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:) | Yugoslav Academic And Research Network |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | Akademska Mreza Jugoslavije |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | AMREJ |
| Postal address: | Kumanovska b.b. |
| City/postal code: | Belgrade 11000 |
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Yugoslavia |
| Year founded: | 1991 |
| Year operations started: | 1991 |
| Fax: | +381-11-303 1258 |
| Phone: | +381-11-303 1257 |
| Website: | amrej.rcub.bg.ac.yu |
| General e-mail address: | noc@rcub.bg.ac.yu |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: | Not a separate legal entity / |
| Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: | 8 |
| Brief description of the governing structure: | NREN is governed by the Coordinating team, consisting of member representatives, while the Experts team is responsible for technical matters. Republic Ministry for Science, Technology and Development is primary responsible for NREN internal development, while Federal Secretary for Development and Science finances external Internet connectivity. |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: | ac.yu domain administration |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Prof.Dr. Zoran Jovanovic |
| Co-ordinating team leader | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mara Bukvic Technical team leader |
| E-mail: | mara@rcub.bg.ac.yu, noc@rcub.bg.ac.yu |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Mr. Slavko Gajin Deputy Director of Belgrade University Computer Centre |
| E-mail: | gajins@rcub.bg.ac.yu |
| Remarks: | Formal structure is in reorganisation process. |
STAFFING
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 10 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 7 |
| Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: | 15 |
| Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: | 15 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 264 |
| Remarks: | The majority of staff are employees of the University Computer Centres. |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 0.8 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 0.8 M |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Government/public bodies: | 100 | x | |
| Method of client charging: | We do not charge them directly |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Equipment and software costs | 46 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 19 |
| LAN Structural Cabling | 35 |
| 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: |
Nationally, we also have contracts with providers. Internationally, we also connect through the GEANT network. In the reorganisation process, the NREN has been financed by related ministries, so an official budget does not exist jet. |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | , year: |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | > 90 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | < 5 |
| Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: | 0 |
| Percentage of primary education pupils with Internet access through the NREN: | 0 |
| External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): | ? |
| Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion |
| Campus LAN | 4 | |
| Metropolitan or regional network | 3 | |
| Access network | 3 | |
| NREN backbone | 5 | |
| External connections | 1 |
| 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: | 125 |
| Number of connected Universities: | 7 |
| Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: | 100 |
| Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: | 2 |
| Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: | 1 |
| Remarks: | The majority of institutions with permanent connection are faculties and institutes. |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 2 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 1,84 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 7.7 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 0.23 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 0.82 |
| Core capacity in Mb/s x km: | 1000 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 2 Mb/s |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 500 times as much |
| Map of network topology: | servlet.rcub.bg.ac.yu/servlet/yu.ac.bg.rcub.netis.NetIS?service=insts&;type=top&lang=EN |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | servlet.rcub.bg.ac.yu/servlet/yu.ac.bg.rcub.netis.NetIS?service=wan |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| GRNET, 2 Mb/s |
| BeotelNet, 1.5 Mb/s |
| Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002: |
| GRNET, 8 Mb/s |
| Expected operational external connections in January 2004: |
| GRNET, 10 Gb/s |
| HUNGARNET, 10 Gb/s |
| Technology used for the core network: | SDH |
| Planned technical changes: | Gigabit Ethernet |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | 500 times as much |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | No official IEX exists in Yugoslavia, but we are interconnected with the following local ISPs: BeotelNet, EUnet Yugoslavia, SezamPro, PTT |
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 |
| - PKI/CA: | Not done |
| - Annual Conferences: | Not done |
| Essential future interests: |
Giga Ethernet / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Teaching and learning methods / Traffic Monitoring / Charging / billing systems / |
| Potential future interests: |
SDH / Wireless LAN / Diffserv/Qos / MPLS Service Deployment / IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Deployment / User authentication / In house PKI development/deployment / In house Certification Authority / Directory Services / Multicast / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / Web Server content management / Web Server usage analysis / Information Content indexing |
| Will follow other NRENs on: |
Lambda Testbed access / Lambda Service Deployment / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / |
| Joint projects with/on: | SINYU / SINSEE (Scientific Information Network Yugoslavia / Scientific Information Network South Easter Europe) in co-operation with Max Planck Institute for Physics, Cisco Germany and Telindus, supported by German Ministry for Science and Education, UNESCO, Stability Pact... |
| Expectations from TERENA in any of these areas: | Strong support for internal network development through SINYU and high-speed Internet and regional connectivity through SINSEE project. |