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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:) | Estonian Educational and Research Network |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): | Eesti Hariduse ja Teaduse Andmesidevrõrk |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | EENet |
| Abbreviation in English: | EENet |
| Postal address: | Raekoja Plats 14 |
| City/postal code: | 51004 TARTU |
Estonia |
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| Year founded: | 1993 |
| Year operations started: | 1994 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: | http://www.eenet.ee |
| Phone: | +372 7 302 110 |
| Fax: | +372 7 302 111
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| Website: | http://www.eenet.ee |
| General e-mail address: | eenet@eenet.ee |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | firstname.surname@eenet.ee |
| National Member | |
| Since: | 1996 |
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Section two:
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ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION |
| Form of organisation: | Non-profit / At arm's length from Government |
| Members, shareholders and/or owners of the organisation: | EENet is a public institution operating under the administration of the Ministry of Education. |
| Brief description of the governing structure: | The operation of EENet is managed by the Director, who is assigned by the Minister of Education. EENet has the following structural units: Customer Service, Network Development and Technical Department and local service centres.
The Board of EENet, consisting of the representatives of educational, research, cultural, governmental and other institutions, is counselling the operation of EENet. |
| Number of clients: | 611 |
| Remarks: | As a state-owned institution EENet offers its services to educational, research and cultural establishments located in Estonia.
The other important requirement is that the establishment must refrain from commercial activities in the educational and research network. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Mr. Mihkel Kraav |
| Director | |
| Ms. Anne Märdimäe | |
| Head of Customer Services Department | |
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Section three:
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STAFFING |
| Total number of staff: | 30 |
| Number of paid staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 25 |
| Number of Technical Staff in FTE: | 2.5 |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Urmas Lett |
| E-mail: | Urmas.Lett@eenet.ee |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 2.5 |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Ms. Maria Ristkok |
| Secretary | |
| E-mail: | Maria.Ristkok@eenet.ee |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 20 |
| Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors: | 300 |
| Remarks: | Neeme Vool - Head of Development Department . |
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Section four:
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FINANCES, BUDGET |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 717,983 |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 719,964 |
| Proportion of budget for recurrent expenditure: | >75% |
- from the Government: |
>75% |
- from foundations and charitable bodies: |
<25% |
| Proportion of budget for investment: | <25% |
- from the Government: |
>75% |
- from other sources: |
<25% |
| Percentage of investment budget for network equipment: | >75% |
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Section five:
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USER BASE |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | 60 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | 60 |
| Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: | 55 |
| Number of institutions connected: | 542 |
| Institutions divided over: | |
- industry, commerce, industrial research: |
<10% |
- tertiary education and research: |
25 - 50% |
- higher/further education: |
25 - 50% |
- secondary education: |
25 - 50% |
- libraries: |
11-25% |
- government agencies and ministries: |
<10% |
- others: |
<10% |
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Section six:
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CAPACITY AND PLANS |
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 24 |
| Total volume of traffic through the network last year (in Tb): | 1000 |
| Traffic per university student (in Gb/yr): | 20 |
| Technology used for the core network: | ATM |
| Planned technical changes: | We are planing to join with GEANT project. |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | 8 times as much |
| Expected increase in core capacity in 5 years: | 30 times as much |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 8 |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 12 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.eenet.ee/EENet/vorgukaart.html |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | http://cache.eenet.ee/eenet/ |
| Current capacity to Europe (in Mpbs: | 16 Mbps, connected through NORDUNet |
| Expected capacity to Europe in two years' time (in Mbps): | 310 |
| Expected capacity to the US and the rest of the world in two years' time (in Mbps): | >=155 Mbps |
| Expected capacity to Internet2 in 2 years: | >= 155 Mbps |
| Method of peering with the commercial Internet: | Tallinn, 100M ethernet |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | 1) There is a neutral interconnection point in Tallinn, Estonia - managed by Estonian Telephone LTD.
2) Interconnected are EENet, Uninet, Estonian Telecom, ASOnet, Esdata, KPNQwest. |
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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 |
- Directory services: |
Done in-house |
- Security incident response: |
Done in-house |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: | http://www.eenet.ee/services/index.html |
| Current interests: | Wireless LAN / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Capacity planning, statistics / Web Server management / Web Server usage analysis / Information Content management |
| Essential future interests: | Giga Ethernet / Gigabit Testbed access / Diffserv/Qos / Multicast / Teaching and learning methods / |
| Potential future interests: | IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Implementation / Directory Services / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / |
| Will follow other NRENs on: | WDM / User authentication / Mobile Access / |
| Not interested in: | SDH / |
| Joint projects with/on: | GEANT |
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