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:) | ULAKBIM |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | Ulusal Akademik Ag ve Bilgi Merkezi |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | ULAKBIM |
| Postal address: | YOK Plaza B5 Blok |
| City/postal code: | 065 39 BILKENT-ANKARA |
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Turkey |
| Year founded: | 1996 |
| Year operations started: | 1996 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: | www.ulakbim.gov.tr/english/ |
| Fax: | +90 312 298 9494 |
| Phone: | +90 312 298 9302 |
| Website: | www.ulakbim.gov.tr |
| General e-mail address: | ulakbim@ulakbim.gov.tr |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | [name]@ulakbim.gov.tr |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: |
Not a separate legal entity / Governmental organisation (govt. dept., agency or organisation under govt. umbrella, etc.) / |
| Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: | 1 |
| Brief description of the governing structure: |
TÜBITAK is a semi-dependent government agency which is funding ULAKBIM's services |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: | No. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Dr. Tugrul Yilmaz |
| Director | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Yücel Güven |
| E-mail: | yucel@alakbim.gov.tr |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Ms. Ilknur Gurcan Network Specialist |
| E-mail: | ilknur@ulakbim.gov.tr |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 25 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 25 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 12 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 5 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 8 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 300 |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 4.4 M |
| Method of client charging: | We do not charge them directly |
| Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: | We have a contract with one provider |
| Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: | Through contract(s) with (a) provider(s) |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 953, year: 1999 |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | 100 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | 0 |
| Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: | 0 |
| External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): | .3 |
| 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 | 2 | 30 |
| NREN backbone | 3 | 10 |
| External connections | 1 | 50 |
| Manner in which institutions are connected to the network: | |
| Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: | 100% |
| Number of institutions with a permanent connection: | 93 |
| Number of connected Universities: | 75 |
| Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: | 100 |
| Remarks: | Number of connected higher education institutes is not known, because they are organized as sub-institutions of the universities. Most of them are connected. |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 34 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 65 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 180 |
| Core capacity in Mb/s x km: | 55794 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 2 Mbps |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 17 times as much |
| Map of network topology: | www.ulakbim.gov.tr/servisler/uclar/harita |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | www.ulakbim.gov.tr/servisler/istatistik/snmp/ |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| SMS-UK-NET (AS 13126) through ESER-NET (AS 9000), 64 Mb/s |
| Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002: |
| SMS-UK-NET (AS 13126) through ESER-NET (AS 9000), 155 Mb/s |
| Technology used for the core network: | ATM, Frame Relay, SDH. |
| Planned technical changes: | We are planning to convert from Frame Relay to ATM for connecting nodes to the backbone. The backbone capacity is planned to be upgraded from 34 Mbps to 155 Mbps. |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | 100 % |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | Yes. TIX (Turkey Internet Exchange). |
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - Basic IP provision: | Done by NREN |
| - User support: | Done by NREN |
| - NOC: | Done by NREN |
| - Directory services: | Done by NREN |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: | www.ulakbim.gov.tr/servisler/ulaknet-basvuru |
| Current interests: |
SDH / Directory Services / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Streaming Media / Traffic Monitoring / Web Server content management / Web Server usage analysis / |
| Essential future interests: |
Diffserv/Qos / Multicast / Teaching and learning methods / Video Conferencing / |
| Potential future interests: |
Wireless LAN / MPLS Service Deployment / IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Deployment / |
| Will follow other NRENs on: |
User authentication / In house PKI development/deployment / Charging / billing systems / Information Content indexing |
| Not interested in: | Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / |