TERENA NREN Compendium 2012
Basic Information

Updated: 14 June 2012 at 16:42
Organisation:
Client Institutions Connectivity and Traffic Middleware Services Collaboration Support Services Funding and Staffing Basic Information
  1. Foundation for National Scientific Computing
  2. Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional
  3. FCCN
  4. FCCN
  5. Avenida do Brasil, 101
    1700-066 LISBOA
  6. FCCN, Apartado 50435
    1708-001 Lisboa
  7. Portugal
  8. +351 21 847 21 67
  9. +351 21 844 01 00
  10. secretaria@fccn.pt
  11. http://www.fccn.pt
  12. 1990
  13. 1990
  14. 1987
  15. http://www.fccn.pt
  16. (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
  17.  
  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 activity plan and budget for each year is prepared by the Executive Board and approved by a General Board.
    The daily operation is managed by the Executive Board.
  21. http://www.fccn.pt/en/fccn/what-is-fccn/corporate-bodies/
  22. FCCN has a long relation with the NREN networks and communities of Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Principe and East Timor. This cooperation is always evolving and covers a wide scope of subjects, namely DSN services, digital libraries, connectivity and security. FCCN was or is partner of the following EU projects that involved NRENs outside of the GÉANT area: 6NET, 6DISS, 6DEPLOY, CAESAR, ALICE, ALICE2, AfricaConnect and ELLA.
  23. (x)Yes ( )No
  24. http://www.fccn.pt/en/academic-network/the-science-technology-and-society-network/aup/
  25. (x)Yes ( )No
  26. http://www.fccn.pt/en/academic-network/the-science-technology-and-society-network/#!/en/academic-network/the-science-technology-and-society-network/terms-of-use/
  27. ( )Yes (x)No
  28.  
  29. (x)Yes ( )No
  30. ( )Yes (x)No
  31.  
  32. ( )Yes (x)No ( )Planned
  33.  
  34.  
  35. The most important change in the past year was funding. The economic situation of Portugal is a big challenge for any institution that relies on public funding. To get our operations as efficient as possible was or main objective last year. This will be a major concern in the current and future years.
  36. We think that the compendium is geting better each year. But it would be usefull to have more help text explaining rigorously what is intended with each technical question.
    We had some dificulties with the following questions:
    B4. What percentage of the total kilometric length of the network does this (installed dark fiber) represent?
    Is this supposed to compare kilometric length of dark fiber with kilometric length of leased circuits? How do we know the length of leased circuits, provided by telcos? Should we use strait lines on the map? If yes, should we also use strait lines on the map for the dark fiber, or linear distances?
    B.14 Operational external IP connections at the end of January 2012 (usable links excluding backup links):
    There should be a way to state when multiple peering share the same physical link (10G port).
    B27. What percentage of your IPv6 address allocation did you assign to your client institutions so far?
    This question puzzled us, because we reached the number of 0.119% as the percentage of our IPv6 address space allocated to our client institutions. Is this result OK?