TERENA NREN Compendium 2008
Basic Information

Updated: 16 May 2008 at 10:08

D: Basic Information
D.1 Full name of the organisation (in English)
CESNET, Association of Legal Entities
D.2 Full name of the organisation in the national language(s)
CESNET, zájmové sdružení právnických osob
D.3 Abbreviation in English
CESNET
D.4 Abbreviation in the national language(s)
CESNET, z. s. p. o.
D.5 Visiting address
Zikova 4 Street

160 00 Prague 6 City/postal code
D.7 Postal address
Street

City/postal code
D.9 Country
Czech Republic
D.10 Fax
+420 224320269
D.11 Phone
+420 224355207
D.12 General e-mail address
info@cesnet.cz
D.13 Website
http://www.cesnet.cz, http://www.ces.net
D.14 Convention used for individual e-mail addresses
firstname.lastname@cesnet.cz; individual e-mail addresses are allowed.
D.15 Year the first research network operations started
1993
D.16 Year in which research networking was started as a dedicated organisational unit
1996
D.17 Year in which the NREN was founded in its current form
1996
D.18 Short description of the history of the organisation
http://www.ces.net/doc/history.html

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
D.21 Description of the governing structure of the NREN
Owners: 25 Czech universities and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

General Assembly - is nominated by the owners.
Board of Directors - is elected by the General Assembly.
Supervisory Board - is elected by the General Assembly.
Managing Director - is appointed by the Board of Directors.
D.22 URL to description of the governing structure
http://www.ces.net/about
D.23 Senior management team
CEO Dr. Title Jan First name Guntorád Last name
Managing Director Job Title

E-mail address
CEO 2 Title First name Last name
Job Title

E-mail address
CTO Ing. Title Helmut First name Sverenyák Last name
Research and Development Manager Job Title

Helmut.Sverenyak@cesnet.cz E-mail address
CTO 2 Ing. Title Václav First name Novák Last name
Network Manager Job Title

novakv@cesnet.cz E-mail address
OTHER Title First name Last name
Job Title

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
The major changes during the past year are:
- DWDM and static DWDM deployment to the new optical lines
- multidegree ROADM implementation
- multipoint ethernet transport over the DWDM (XPonder-L2/DWDM) and VPLS

The main planned changes for the coming year are:
- new terabit "carrier class" router deployment in the CESNET2 IP/MPLS network core
- pilot 40Gbit/s IP/MPLS line Prague-Brno over DWDM network
- static CLA DWDM over one fiber
- network redundancy and reliability enhancement (splitting Prague PoP in two locations)
D.25 Feedback
Remarks or further information regarding this section

TERENA NREN Compendium 2008 Basic Information

D: Basic Information

TERENA NREN Compendium 2008
Basic Information