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TERENA COMPENDIUM OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORKING,
2006
TSec(06)019
DEADLINE FOR COMPLETION: 22 April 2006!
Unless otherwise specified, please provide us with the data as of the 31 st of January, 2006 (or as close to
that as possible).Note that the information that you provide will be made public through the Compendium
website. E-mail addresses are encoded using javascript so they cannot be harvested by spambots . As
soon as you update a section, we will make the answers public. If you would like to avoid that, for example
because you would like to do some internal error checking first, please let us know. We will then make
information public only after you have given your explicit approval that this can be done.
Section one: USERS/CLIENTS
In this section, reference is made to the various levels of education. In using these, please refer to the
ISCED classification scheme; more information about this scheme is at
http://www.terena.nl/compendium/faq.html#isced). For the purposes of this Survey, ‘University’ level should
correspond to ISCED levels 5 and 6; ‘higher/further education’ corresponds to ISCED level 4; ‘secondary
education’ corresponds to ISCED levels 2 and 3 and ‘primary education’ to ISCED level 1.
1.1
Please give an estimate of the percentage of the institutions in each category in your
country that are served by your NREN (even if not all institutions receive the same services):
Type of institution
Are you allowed to serve
this type of institution?
[Yes | No ]
% of all institutions of this type
in your country served by your
NREN:
Universities
Institutes of higher/further
education
Research institutes
Secondary schools
Primary schools
Libraries, Museums,
National Archives
Hospitals (other than
University hospitals)
Government departments
(national, regional, local)
Others
If you connect others, please specify who (companies, individuals, etc.)
1.2
Do you have a Connection Policy on your website? [ ] YES
If yes, please provide the URL:
[ ] NO
1.3
Do you have an Acceptable Use Policy?
[ ] YES
If YES:
Is your AUP posted on your website?
[ ] YES
If yes, please provide the URL:
Has your AUP been changed in the last year?
[ ] YES
If yes, please summarise briefly how it has been changed:
[ ] NO
1.4
[ ] NO
[ ] NO
Please give a rough estimate of the methods by which the different types of institutions are
connected to your network:
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% connected to
a POP on the
NREN directly
or through a
MAN managed
by the NREN
% connected to
the NREN via a
regional or
metropolitan
network managed
by a third party
% connected to
the NREN via or
behind another,
connected
institution
%
connected
to the
NREN in
another
way:
Total
(should
be 100%)
Universities,
Institutes of
higher/further
education
Research
institutes
Secondary
schools
Primary schools
Others
1.5
If you connect (some of) your clients through regional or metropolitan networks (either managed by
you or managed by a third party), we would like to know what the usable capacity is of the connections
between those networks and your PoPs/routers. Please use as many lines as needed
Capacity of the connection to your PoP/router
1.6
Number of connections to from the MAN to your
PoPs/routers at this capacity
Please indicate the total number of connections to your NREN for each institutional
category, and give the percentage breakdown for each bandwidth class (note that we are
interested in the usable bandwidth)
Sites of:
Total
number of
connections
%
connected
through
ISDN or
lower
%
connec
ted at
up to 2
Mb/s
%
connec
ted at
>2 Mb
and ≤10
Mb/s
Universities
Institutes of
higher/
further
education
Research
institutes
Secondary
schools
Primary
schools
Libraries,
Museums,
National
Archives
Hospitals
(other than
University
hospitals)
Government
departments
(national,
regional,
local)
Others
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%
connec
ted at
>10 and
≤ 100
Mb/s
%
connec
ted at
>100
and <
1000
Mb/s
%
connec
ted at 1
Gb
%
connec
ted at >
1 Gb
and <
10 Gb/s
%
connec
ted at
10 Gb
or
above
1.7
Does your network currently support IPv6 or does it have plans for that? If so, please state
when support for IPv6 was or will be introduced.
1.7.1
1.7.2
As a pilot service:
As a production network service:
1.8
Please indicate the total number of sites that have IPv6 connectivity through your NREN for
the institutional categories listed below. A breakdown in percentage by the Ipv6 enabling
technology would be helpful.
