TERENA NREN Compendium - Record Detail

	TERENA COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL NETWORKS IN EUROPE, 2001

BASIC INFORMATION
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
STAFFING
FINANCES, BUDGET
USER BASE
CAPACITY AND PLANS
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS

Section one:	BASIC INFORMATION
Full name of the organisation (in English:)	BELNET, The Belgian National Research Network
Full name of the organisation in the national language(s):	(NL): Belgisch telematicaonderzoeksnetwerk, BELNET (FR): BELNET, Réseau télématique belge de la recherche
Abbreviation in the national language(s):	BELNET
Abbreviation in English:	BELNET


Postal address:	Rue de la Science 4
City/postal code:	1000 BRUSSELS
	Belgium
Year founded:	1989
Year operations started:	1993

Phone:	+32 2 790 33 33
Fax:	+32 2 790 33 34
Website:	http://www.belnet.be
General e-mail address:	info@belnet.be
Convention used for e-mail addresses:	firstname.lastname@belnet.be
	National Member
Since:	1989
Section two:	ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
Form of organisation:	Separate legal entity / Part of a Ministry /

Brief description of the governing structure:	BELNET is a semi-independent government agency created within the Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs.


Number of clients:	130

Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s):	Ir. Pierre Bruyère
	Director


Section three:	STAFFING
Total number of staff:	10
Number of paid staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs):	9.5
Number of Technical Staff in FTE:	4.5


Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE:	5
Name of contact person for PR matters:	Mr. Jan Torreele
	Network Engineer
E-mail:	Jan.Torreele@belnet.be
Number of user support and training staff in FTE:	0
Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors:	3
Total amount of effort in person/months per year:	144
Remarks:	No head of technical staff; send messages to <sst@belnet.be>
Section four:	FINANCES, BUDGET
Total budget of last financial year (in euro):	8.5 M
Total budget current financial year (in euro):	11.5 M
Proportion of budget for recurrent expenditure:	>75%
- from the Government:	>75%

- from the users:	<25%



Proportion of budget for investment:	<25%








Percentage of investment budget for network equipment:	>75%



Section five:	USER BASE
Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN:	100
Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN:	20
Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN:	0
Number of institutions connected:	130
Institutions divided over:
- industry, commerce, industrial research:	<10%
- tertiary education and research:	51-75%
- higher/further education:	11-25%


- government agencies and ministries:	11-25%


Section six:	CAPACITY AND PLANS
Current core network capacity in Mbps:	155-622
Total volume of traffic through the network last year (in Tb):	500
Traffic per university student (in Gb/yr):	6.25
Core capacity in Mb/s x km:	60,000
Technology used for the core network:	IP over ATM.
Planned technical changes:	IP over optical
Expected core capacity in two years:	20 times as much
Expected increase in core capacity in 5 years:	1000 times as much
Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps):	155 Mbps
Expected access capacity in two years time:	20 times as much
Expected increase in the access capacity in 5 years:	1000 times as much
Adequateness of coverage:	We have sufficient coverage in the entire country
Map of network topology:	http://www.belnet.be/about/pages/arch-topo_uk.html
Recent network traffic statistics:	200 Mbit/s external access, daily peak

Current capacity to Europe (in Mpbs:	200
Current capacity to the US and the rest of the world:	900
Current capacity to Internet2:	155
Expected capacity to Europe in two years' time (in Mbps):	2.5 Gbps
Expected capacity to the US and the rest of the world in two years' time (in Mbps):	2.5 Gbps
Expected capacity to Internet2 in 2 years:	622 Mbps
Method of peering with the commercial Internet:	Global transit: 900 Mbit/s BNIX: 1.25 Gbit/s (peering) AMS-IX: 34 Mbit/s (peering)
Involvement in Internet Exchange Point:	BELNET has created, and still hosts and manages the BNIX, the Belgian National Internet Exchange. The BNIX currently has over 40 participants (commercial ISPs - see http://www.bnix.net/).
Remarks:	Gigabit national backbone (mid 2001) Presence at AMS-IX (155 Mbit/s), LINX (155 Mbit/s), SFINX (155 Mbit/s), all mid 2001 Presence at US East Coast (155 Mbit/s)(April 2001)
Section seven:	SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
Services provided:
- Basic IP provision:	Done in-house
- User support:	Done by others
- NOC:	Done in-house

- Security incident response:	Done in-house


Other services:	BELNET also does the provision of the standard services (news, ftp, DNS, mail relay, ntp, WWW, etc.) in house.
Transmission services provided:	No.
Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy:	http://www.belnet.be/about/pages/aup_uk.html
Current interests:	SDH / Giga Ethernet / IPv6 Service Implementation / Directory Services / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Multicast / CERT incident coordination / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / Capacity planning, statistics / Web Server management /
Essential future interests:	SDH / WDM / Gigabit Testbed access / Diffserv/Qos / IPv6 Service Implementation /
Potential future interests:	Wireless LAN / Mobile Access /

Not interested in:	IPv6 Development / User authentication / CERT services / Teaching and learning methods / Information Content management
Joint projects with/on:	Collaboration with Internet2 (MoU signed 1998) Participation Géant
Expectations from TERENA in any of these areas:	Information gathering and communication with other NRNs.

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TERENA COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL RESEARCH

AND EDUCATIONAL NETWORKS IN EUROPE, 2001

Belgium