TERENA NREN Compendium 2008
Basic Information

Updated: 16 May 2008 at 12:51

D: Basic Information
D.1 Full name of the organisation (in English)
UNI-C, Forskningsnettet
D.2 Full name of the organisation in the national language(s)
UNI-C, Forskningsnettet
D.3 Abbreviation in English
UNI-C
D.4 Abbreviation in the national language(s)
UNI-C
D.5 Visiting address
DTU Bldg. 304 Street

2800 Kgs. LYNGBY City/postal code
D.7 Postal address
Street

City/postal code
D.9 Country
Denmark
D.10 Fax
+45 35 87 89 90
D.11 Phone
+45 35 87 88 89
D.12 General e-mail address
info@forskningsnettet.dk
D.13 Website
http://www.forskningsnettet.dk/eng/
D.14 Convention used for individual e-mail addresses
No standard convention is used
D.15 Year the first research network operations started
1985
D.16 Year in which research networking was started as a dedicated organisational unit
1985
D.17 Year in which the NREN was founded in its current form
2000
D.18 Short description of the history of the organisation
http://www.denet.dk/history

D.19 Form of organisation
( )Separate legal entity of its own
(x)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
For Forskningsnet: Danish ministry of Science,Technology and Innovation, For UNI-C: Danish ministry of Education
D.20 What is the formal relationship between the organisation and the government?
(x)We are a government agency or part of a ministry
( )The Government appoints at least half of the members of our Governing body
( )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
The Danish ministry of Science,Technology and Innovation has the overall political responsibility. They have nominated a committee, named Styregruppen, which is the management team of the NRN. The committee has members from a number of the largest user organisations on the net.

The daily management is performed by a secretariat named Netsekretariatet.
The operation of the network is managed by UNI-C.

The total organisation can be seen (in danish) at www.forskningsnettet.dk/org
D.22 URL to description of the governing structure
http://www.forskningsnettet.dk/org
D.23 Senior management team
CEO Mr. Title Ole First name Kjaergaard Last name
Technical Vice President Job Title

E-mail address
CEO 2 Prof. Title Steen First name Pedersen Last name
Head of Administration Unit Job Title

E-mail address
CTO Mr. Title Jan First name Ferré Last name
Network Caretaker Job Title

Jan.Ferre@uni-c.dk E-mail address
CTO 2 Mr. Title Peter First name Juul Last name
Backbone Manager Job Title

peter.juul@uni-c.dk 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
Next upgrade (autumn 2008) will be dark fibre infrastructure with dwdm instead of leased circuits.

Danish universities have been through a major consolidation reducing the number of universities. This poses requests for using the NREN network to interlink universities at LAN-level.
D.25 Feedback
Many many many strange acronyms!
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TERENA NREN Compendium 2008 Basic Information

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TERENA NREN Compendium 2008
Basic Information