Percentage connected via: (total should be 100%)
Sites of:
Total number
of IPv6
connections
% connected
with native
IPv6
% connected
via tunnelled
IPv6
%
connected
using 6to4
% connected
using tunnel
brokers
Universities
Institutes of
higher/further
education
Research
institutes
Secondary
schools
Primary
schools
Libraries,
Museums,
National
Archives
Hospitals
(other than
University
hospitals)
Government
departments
(national,
regional, local)
Others
1.9
Remarks or further information regarding section one:
Section two: NETWORK
In earlier years, we wanted information here about the part of your network where aggregate traffic flows,
not the access circuits. This year, we would like to receive information about the entire network that is
managed by your organisation, excluding links outside your national territory.
2.1
What is the number of PoPs on your network? (A PoP is defined here as a point on the NREN
backbone which can connect client networks or aggregations of client networks such as MANs, or
external networks.)
2.2.1
What is the number of managed sites on your network? (i.e. the number of sites where you1
manage routing or switching equipment.)
‘You’ in the context of this questionnaire means that it is the responsibility of the NREN and either carried
out by own staff or by a body to which this function has been outsourced by the NREN.
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1
2.2.2
What is the number of managed links (that carry production traffic) between the managed sites
on your network?
2.3
We would like to get a feeling for the aggregate capacity of your network. Please add the
bandwidth*distance products [in Gbit/s*km] for all your backbone. A rough estimate is
fine.
∑ linki*bandwidth(linki) =
2.4
We would like to know how you would describe your network in bandwidth terms. In other
words, what is the current typical core usable backbone capacity on your network? (Please
don’t count backup links in this.)
[ ] 2 Mbit/s or below
[ ] > 2 Mb/s, ≤ 34 Mb/s
[ ] > 34 Mb/s, ≤ 155 Mb/s
[ ] > 155 Mb/s, ≤ 622 Mb/s
[ ] > 622 Mb/s, ≤ 1.2 Gb/s
[ ] > 1.2 Gb/s, ≤ 5 Gb/s
[ ] > 5 Gb/s, ≤ 10 Gb/s
[ ] > 10 Gb/s
2.5
What do you think the situation will be in two years' time?
[ ] 2 Mbit/s or below
[ ] > 2 Mb/s, ≤ 34 Mb/s
[ ] > 34 Mb/s, ≤ 155 Mb/s
[ ] > 155 Mb/s, ≤ 622 Mb/s
[ ] > 622 Mb/s, ≤ 1.2 Gb/s
[ ] > 1.2 Gb/s, ≤ 5 Gb/s
[ ] > 5 Gb/s, ≤ 10 Gb/s
[ ] > 10 Gb/s
2.6
Please give us a list of the operational external connections you had in January 2006 (usable
links excluding backup links):
To which network:
- Direct to GÉANT:
- Direct to NORDUnet:
- To GÉANT via the SEEREN or EUMEDCONNECT project or
another NREN (please specify):
- Direct to other research (including e.g. to NRENs, CERN, StarLight,
Abilene) (please specify):
(Please add as many lines as needed) - Direct connections to the Commercial Internet (excluding Internet
Exchanges) (please specify):
(Please add as many lines as needed - Peerings, connections to Internet Exchanges (please specify):
Usable capacity in Mbit/s:
Total:
2.7
What external connections do you expect to add or change during 2006?
To which network (please specify as above):
2.8
Usable capacity in Mbit/s:
What operational external connections do you expect to have in January 2008?
