TERENA NREN Compendium 2008
Basic Information

Updated: 10 May 2008 at 14:47

D: Basic Information
D.1 Full name of the organisation (in English)
Research and Educational Networking Association of Moldova
D.2 Full name of the organisation in the national language(s)
Asociatia Obsteasca RENAM
D.3 Abbreviation in English
RENAM
D.4 Abbreviation in the national language(s)
ARSEM
D.5 Visiting address
168, Stefan cel Mare bd, office 134 Street

Chisinau, MD-2004 City/postal code
D.7 Postal address
5, Academiei Str., Office 331 Street

Chisinau, MD-2028 City/postal code
D.9 Country
Moldova, Republic Of
D.10 Fax
+373-22-288006; 739805
D.11 Phone
+373-22-739827
D.12 General e-mail address
renam@renam.md
D.13 Website
http://www.renam.md
D.14 Convention used for individual e-mail addresses
[lastname/name abbreviation]@renam.md
D.15 Year the first research network operations started
2000
D.16 Year in which research networking was started as a dedicated organisational unit
1999
D.17 Year in which the NREN was founded in its current form
1999
D.18 Short description of the history of the organisation
http://www.renam.md/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=8

D.19 Form of organisation
(x)Separate legal entity of its own
( )Not a legal entity of its own, but part of a larger organisation
( )Not a separate legal entity and also not part of a larger organisation
Name of the parent organisation
D.20 What is the formal relationship between the organisation and the government?
( )We are a government agency or part of a ministry
( )The Government appoints at least half of the members of our Governing body
(x)There is an indirect relationship (for example if at least half the members of your Governing body are appointed by research and education institutions that in itself are (largely) government-funded)
( )No formal relationship
( )Other, please explain below
Major part of RENAM Council (Governing body) members are appointed by research and education institutions and some members are representatives of ministries and state agencies
D.21 Description of the governing structure of the NREN
The Council of RENAM Association is the governing organ of the Association according to its Statute. The Council consists of well-known scientists of Moldova, research institutions' managers, information systems and networking specialists, which represent the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Universities of Moldova, and other scientific and educational institutions. The Council produces strategy decisions on RENAM network and information systems development directions, considers and adopts technical suggestions. The Council is headed by its elected Chairman.
Between Council meetings the Association is governed by Co-presidents of the Association. In 1999 two co-presidents were appointed.
The Council of the Association appoints executive managers staff with RENAM Executive Director as a head, which is responsible for all current activity of the Association. The activity of Association's Executive staff is supervised by General Director of the Association.
Other parts of RENAM organizational structure:
- Executive managers - heads of RENAM departments
- RENAM Director Executive Department technical experts Committee
- RENAM NOC team personnel
D.22 URL to description of the governing structure
http://www.renam.md/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=9
D.23 Senior management team
CEO Acad. Title Andrei First name Andries Last name
General Director Job Title

andries@renam.md E-mail address
CEO 2 Dr. Title Grigore First name Secrieru Last name
Executive Director Job Title

secrieru@renam.md E-mail address
CTO Mr. Title Boris First name Varzari Last name
Executive Vice-Director Job Title

varzari@renam.md E-mail address
CTO 2 Dr. Title Peter First name Bogatencov Last name
Executive Vice-Director Job Title

bogatencov@renam.md E-mail address
OTHER Dr. Title Veaceslav First name Sidorenco Last name
Leading specialist, Public relations officer Job Title

svv@renam.md E-mail address
D.24 Short description of major changes that occurred in the network during the past year or that are foreseen for the coming year
One new optical connections were realized in Chisinau MAN that allowed to wider the own optical infrastructure up to 33 km.
In the communication node that provides external connectivity existing Cisco 7206 router was upgraded by NPE-G2 communication engine and two new Cisco WS-C2960G-24TC-L switches were installed in REAM nodes.
The radio-relay channel Chisinau (RENAM, Moldova) – Iasi (RoEduNet, Romania) was transferred to new technical basis and its capacity upgraded in 2007 up to 155 Mbps. New external back-up channel of 40 Mbps capacity was provided by local IDSP StarNet. The summarized external channels capacity (excluding local IX peering) from September 2007 achieved 155 + 40 Mbps.
In 2007-2008 the development of DF backbone in Chisinau was continued. One new RENAM node was connected by fiber optics link that allowed improve connectivity for campuses of Technical University of Moldova. Connection to National IX point was upgraded up to 1 Gbps.
In 2008 the elaboration of the technical solution of DF link Chisinau – Iasi construction was continued and the terms of the practical realization of this optical connection will be determined in 2008.
RENAM CERT operation was promoted and appropriate services for NREN community are deployed in production mode.
D.25 Feedback
The Compendium containing a lot of very useful data, that can be utilized for understanding trends of NRENs future development and the policies of these organizations operation. Some parts are completing and some questions are answering in different manner that doesn't allow to make direct comparison and even sometime to understand precisely the real state of target NREN.
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