TERENA NREN Compendium 2009
Funding and Staffing

Updated: 14 July 2009 at 16:03

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Users / Clients

Services

Traffic

Technical Services

Funding and Staffing

Basic Information

E1. Is the budget year equal to the calendar year?
(x)Yes ( )No
E2. If NO, please provide the dates between which the budget runs:
Start

End
E3. What was your organization's total budget for 2008 (or 2008/2009)? (please use millions of euro at the current exchange rate)
25.000
E4. How much of the 2008 budget was dedicated directly to NREN activities? (in millions of euro at the current exchange rate):
8.000
Note on NREN Activities: some NRENs provide services only to the Research or Education communities in their country. Others provide services to other sectors as well, for example because they administer the country-code tld.
In order to permit like-for-like comparisons in this section, please regard 'NREN-Activities' as those activities For the sake of comparability, we would like to ask you to provide information only about the activities for the Research or Education communities in your country in this section.
E5. What is your organization's total budget for 2009 (or 2009 / 2010) (in millions of euro at the current exchange rate):
29.000
E6. How much of the 2009 budget is dedicated to the NREN activities (in millions of euro at the current exchange rate):
8.000
E7. Is your organization able to develop multi-annual budgets or multi-annual plans?
(x)Yes ( )No
E8. If YES, please briefly describe how this operates
Limited possibility for multi-annual plans in major investments like network upgrades, together with Ministry of Education (utilizing ministry strategies etc.).
E9. Please give estimate of the sources of your NREN-related income ( for 2008 or 2008/2009):

Source Percentage of income

Users / Clients 45%

Government / public bodies 50%

The EU (e.g. for Framework Programme projects) 1%

Other sources 4%
E10. Does this budget includes the amount of the EU subsidy for GN2 the NREN receives?
( )Yes (x)No
E11. How do you charge your clients?
( )We do not charge them directly
( )We charge a flat fee, based on bandwidth
( )We charge a traffic-based fee
( )We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee
(x)Other (eg. some, but not all, please explain):
The price is based on organization size and type. Certain additional services are charged separately.
E12. What is the total number of paid staff directly employed by the organisation (not outsourced):
166
E13. What is the number of staff engaged in the NREN activities (see explanation above):
21
E14. Some of the staff could be working part-time. We would like to know the number of staff as given in above, but in full-time equivalents (FTEs):
21
E15. On average, how many people (in FTE) are working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis (for NREN activities)?
0

Source	Percentage of income
Users / Clients	45%
Government / public bodies	50%
The EU (e.g. for Framework Programme projects)	1%
Other sources	4%

E16. Please provide a breakdown of the staff engaged in NREN activities (in FTEs):

	Breakdown of staff directly employed by the organisation	Breakdown of personnel employed by others (outsourced)
NOC	14
Other technical staff
Administrative and financial staff	7
User support and training staff
Others not included elsewhere
Total
	21	0

E17. Please give as an indication of the main expenditure categories in your budget (for 2008 or 2008/2009)

Expenditure Category Percentage

Salaries and general office costs 20%

Equipment 10%

Transmission capacity 60%

Other 10%

Expenditure Category	Percentage
Salaries and general office costs	20%
Equipment	10%
Transmission capacity	60%
Other	10%

E18. Please indicate how much of the following network levels (equipment + transmission capacity + manpower) are paid for through the NREN budget (and not by some other body):
(please mark n/a if this level does not exist in your network)

Level	Percentage of the budget that is spent on this	Estimated percentage of the total cost of this that is paid through the NREN budget
External connections	20	100
NREN backbone	80	100
Access network
Metropolitan or regional networks
Campus LAN

Remarks or further information regarding this section
These estimations were really difficult to do because we categorise our budgets and operations in a very different way.

TERENA NREN Compendium 2009 Funding and Staffing

TERENA NREN Compendium 2009
Funding and Staffing