At the connectivity services level 2010 was a year for the completion and operation of the new optical network, covering a major part of the whole NREN. A new tender for leased circuits was launched, to be implemented in 2011, with significant costs improvements. The aggregated installed IP capacity had a big increase, from 42G to 70G, mainly due to upgrades in many dark fiber accesses to 10G. The 2nd CBF connection to Spain, through Valença was prepared. The 1st one, through Badajoz, remained operational, with no major changes.
In the security area there was a huge increase (570%) at the CERT.PT activity, due to the enlargement of its jurisdiction to the whole national cyberspace. At the AAI level, the major development was the quick increase in the available AAI Identity Providers up to 25 connected entities.
In the VoIP area a major push towards using ENUM was the main change, ending the year with 35.838 numbers published.
Other major changes occurred in the application area, with the launching of new media services, namely EDUCAST and COLIBRI. EDUCAST is similar to Switch (Swiss NREN) SWITCHCAST service and COLIBRI is a web conference service. The Open Access project (RCAAP), that enables the free access to scientific articles produced by the national scientific community, was also quite successful, with a 28% increase in the number of repositories, and 38% increase in the number of Portuguese available articles. Cooperation with Brazil allowed for an additional 72% increase in the number of available articles.
