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TERENA COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL RESEARCHAND EDUCATIONAL NETWORKS IN EUROPE, 2001 |
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Section one:
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BASIC INFORMATION |
| Full name of the organisation (in English:) | UNI-C, Forskningsnettet |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | UNI-C, Forskningsnettet |
| Postal address: | DTU Bldg. 304 |
| City/postal code: | DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby |
Denmark |
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| Year founded: | 1985 |
| Year operations started: | 1987 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: | http://www.denet.dk/history |
| Phone: | +45 35 87 88 89 |
| Fax: | +45 35 87 89 90
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| Website: | http://www.forskningsnettet.dk |
| General e-mail address: | info@forskningsnettet.dk |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | No standard convention is used |
| National Member | |
| Since: | 1985 |
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Section two:
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ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION |
| Form of organisation: | Part of a Ministry / |
| Members, shareholders and/or owners of the organisation: | Regarding Forskningsnettet: The members are mainly universities, research institutes and research departments of companies |
| Brief description of the governing structure: | The Danish ministry of Information Technology and Research has the overall economical and political responsibility. They have nominated a committee, named Styregruppen, which is the management team of the NRN. The committee has members from a number of the largest user organisations on the net. The daily management is performed by a secretariat named Netsekretariatet. The operation of the network is managed by UNI-C. The total organisation can be seen (in danish) at www.forskningsnettet.dk/org. |
| Number of participants (members, shareholders): | 120 |
| Individuals, organisations or both: | Organisations |
| Remarks: | Forskningsnettet is operated by UNI-C. UNI-C is owned by the Danish Ministry of Education. t The Research Network, named Forskningsnettet, is owned by the Danish Ministry of Information Technology and Research. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Mr. Ole Kjaergaard |
| Network Operations Manager | |
| Prof. Steen Pedersen | |
| Head of Administration Unit | |
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Section three:
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STAFFING |
| Total number of staff: | 7 |
| Number of paid staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 7 |
| Number of Technical Staff in FTE: | 6 |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Ole Kjaergaard |
| E-mail: | ole.kjaergaard@uni-c.dk |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 1 |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Prof. Steen Pedersen |
| Head of Administration Unit | |
| E-mail: | sp@it.dtu.dk |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | .5 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 84 |
| Remarks: | Staff at UNI-C in total: 260, at UNI-C working with the NRN: 7. |
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Section four:
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FINANCES, BUDGET |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 6.3 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 5.3 M |
| Proportion of budget for recurrent expenditure: | >75% |
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25 - 50% |
- from the EU: |
<25% |
- from the users: |
51-75% |
- from companies / the commercial sector: |
<25% |
- from foundations and charitable bodies: |
<25% |
- from other sources: |
<25% |
| Proportion of budget for investment: | <25% |
- from the Government: |
25 - 50% |
- from the EU: |
<25% |
- from users: |
51-75% |
- from companies / the commercial sector: |
<25% |
- from foundations / charitable bodies: |
<25% |
- from other sources: |
<25% |
| Percentage of investment budget for transmission: | 25 - 50% |
| Percentage of investment budget for applications: | <10% |
| Percentage of investment budget for network equipment: | 25 - 50% |
| Percentage of investment budget for development: | <10% |
| Percentage of investment budget for other purposes: | <10% |
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Section five:
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USER BASE |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | 100 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | 95 - 100 |
| Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: | 0 |
| Number of institutions connected: | 120 |
| Institutions divided over: | |
- industry, commerce, industrial research: |
<10% |
- tertiary education and research: |
51-75% |
- higher/further education: |
<10% |
- secondary education: |
<10% |
- libraries: |
<10% |
- government agencies and ministries: |
<10% |
- others: |
<10% |
| Remarks: | Budget last year included a substantial backbone upgrade. |
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Section six:
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CAPACITY AND PLANS |
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 822 |
| Core capacity in Mb/s x km: | 450000 |
| Technology used for the core network: | SDH and Ethernet |
| Planned technical changes: | Capacity upgrade of lines in the Copenhagen area and upgrade of the main PoP in Lyngby to at least Gigabit Ethernet between main routers |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | At PoP's present connected at 822Mbit/s: no increase. At PoP's present connected at 100Mbit/s: 6-10 times increase |
| Expected increase in core capacity in 5 years: | At PoP's present connected at 822Mbit/s: 3 times increase. At PoP's present connected at 100Mbit/s: 10-100 times increase |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 200 Mbps |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 5 times as much |
| Expected increase in the access capacity in 5 years: | 50 times as much |
| Adequateness of coverage: | We have sufficient coverage in the entire country |
| Map of network topology: | http://www.forskningsnettet.dk/backbone |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | http://www.forskningsnettet.dk/kort |
| Current capacity to Europe (in Mpbs: | We are using NORDUnet for this |
| Current capacity to the US and the rest of the world: | As NORDUnet |
| Current capacity to Internet2: | As NORDUnet |
| Method of peering with the commercial Internet: | In Denmark at the DIX (The Danish Internet eXchange), Internationally via NORDUnet |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | UNI-C operates the DIX |
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Section seven:
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SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS |
| Services provided: | |
- Basic IP provision: |
Done in-house |
- User support: |
Done in-house |
- NOC: |
Done in-house |
- Security incident response: |
Done in-house |
- Annual Conferences: |
Done in-house |
Other services: |
No central directory services or PKI/CA |
| Transmission services provided: | Terrestrial: dark fibre Radio: 34 Mbps microwave links Soon: FWA |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: | Unfortunately only in danish: www.fsk.dk/cgi-bin/doc-show.cgi?doc_id=11055&doc_type=29 |
| Current interests: | SDH / WDM / Giga Ethernet / Wireless LAN / Diffserv/Qos / Multicast / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / Capacity planning, statistics / Web Server usage analysis / |
| Potential future interests: | Gigabit Testbed access / IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Implementation / User authentication / Directory Services / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Mobile Access / Web Server management / |
| Not interested in: | Teaching and learning methods / Information Content management |
| Joint projects with/on: | None at present |
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