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SURVEY: TERENA COMPENDIUM OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORKING, 2003
TSec(03)011
DEADLINE FOR COMPLETION: 7 March 2003!
Note: information we already have about your NREN has been entered into the relevant sections below.
Please double-check this information and send us any corrections or additions that may be necessary.
Section one: BASIC INFORMATION
1.1 Full name of the organisation (in English):
1.2 Full name of the organisation in the national language(s) (please use the Latin alphabet):
1.3 Abbreviation in English (if applicable):
1.4 Abbreviation in the national language(s):
1.5 Visiting address:
1.6 City/postal code:
1.7 Postal address (if different):
1.8 City/postal code:
1.9 Country:
1.10 Year the first research network operations started:
1.11 Year in which research networking was started as a dedicated organisational unit:
1.12 Year in which the NREN was founded in its current form:
1.13 If you have a short description of the history of your organisation on your website, please
provide a URL to it:
1.14 Fax:
1.15 Phone:
1.16 General e-mail address:
1.17 Website:
1.18 Convention used for individual e-mail addresses:
(please specify/explain, eg. [firstname].[lastname]@[NRENname].[cTLD] …)
1.19 Remarks about section one:
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Section two: ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
2.1 Form of organisation:
2.1.1 [ ] Not a legal entity of its own.
If so, please give the name of the parent organisation (in English):
2.1.2 [ ] Separate legal entity in its own right
2.2 How would you characterize the relationship between your organisation and your
government?
2.2.1 [ ] Direct: we are a government agency or part of a ministry.
2.2.2 [ ] Indirect: we are controlled by the research and education community which in itself is
(largely) government-funded.
2.2.3 [ ] Both, in some ways.
If so, please explain:
2.2.4 [ ] Other, please explain:
2.3 Please briefly describe the governing structure of your NREN (in terms of members,
governing body, decision making structure, etc.):
2.4 If you have a description of your governing structure on your website, please give the URL:
2.5 For NRENs in the EU, the EEA or accession states only: Would you consider your
organisation a public electronic communications network or service in the sense of the EU
Authorisation Directive (2002/20/EC)?
[ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] We don’t know yet
2.6 Please give the title(s), first name(s), last name(s) and job title(s) of your Chief Executive
Officer(s):
2.7 Please give the title(s), first name(s), last name(s) and job title(s) of the Head of your
Technical Staff:
2.8 What is(are) his/her direct e-mail address(es)?
2.9 Who could TERENA use as contact person for information and PR-matters? (Please give
first name, last name, job title);
2.10 What is his/her direct e-mail address?
2.11 Remarks regarding section two:
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Section three: STAFFING
Some NRENs provide services only to the Research and Education communities in their country. Others
provide other services as well, for example because they administer the country tld or because they
connect individuals, companies or institutions that are clearly outside of the Research and Education
community. For the sake of comparability, we would like to ask you to provide information only about the
activities for the Research and Education community in your country in questions 3.2 through to 3.6, and
also in questions 4.3 through to 4.9. For short, we have called these ‘NREN activities’.
3.1 What is the total number of paid staff directly employed by your organisation (not
outsourced)?
3.2 What is the number of staff engaged in NREN activities?
3.3 Some of the staff could be working part-time. We would like to know the number of staff as
given in 3.2 above, but in full-time equivalents (FTEs):
3.4 On average, how many people (in FTE) are working for the organization as subcontractors
or on outsourced basis (for NREN activities)?
3.5 Please provide a breakdown of the staff engaged in NREN activities (all in FTEs):
Breakdown of staff working on Breakdown of staff working on
NREN activities directly NREN activities but employed by
employed by the organisation: others (outsourced):
3.5.1 Total staff (take number from 3.3:) (take number from 3.4:)
3.5.2 Technical staff
3.5.3 Administrative and
financial staff
3.5.4 User support and
training staff
3.5.5 Others not included
elsewhere
3.5.6 Total (should be the
same as 3.5.1 above)
3.6 Please estimate the percentage of your staff effort (3.3 plus 3.4) that goes into Research &
Development activities:
Of staff working on NREN Of staff working on NREN business but
business directly employed employed by others (outsourced)
by the organisation
Percentage of staff effort
3.7 Remarks regarding section three:
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In sections 4,5 and 6, we propose a distinction between ‘internal’ and ‘external’ networking and network
traffic. Please take a look at the figure below, which attempts to illustrate the distinctions in terminology.
NREN CORE NETWORK
Customer
Connections
T1 T3 ALL
Cloud EXTERNAL
NETWORKS
CLOUD
T2 T4
T1 – all outbound traffic from customer sites
T2 – all inbound traffic to customer sites
T3 – all outbound traffic to external network clouds
T4 – all inbound traffic to the NREN backbone
Please consider NREN user services such as webservers, mirrors etc. to be part of the traffic from/to
customer sites.
External traffic = all traffic to GÉANT, the Commodity Internet, etc. (made up of T3 and T4 above)
Section four: FINANCES, BUDGET
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 2002 (or 2002/2003)? (In millions of euro at the
current exchange rate)
4.3 How much of this budget was dedicated directly to NREN activities (see explanation at the top
of section 3 above)? (In millions of euro at the current exchange rate)
4.4 What is your organisation’s total budget for 2003 (or 2003/2004)? (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 indication of the sources of your NREN-related income (for 2003 or
2003/2004)
Source Percentage of income
4.6.1 Users/clients
4.6.2 National Government/public bodies
4.6.3 The EU (if known, e.g. for GÉANT)
4.6.4 Other sources
4.7 How do you charge your clients?
4.7.1 [ ] We do not charge them directly
4.7.2 [ ] We charge a flat fee, based on bandwidth
4.7.3 [ ] We charge a traffic-based fee
4.7.4 [ ] We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee
4.7.5 [ ] Other:
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4.8 Please give us an indication of the main expenditure categories in your budget (for 2003 or
2003/2004).
