other hand there are only a few universities in Slovenia. Their access capacity is relatively large (100 Mb/s). It would be useful (to get a clearer picture) to ask for the number of connected institutions with different access capacities (e.g. how many organisations are connected with 128 kps, 2 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps) |
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - User support: | Done by NREN |
| - NOC: | Done by NREN |
| - Directory services: | Done by NREN |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| Other services: |
Domain registration for cctld.si Provision of dial up access for students and children. |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: | The use of the ARNES services is restricted to the research and educational institutions, libraries and national museums. Exceptionally it can be used by other institutions from the public sector. Such cases have to be approved by the ministry. |
| Current interests: |
Giga Ethernet / SDH / Wireless LAN / Diffserv/Qos / IPv6 Development / User authentication / Directory Services / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Multicast / CERT incident coordination / CERT services / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / Traffic Monitoring / Charging / billing systems / Web Server usage analysis / Information Content indexing |
| Potential future interests: |
Lambda Service Deployment / Lambda Testbed access / |
| Will follow other NRENs on: |
MPLS Service Deployment / IPv6 Service Deployment / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / Web Server content management / |
| Not interested in: | Teaching and learning methods / |