To which network:
- Direct to GÉANT or NORDUnet or via
SEEREN/EUMEDCONNECT:
Usable capacity in Mbit/s:
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- Direct to other research (including e.g. to NRENs, CERN,
StarLight, Abilene):
- Direct connections to the Commercial Internet (excluding
Internet Exchanges):
- Peerings, connections to Internet Exchanges:
Total:
2.9
What cross-border dark fibre (CBF) links do you have or foresee that you will get in the near
future? Categories:
A)
to connect GÉANT2 countries not yet connected with dark fibre
B)
to serve the purposes of projects that involve more than two neighbouring countries
C)
interconnections between neighbouring NRENs or projects of clients of such NRENs
Category of CBF
(A, B or C – see
explanation)
Type of link, from
where to where?
Currently available –
please specify purpose:
production, testing,
backup, other:
Planned for the future –
please specify planned
start date and purpose:
production, testing,
backup, other:
2.10
Please provide the URL of a map of the topology of your network and/or (if different) a URL
to a weather map of your network:
2.11
Do you own or lease dark fibre? If so, please indicate in the table below what percentage of
your network (in kilometres in point-to-point distances) is dark fibre.
Note: total does not need to add up to 100%!
Present situation
Expected situation, early 2008
Owned, % of network
Leased or IRUs, % of network
2.12
Which technology or technologies do you use on the dark fibre?
If you use WDM, which one do you use?
[ ] DWDM
[ ] CWDM
Which framing do you use?
[ ] Ethernet frame
[ ] SDH frame
[ ] G.709 frame
2.13
What types of routers/switches do you have?
Vendor
2.14
Model
What types of transmission technology do you manage on your backbone?
Transmission technology
2.15
Vendor
Model
Remarks or further information regarding section two:
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Section three: TRAFFIC
In this section, we propose a distinction between different types of traffic by source or destination. Please
take a look at the figure below, which attempts to illustrate the distinctions in terminology.
NREN NETWORK
Customer
Connections
T1
T3
T2
ALL
EXTERNAL
NETWORKS
T4
T1 – all traffic from customer sites
T2 – all traffic to customer sites
T3 – all traffic to external networks
T4 – all traffic to the NREN backbone
External traffic = all traffic to GÉANT, the Commercial Internet, Internet exchanges, etc. (made up of T3
and T4 above)
3.1
Please give us an estimate of the total amount of external traffic (in Terabytes2) in 2005 as
defined in the picture above:
3.1.1 T3
TB
3.1.2
3.2
T2:
TB
Approximately what percentage of the T3 and T4 traffic as given above was to/from the
Commercial Internet?
3.3.1 T3
%
3.3.2
3.4
TB
If you have it available, we would also appreciate an estimate of the total amount of traffic in
Terabytes in 2005 of the other two types of traffic as defined above:
3.2.1 T1:
TB
3.2.2.
3.3
T4
T4
%
What was the volume of traffic to/from your network in January 2006 (in Terabytes)?
3.4.1
T3
TB
3.4.2
T4
TB
If available:
3.4.3
3.4.4
3.5
2
T1:
T2:
TB
TB
Please give us your rough estimate of where there is congestion (if any) in your network and
of the percentage of the total number of client institutions that are affected by congestion at
this level:
Note: 1 byte = 8 bits. Thus, a sustained average traffic of 1 Mb/s over one year equals 3.9 Terabyte.
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% of institutions
experiencing no
or very little
congestion 
% of institutions
experiencing
some or moderate
congestion 
% of institutions
experiencing
serious
congestion 
Total (should
be 100%)
Campus LAN
Metropolitan
or regional
network
Access
network
NREN
backbone
External
connections
3.6
Are you undertaking any activities to promote the use of IPv6? If so, which?
3.7
Does your network support IPv6 multicasting
[ ] Yes, on an experimental basis
[ ] Yes, as a production service
[ ] Not yet, but we are planning to introduce it in the next year or two
[ ] We do not plan to support this in the foreseeable future
3.8
Remarks or further information regarding section three:
Section four: FUNDING AND STAFFING
Some NRENs provide services only to the Research or Education communities in their country. Others
provide services to other sectors as well, for example because they administer the country-code tld. For the
sake of comparability, we would like to ask you to provide information only about the activities for the
Research or Education communities in your country in this section. For short, we have called these ‘NREN
activities’.
4.1
Is your budget year equal to the calendar year? [ ] YES
[ ] NO, it runs from ………. to ………………
4.2
What was your organisation’s total budget for 2005 (or 2005/2006)? (In millions of euro at the
current exchange rate)
4.3
How much of this budget was dedicated directly to NREN activities (see explanation above)?
(In millions of euro at the current exchange rate)
4.4
What is your organisation’s total budget for 2006 (or 2006/2007)? (In millions of euro at the
current exchange rate)
4.5
How much of this budget is dedicated to NREN activities? (In millions of euro at the current
exchange rate)
4.6
Please give us an estimate of the sources of your NREN-related income (for 2006 or
2006/2007)
Source
Users/clients
Government/public bodies
The EU (e.g. for Framework Programme projects)
Other sources
TOTAL
4.6.1
Percentage of income
100 %
Does this budget include the amount of the EU subsidy for GN2 that your NREN
receives?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
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4.7
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 (eg. some, but not all, please explain):
4.7.1
How do clients pay who are connected through a MAN or regional network?
[ ] They pay both to us and to the MAN or regional network
[ ] They pay one fee for their connection
[ ] They are not charged directly
[ ] Other, please explain:
4.8
What is the total number of paid staff directly employed by your organisation (not
outsourced)?
4.9
What is the number of staff engaged in NREN activities (see explanation above)?
4.10
Some of the staff could be working part-time. We would like to know the number of staff as
given in 4.9 above, but in full-time equivalents (FTEs):
4.11
On average, how many people (in FTE) are working for the organisation as subcontractors
or on outsourced basis (for NREN activities)?
4.12
Please provide a breakdown of the staff engaged in NREN activities (as defined above) (all in
FTEs):
Total personnel
NOC
Other Technical staff
Administrative and
financial staff
User support and training
staff
Others not included
elsewhere
Total (should be the same
as above)
4.13
Breakdown of staff working on
NREN activities directly
employed by your
organisation:
(take number from 4.10:)
Breakdown of personnel working on
NREN activities but employed by
others (outsourced):
(take number from 4.11:)
Please give us an indication of the main expenditure categories in your budget (for 2006 or
2006/2007).
Expenditure category
Salaries and general office costs
Equipment (switches, routers etc.)
Transmission capacity (IRUs, leased lines, optical
equipment etc.)
Other
4.14
Percentage
Please indicate how much of the following network levels (equipment + transmission
capacity + manpower) are paid for through the NREN budget (and not by some other body):
(please mark n/a if this level does not exist in your network)
Level
Percentage paid through the NREN budget
External connections
NREN backbone
Access network
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Metropolitan or regional networks
Campus LAN
4.15
Remarks or further information regarding section four:
Section five: SERVICES
Detailed information sharing and collaboration is becoming more and more important for many NRENs. The
purpose of the questions in this section is to give interested NRENs a first idea of who is doing what. It can
be used by others as a starting point for a further exchange of information, for example within the
framework of the TERENA Task Forces or the Joint Research Activities in the GN2 project. Note that many
questions are the same as those of last year – in those cases, we only ask you to double-check that the
information we have is still correct.
5.1
Network Operations Centre (NOC)
5.1.1
[ ] It is provided by the NREN
[ ] It has been outsourced to another organisation
IF SO:
5.1.1.1 Full name of the organisation (in English):
5.1.1.2 Full name of the organisation in the national language(s) (please use
the Latin alphabet):
5.1.1.3 Abbreviation in English (if applicable):
5.1.1.4 Abbreviation in the national language(s):
5.1.2
Is it at the main NREN address (as listed in section six below)?
IF NO:
5.1.2.1 Visiting address:
5.1.2.2 City/postal code of visiting address:
5.1.2.3 Postal address (if different from above):
5.1.2.4 City/postal code of postal address:
5.1.2.5 Fax:
5.1.2.6 Phone:
5.1.2.7 General e-mail address:
5.1.2.8 Website:
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
5.1.3
Who is the main contact person?
