SURVEY: TERENA COMPENDIUM OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORKING, 2002

TSec(02)004

DEADLINE FOR COMPLETION: 15 February 2002!

Section one: BASIC INFORMATION

Full name of the organisation (in English):

Full name of the organisation in the national language(s) (please use the Latin alphabet):

Abbreviation in English (if applicable):

Abbreviation in the national language(s):

Visiting address:

City/postal code:

Postal address (if different):

City/postal code:

Country:

Year founded:

Year network operations started:

If you have a short description of the history of your organisation on your website, please provide a URL to it:

Fax:

Phone:

General e-mail address:

Website:

Convention used for individual e-mail addresses:

(please specify/explain, eg. [firstname].[lastname]@[NRENname].[cTLD] …)

Remarks about Section one:

Section two: ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

Form of organisation (mark all that apply):

[ ] Not a separate legal entity

[ ] Separate legal entity

[ ] Research/education organisation: part of a) university, research institution, etc.)

[ ] Governmental organisation (govt. dept., agency or organisation under govt. umbrella, etc.)

[ ] For-profit organisation, but established and owned by (a) public authority/ies

[ ] For-profit organisation, private ownership (either directly or through shares)

[ ] Other non-profit organisation

Who are the organisational members, founders, shareholders and/or owners of the organisation?

(Please translate acronyms into English.)

How many of these organisational member, founders, shareholders and/or owners does your organisation have?

Does your organisation also have individuals as members (other than Board members)?

[ ] Yes [ ] No

If yes, how many?

Please briefly describe the governing structure of your NREN:

Are you involved in one way or another in the development of your cctld or in domain names? Do you participate, for example, in any of the RIPE working groups? If so, please give some details.

Please give the title(s), first name(s), last name(s) and job title(s) of your Chief Executive Officer(s):

Please give the title(s), first name(s), last name(s) and job title(s) of the Head of your Technical Staff:

What is(are) his/her direct e-mail address(es)?

Who could TERENA use as contact person for information and PR-matters? (Please give first name, last name, job title);

What is his/her direct e-mail address?

Remarks regarding Section two:

Section three: STAFFING

What is the total number of paid staff directly employed by or for your organisation? (Please do not include staff that is entirely working for activities not directly related to R&E networking, eg. the budget for activities such as Domain Name registration services for parties outside the NREN)

What is the number of such staff in full-time equivalents (FTEs)?

What is the number of such technical staff in FTEs?

On average, how many people (in FTE) are working for the organization as subcontractors or on outsourced basis at any one time?

On average, how many such people (in FTE) are technical staff?

What is the number of administrative and financial staff in FTEs?

What is the number of user support and training staff in FTEs?

Please estimate the total amount of effort in person/months per year that is spent by or through your organisation (e.g. directly employed staff in FTE x 12 plus subcontracted staff in FTE x 12):

Remarks regarding Section three:

Section four: FINANCES, BUDGET

Is your budget year equal to the calendar year? [ ] YES

[ ] NO, it runs from ……………. to ………………….

What was the total budget for 2001 (or 2001/2002)? (In millions of euro at the current exchange rate) (please do not include your budget for activities not directly related to R&E networking, eg. the budget for activities such as Domain Name registration services for parties outside the NREN)

What is the total budget for 2002 (or 2002/2003)? (In millions of euro at the current exchange rate)

Please give us an indication of the sources of your income (for 2002 or 2002/2003) and whether the income is restricted (earmarked) income or free for you to spend within the mandate given to your organisation:

Source	Percentage of income	Restricted	Free
Government/public bodies
Users
Other sources

How do you charge your clients?

[ ] We do not charge them directly

[ ] We charge a flat fee, based on bandwidth

[ ] We charge a traffic-based fee

[ ] We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee

[ ] Other:

Please give us an indication of the main expenditure categories in your budget (for 2002 or 2002/2003). (Note: if the headings suggested below do not fit well with your budgeting system, please feel free to supply us with a breakdown of the main expense categories in your budget as actually used by you.)

Expenditure category	Percentage
Salaries and general office costs
Equipment and software costs
Transmission (data communications)
Other

How do you obtain your data communications capacity?

