TERENA NREN Compendium 2009
Basic Information

Updated: 26 January 2010 at 13:34
Organisation:
Users / Clients Services Traffic Technical Services Funding and Staffing Basic Information
  1. Bulgarian Research and Education Network Association
  2. Sdruzhenie Bulgarska Izsledovatelska i Obrazovatelna Mrezha
  3. BREN
  4. BIOM
  5. 6 Gourko Street
    Sofia 1000
  6.  
     
  7. Bulgaria
  8. +3592 870 72 73
  9. +3592 870 84 94, +359 2 949 2252
  10. boyanov@acad.bg
  11. www.bren.bg
  12. N/A
  13. 1989
  14. 1989
  15. 2006
  16.  
  17. (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
  18. ( )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
  20. The governing structure includes a Chairman, CEO, Board of Directors, Control Committee, and a General Assembly, members of which are the Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications, the Council of Bulgarian Universities  Rectors, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and National Reserch Network Association
  21. http://bren.bg/en/?page_id=12
  22. ( )Yes (x)No
  23.  
  24. (x)Yes ( )No
  25. http://bren.bg/en/?page_id=17
  26. ( )Yes (x)No
  27.  
  28. ( )Yes (x)No
  29.  
  30. ( )Yes (x)No
  31. ( )Yes (x)No
  32.  
  33. ( )Yes (x)No
  34. http://www.bren.acad.bg/en/?page_id=15
  35. (x)Yes ( )No
  36. http://netmon.acad.bg/
  37. A major achivement has been accomplished during 2009. The National backbone of the network has been upgraded to capacity of 1Gbit/s. Topology also changed to form a ring across the country, allowning for failover. Similar development was accomplished in a smaller scale in the backbone within the metro area of Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria. In Sofia Dark Fiber has been leased, creating another network ring which connects 7 large state universities in Sofia. Currently the network backbone is entirely based on Gigabit Ethernet.