What is his/her direct e-mail address?
5.1.4
Does your NOC serve all your customers?
[ ] YES
If NO: which categories of customers are NOT served by your NOC?
[ ] NO
5.2
5.2.1
Performance Monitoring and Management
5.2.2
Do you have a website that lists your monitoring tools (traffic map, etc.) ?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
If yes, please provide the URL:
5.2.3
Do you have traffic statistics on your website? [ ] YES
If yes, please provide the URL:
[ ] NO
5.2.4
Do you have a looking glass on your website? [ ] YES
If yes, please provide the URL:
[ ] NO
5.2.5
Do you have any other tools that are perhaps not publicly available but that could
nevertheless be useful for troubleshooting the network? (e.g. the iperf tools installed on
several workstations on the network, such as: http://e2epi.internet2.edu/pipes/pmp/pmpswitch.htm.)
Do you have a Performance Enhancement & Response Team (PERT)?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
If yes, please provide the contact e-mail address:
Please also provide the URL, if applicable:
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5.3
5.3.1
Authorisation and Authentication infrastructure
5.3.2
Who is the main contact person?
What is his/her direct e-mail address?
5.3.3
Do you have a website or web pages with information about your AA infrastructure ?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
If yes, please provide the URL:
5.3.4
Do you run an AA federation?
[ ] YES
IF YES, is it… [ ] Shibboleth-based
[ ] Shibboleth-compliant
[ ] Neither
Does your federation have a policy? [ ] YES
If YES, please provide the URL:
How many institutions belong to this federation?
[ ] It is provided by the NREN
[ ] It has been outsourced to another organisation
IF SO:
5.3.1.1 Full name of the organisation (in English):
5.3.1.2 Full name of the organisation in the national language(s) (please use
the Latin alphabet):
5.3.1.3 Abbreviation in English (if applicable):
5.3.1.4 Abbreviation in the national language(s):
[ ] NO
[ ] NO
5.3.5
Do you belong to another federation and if so, which?
[ ] edugain
[ ] eduroam
[ ] others, please specify:
5.3.6
Do you use a schema?
IF YES, what kind is it?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
5.3.7
Do you operate a Certification Authority?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
5.4
5.4.1
Security Incident Response
5.4.2
[ ] The NREN has a CSIRT that is accredited with the Trusted Introducer
[ ] The CSIRT is currently an accreditation candidate with the Trusted Introducer
[ ] Our NREN does not have a CSIRT or it is not accredited
5.4.3
Do you have a website or web pages with information about your work in the area of
Security Incident Response?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
If yes, please provide the URL:
5.5
Does your NREN participate in other
[ ] It is provided by the NREN
[ ] It has been outsourced to another organisation
Internet-related activities?
Type of activity
RIPE
CENTR
ISOC
IETF
ccTLD registry
Neutral Internet Exchange
Other:
5.6
Type of participation
Bandwidth on Demand (lightpaths or point-to-point dedicated bandwidth services at layer 2
or below)
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5.6.1
What layer 2 protocols do you allow users to transport?
[ ] Ethernet
[ ] SDH
[ ] ATM
[ ] Others:
5.6.2
Do you currently offer or are you planning to introduce a Bandwidth on Demand service?
[ ] YES, we currently offer such a service
[ ] NO, but we are planning to introduce it within the next year or two
[ ] UNSURE - we want to find out first if there is user demand for it
[ ] NO
5.6.3
If YES, how do you provide Bandwidth on Demand services?
[ ] Through manual provisioning processes carried out by the NOC
[ ] Via a provisioning tool (please specify):
[ ] In another way (please specify):
5.6.4
How do you handle bandwidth reservations (if any) in your network?
[ ] Reject requests if they exceed available reservable bandwidth
[ ] Reject requests until we can provision more bandwidth
[ ] Accept requests anyway, rely on statistical multiplexing/sufficient overprovisioning
5.6.5
If you have an on-line monitoring tool for the Bandwidth on Demand Service or other on-line
information, please provide the URL:
5.6.6
Can you give any indication of the current uptake of your BoD services?