Nationally	Internationally
We have a contract with one provider	Through the GÉANT project
We have contracts with several providers	Through contract(s) with (a) provider(s)
We own our own network	Other:
Other:

Remarks/comments regarding Section four:

Section five: USER BASE

Please give an estimate of the percentage of students in your country that can have Internet access through your organisation (please refer to the ISCED classification scheme; more information about this is at http://www.terena.nl/compendium/faq.html#isced):

- of those in University (ISCED levels 5 and 6) education:

- of those in higher/further (ISCED level 4) education:

- of those in secondary (ISCED levels 2 and 3) education:

- of those in primary (ISCED level 1) education:

Please give us an indication of where there is congestion (if at all) within the national network. Please rank from most to least congested and, if possible, estimate the percentage of client institutions which experience congestion in those locations

Rank Est. percentage

1 = most congested, 5 = least congested

[ ] [ %] Campus LAN

[ ] [ %] Metropolitan or regional network

[ ] [ %] Access network

[ ] [ %] NREN backbone

[ ] [ %] External connections

Please indicate either the number or the percentage of institutions connected to your network in each of the following manners:

[ ] directly connected to a POP on the NREN

[ ] connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by the NREN

[ ] connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party

[ ] other :

How many institutions within your NREN have a, permanent connection?

How many of the connected institutions are Universities?

Estimated percentage of the universities in your country that are connected to your NREN via permanent connection:

How many of the connected institutions are institutes providing higher or further education (but not Universities)?

Estimated percentage of the institutes of higher and further education in your country that are connected to your NREN via permanent connection:

Remarks regarding Section five:

Section six: CAPACITY, TRAFFIC AND PLANS

What is the current core usable backbone capacity on your network (in Mbit/s)?

What was the total volume of traffic that went through your network in 2001 (in Terabytes)?

How much of this was outbound external traffic?

How much of this was inbound external traffic?

What was the total volume of traffic that went through your network in January 2002 (in Terabytes)?

How much of this was outbound external traffic?

How much of this was inbound external traffic?

Can you give the current usable backbone capacity on your network in Mbit/s x km (capacity multiplied by length of the backbone network)?

What is the current typical access capacity of a large site on your network?

By what factor do you expect that this capacity will increase in two years' time?

Please provide a map of the topography of your network (or a URL to such a map):

Please provide some basic statistics about longer-term trends in traffic growth (or a URL) (we would prefer the total amount of traffic switched per quarter over the past two years):

Please give us a list of the operational external connections you had in January 2002:

To where:

Usable capacity in Mbit/s:

What external connections do you expect to add or upgrade during 2002?

To where:

Usable capacity in Mbit/s:

What operational external connections do you expect to have in January 2004?

To where:

Usable capacity in Mbit/s:

Which technology do you use predominantly on your core network? (ATM, SDH, Ethernet etc):

What are you planning to change in the next two years?

By what factor do you expect that your core usable backbone capacity will increase in two years' time?

Do you run or are you otherwise involved with an Internet Exchange Point? If so, with which? What is your involvement?

Please provide a URL:

Remarks regarding Section six:

Section seven: SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS

Which services do you perform as a network? Which have been outsourced by you?

Basic IP provision [ ] Done by NREN [ ] Outsourced [ ] Done by others [ ] Not done

User support [ ] Done by NREN [ ] Outsourced [ ] Done by others [ ] Not done

NOC [ ] Done by NREN [ ] Outsourced [ ] Done by others [ ] Not done

Directory services [ ] Done by NREN [ ] Outsourced [ ] Done by others [ ] Not done

Security incident response [ ] Done by NREN [ ] Outsourced [ ] Done by others [ ] Not done

PKI/CA [ ] Done by NREN [ ] Outsourced [ ] Done by others [ ] Not done

Annual Conferences [ ] Done by NREN [ ] Outsourced [ ] Done by others [ ] Not done

Other services:

Please summarize your Acceptable Use Policy and/or your Connection Policy, or provide a URL for the AUP and/or the Connection Policy on your website:

What are your interest areas in research/development and future service deployment?

	Current	Essential future	Potential future development	Will follow other NRENs	No interest
Infrastructure
SDH
Giga Ethernet
Lambda Testbed access
Lambda Service Deployment
Wireless LAN
Diffserv/QoS
MPLS Service Deployment
Ipv6 Development
Ipv6 Service Deployment
Middleware
User authentication
In house PKI development/deployment
In house Certification Authority
Directory Services
Caching/Indexing/Mirroring
Multicast
Mobile Access (Persistence of presence)
Security
CERT services
CERT incident coordination
Application level
Teaching and learning methods
Video Conferencing
Streaming Media
Management
Traffic Monitoring
Charging / billing systems
Web Server content management
Web Server usage analysis
Information Content indexing
Others (please specify:)

Please give a brief description of any international joint projects you participate in with third parties or with other NRENs (or URLs to the home pages of such projects):

What do you expect from TERENA in any of these areas?

Remarks regarding Section seven:

Any other remarks, suggestions or ideas:

Form completed by:

Date of completion:

Thank you for your assistance!

Please return before the 15^th of February to: <pinxteren@terena.nl>