Transcript ARNES Services

Academic and Research Network of
Slovenia
Avgust Jauk
NATO ANW, Ljubljana, Sep. 2001
Content
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Introduction
ARNES Services
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Connectivity
Network Services
User Support
User community
International Cooperation
Introduction
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Established by the government of Slovenia in 1992
Public, non-profit institution
Board of Directors
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Ministry of Education, Science and Sport
Ministry of Information Society
Representative of employees
Annual Operating Plan, Annual Report
Technical board: technology, services, development
Funded primarily by ministries
ARNES Services
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Connectivity
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Domestic connectivity
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PoPs in 18 major towns
Backbone: lines from 512 kbit/s to 155 Mbit/s
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274 organizations connected via leased line
– Access capacity from 64 Kbit/s to 155 Mbit/s
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1520 dial-up ports (POTS and ISDN)
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50,000 individuals from 1,200 institutions
International connectivity
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155 Mbit/s line to the pan-European backbone TEN-155
ARNES Services
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SIX: Slovenian Internet Exchange
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established to avoid exchanging local traffic via
international lines
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currently 8 members (ISPs with their own international lines)
Incoming International Traffic in
GBytes
6000
5000
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2000
1000
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5
7
1995
9
11
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3
5
7
1996
9
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3
5
7
1997
9
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3
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1998
7
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1999
7
9
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2000
Ways to connect to ARNES
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Permanent connection
- leased line
- frame relay
Dial-up connection
- analogue telephone network
- ISDN
New options
- wireless connections
- private optical fibres
- xDSL, cable modems
ARNES Services
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Network services
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Servers for E-mail, WWW, FTP, News, MBONE,
IRC, etc
Management of .SI
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Domain registration
Primary DNS server
SI-CERT: Slovenian Computer Emergency
Response Team
Development of new services
ARNES Services
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User support
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Help desk
Manuals, CDs
Consultancy on connectivity, services
Presentations on seminars organized by users
Presentations on conferences, exhibitions
Presentations on workshops
User Community
Type of organization
Number of
Percentage of
Percentage of traffic
perm.connections dial-up accounts
Institutes
45
6%
17 %
Development in industry
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2%
4%
Universities
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6%
40 %
Secondary schools
65
41 %
18 %
Primary schools
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32 %
9%
Other education
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1%
3%
Libraries, museums
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3%
5%
Other
24
9%
4%
Total
274
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100 %
Costs and Funding
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Costs
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60 % international connectivity
20 % domestic connectivity
11 % purchasing of equipment
5 % personnel costs
4 % all other costs
Funding
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95 % Ministry of Eductation, Science and Sport
5 % Development departments in industry
International Cooperation
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Full national member of TERENA
(Trans-European Research and Educational
Networking Association)
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Shareholder of DANTE
(Delivery of Advanced Networking
Technology to Europe)
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Non-profit company which manages pan-European
education and research backbone TEN-155
International Cooperation
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Member of CEENet
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Member of RIPE NCC
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(Central and Eastern European Networking
Association)
Organizes a series of educational workshops
(Resseaux IP Europeans)
Administrative and technical coordination to allow
the operation of European IP networks
Participate in many European projects in the
field of network technologies and services
Conclusion
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ARNES activities:
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Development, operation and management of
networking infrastructure for education and
research in Slovenia
It has to closely follow developments in the
area of networking technologies and services
International collaboration is of utmost
importance
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Exchange of ideas
Joint development efforts