5.6.7
Who is the main contact person?
What is his/her direct e-mail address?
5.7
5.7.1
Grid services
5.7.2
Are Grid Services Provided by
[ ] The NREN
[ ] Institutions with the support of the NREN
[ ] Institutions alone
[ ] Discipline based distributed groups or Virtual Organisations
[ ] Other
5.7.3
What is the geographical extent of Grid Services?
[ ] Connected to international Grids
[ ] National
[ ] Regional within the country
5.7.4
Does your NREN actively participate in any EC funded Grid activities?
[ ] YES – which: [ ] the EGEE/EGEE2 project
[ ] other, please specify:
5.7.5
Do you have a website or web pages with information about your Grid services?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
If yes, please provide the URL:
5.7.6
If Grid Services are currently running or planned, what disciplines are running Grid enabled
applications?
Are grid services currently running over your network?
[ ] YES - please proceed to question 5.7.2
[ ] NO
Is your NREN planning to introduce or facilitate grid services within the next year or two?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
High Energy Physics
Other Physics
Computational Chemistry
[ ] NOW RUNNING
[ ] NOW RUNNING
[ ] NOW RUNNING
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[ ] PLANNED [ ] DON’T KNOW
[ ] PLANNED [ ] DON’T KNOW
[ ] PLANNED [ ] DON’T KNOW
Other Chemistry
Biomedical
Astroscience
Earth Science
Climatology
Other – please state:
[
[
[
[
[
] NOW RUNNING
] NOW RUNNING
] NOW RUNNING
] NOW RUNNING
] NOW RUNNING
[
[
[
[
[
] PLANNED
] PLANNED
] PLANNED
] PLANNED
] PLANNED
[
[
[
[
[
] DON’T KNOW
] DON’T KNOW
] DON’T KNOW
] DON’T KNOW
] DON’T KNOW
5.8
IP Telephony
5.8.1
Do you run IP telephony in your organization (in general, not only in the NREN offices?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
If YES, on which protocols is the service based?
[ ] SIP
[ ] H.323
[ ] Other:
5.8.2
Do you send IP traffic to your Telco(s) using IP instead of PSTN/ISDN?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO [ ] BOTH types of traffic
5.8.3
If available, we would like to get the URL to where you describe your IP Telephony
deployment:
5.8.4
Approximately how many people do you currently connect to your IP Telephony
deployment?
5.9
Video conferencing
5.9.1
Do you offer video conferencing?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
5.9.2
If YES, we would like you to describe the type of service:
5.9.3
Can you describe the general usage policy?
5.9.4
Is GDS supported?
[ ]YES
[ ]NO
If Yes, what prefix is used
5.9.5
If available, we would like to get the URL of the official site for video conferencing services:
5.9.6
Who is the main contact person for videoconferencing services?
5.10
User support
5.10.1 Does your NREN facilitate or support the work of specific groups of users?
[ ]YES [ ]NO
If YES, please list the categories of users that you provide support for:
Category
Currently providing support,
Planning to introduce, if so,
please briefly describe the type
when; please briefly describe
of support:
the type of support:
High Energy physics
Chemistry
Biomedical
Astroscience
Arts
Humanities
Others - please list:
5.10.2
Who is the main contact person for user support?
What is his/her direct e-mail address?
5.11
Public Relations and communications
5.11.1 Do you have at least one part-time person working on public relations and communications
for your NREN?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
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If so, please give us the number of persons working in this area for your NREN, in FTE:
5.11.2 Does the NREN have a dedicated budget for P.R. and communication? [ ] YES
[ ] NO
5.11.3 Who can TERENA use as contact person for PR and communications matters?
What is his/her direct e-mail address?
5.12
TERENA Task Force participation
TERENA supports joint European work to develop and test new networking technologies and applications.
TERENA brings together technical specialists in Task Forces and innovative projects. In many cases, these
Task Forces work together closely with relevant activities in the GN2 project. We would like to know how
you see your current participation in the TERENA task forces; any remarks or suggestions about these are
welcome as well.
Task Force
TF-CSIRT (security)
TF-EMC2 (middleware)
TF-LCPM (portfolio management)
TF-Mobility
TF-NGN (advanced networking)
TF-PR (public relations)
TF-VVC (voice/video)
Currently participating
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Would like to participate
What are your interest areas in research/development and future service
deployment?
5.13
Current
Essential
future
Potential future
development
Infrastructure
SDH
Giga Ethernet
Wavelength Testbed access
Wavelength Service Deployment
Wireless LAN
802.1x authentication
Mobile IP
eduroam
Diffserv/QoS
Multi-domain PIP
MPLS Service Deployment
Multicast
Light paths for high-end users
Access for roaming end-users
Access for students in
dormitories/on campus
Access for employees from their
homes
Access for students who live offcampus
Middleware
Directory Services
PKI services
Identity Management Systems
Grid support infrastructures
Application level
Teaching and learning applications
Video Conferencing
Streaming Media
Instant messaging
VoIP (internal)
VoIP (across the WAN)
Management
Traffic Monitoring
Charging / billing systems
Web Server content management
Web Server usage analysis
Information Content indexing
Disaster preparedness
Performance Enhancement and
Response Team (PERT)
Others (please specify:)
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Remarks or further information regarding section five:
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Will follow
other NRENs
No interest
Section six: BASIC INFORMATION
6.1
Full name of the organisation (in English):
6.2
Full name of the organisation in the national language(s) (please use the Latin alphabet):
6.3
6.4
Abbreviation in English (if applicable):
Abbreviation in the national language(s):
6.5
Visiting address:
6.6
City/postal code of visiting address:
6.7
Postal address (if different from above):
6.8
City/postal code of postal address:
6.9
Country:
6.10
6.11
6.12
6.13
6.14
Fax:
Phone:
General e-mail address:
Website:
Convention used for individual e-mail addresses:
(please specify/explain, eg. [firstname].[lastname]@[NRENname].[ccTLD] …)
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6.16
6.17
Year the first research network operations started:
Year in which research networking was started as a dedicated organisational unit:
Year in which the NREN was founded in its current form: 3
6.18
If you have a short description of the history of your organisation on your website, please
provide a URL to it:
6.19
Form of organisation:
[ ] Separate legal entity in its own right
[ ] Not a legal entity of its own, but part of a larger organisation.
If so, please give the name of the parent organisation (in English):
[ ] Not a separate legal entity and also not part of a larger organisation
6.20
What is the formal relationship between your organisation and your government?
[ ] We are a government agency or part of a ministry
[ ] The Government appoints at least half of the members of our Governing body
[ ] 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. If so, please explain:
6.21
Please briefly describe the governing structure of your NREN (in terms of members,
governing body, decision making process, etc.):
6.22
If you have a description of your governing structure on your website, please give the URL:
6.23
Please give the title(s), first name(s), last name(s) and job title(s) of your Chief Executive
Officer(s):
6.24
Please give the title(s), first name(s), last name(s) and job title(s) of the Head of your
Technical Staff:
6.25
What is(are) his/her direct e-mail address(es)?
3
Please compare the answers given here with the answers of some of the other NRENs you are familiar
with.
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6.26
We would appreciate it if you would be able to give us a short description of major changes
that occurred in your network during the past year or that you foresee for the coming year
(structural changes, major technology upgrades, changes in the user base, etc.)
6.27
We would be interested in receiving your feedback, both regarding the Compendium 2005
and this questionnaire. Both general comments and specific comments (e.g. about questions
that you found difficult to understand or to answer or of limited value) would be appreciated.
Form completed by:
Date of completion:
Thank you for your assistance!
Please return before the 15 th of April 2006 to: [email protected]
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