Expenditure category Percentage
4.8.1 Salaries and general office costs
4.8.2a Equipment (switches, routers etc.) (see also 4.9)
4.8.2b Transmission capacity (IRUs, leased lines, etc.) (see
also 4.9)(please combine 2a and 2b if it not possible to make
this distinction)
4.8.3. Other
4.9 Please give a breakdown of the expenditure on equipment and transmission capacity (4.8.2
above):
Expenditure category Percentage (together 100%)
4.9.1 Equipment and transmission capacity for external connections
(see also 4.10)
4.9.2. Equipment and transmission capacity for other connections
(including the backbone)
4.10 Please indicate how much of the following network levels (equipment + transmission
capacity + manpower) are paid for specifically 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 specifically paid through NREN budget
4.10.1 External connections
4.10.2 NREN backbone
4.10.3 Access network
4.10.4 Metropolitan or regional networks
4.10.5 Campus LAN
4.11 How do you obtain your data communications capacity? (Mark all that apply)
Internally Externally
We have a contract with one provider We have a contract with one provider
We have contracts with several providers We have contracts with several providers
We own our own network /have IRUs We own our own network /have IRUs
Other: Other:
4.12 Remarks/comments regarding section four:
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Section five: USER BASE
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). Roughly speaking, ‘University’ level is equivalent to
ISCED levels 5 and 6; ‘higher/further education’ is equivalent to ISCED level 4; ‘secondary education’
corresponds to ISCED levels 2 and 3 and ‘primary education’ to ISCED level 1.
5.1 Please estimate the percentage of the institutions in each category in your country that are
connected to your NREN (your ‘market share’ in each category):
Type of institution Is this type of institution allowed % connected through your NREN
to connect to your NREN? (‘market share’):
Universities
Institutes of higher/further
education
Research institutes
Secondary schools
Primary schools
Libraries
Hospitals (other than
University hospitals)
Government departments
Others
5.2 Please indicate the total number of institutions connected to your NREN in each of the
following categories (if any) and indicate how many percent of the connected institutions
are connected in which manner:
% % % %
% %
Total connected connected connected connected
connected connected
number through at >2 Mb at >10 and at >100
at up to 2 at 1 GB or
connected ISDN or and ≤10 ≤ 100 and <
Mb/s above
lower Mb/s Mb/s 1000 Mb/s
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Universities
Institutes or
higher/further
education
Research
institutes
Secondary
schools
Primary
schools
Libraries
Hospitals
(other than
University
hospitals)
Government
departments
Others
5.3 By what factor do you expect that these capacities will increase in two years' time for the
different types of connections or institutions?
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If you connect University Faculties or Institutes directly, rather than Universities as such, please indicate both how
many Universities you connect and how many separate Faculties or Institutes.
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5.4 Please also tell us by what method the different types of institutions are connected to your
network:
% directly % connected via a % connected via or % connected in
connected regional or metropolitan behind another, another way:
to a POP on network managed by a connected institution
the NREN third party
Universities
Institutes of
higher/further
education
Research institutes
Secondary schools
Primary schools
Libraries
Hospitals (other than
University hospitals)
Government
departments
Others
5.5 Please give an estimate of the percentage of students in your country that can have Internet
access directly or indirectly through your NREN
Type of student % that can have Internet access through your
organisation
5.5.1 students in University education:
5.5.2 students in higher/further education:
5.5.3 students in secondary education:
5.5.4 pupils in primary education:
5.6 Please give us your estimate of where there is congestion (if any) in your network and of the
percentage of client institutions that are affected by congestion at this level:
Campus LAN Metropolitan Access NREN External
or regional network backbone connections
network
% of users
experiencing
no or very
little
congestion
% of users
experiencing
some or
moderate
congestion
% of users
experiencing
serious
congestion
Total (should
be 100%)
5.7 Remarks regarding section five:
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Section six: CAPACITY, TRAFFIC AND PLANS
6.1 What is the current typical core usable backbone capacity on your network (in Mbit/s)?
6.2 By what factor do you expect this to increase in two years' time?
6.3 Please give us the total amount of traffic (in Terabytes) in 2002 of each of the four types of
traffic defined in the picture between sections 3 and 4 above:
6.3.1 T1 (traffic from customer sites):
6.3.2 T2 (traffic to customer sites):
6.3.3 T3 (outbound external traffic):
6.3.4 T4 (inbound external traffic):
6.4 Approximately what percentage of the T3 and T4 traffic as given above was to/from the
Commodity Internet?
6.5 What was the volume of traffic that went through your network in January 2003 (in
Terabytes)?
6.5.1 T1: 6.5.2 T2: 6.5.3 T3: 6.5.4 T4:
6.6 Can you give the current usable backbone capacity on your network in Mbit/s x km (capacity
multiplied by length of the backbone network)?
6.7 Please provide a map of the topology of your network (or a URL to such a map):
6.8 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):
6.9 Please give us a list of the operational external connections you had in January 2003:
To which network (such as GÉANT, Internet 2, UUnet, exchange point): Usable capacity in Mbit/s:
6.10 What external connections do you expect to add or upgrade during 2003?
To which network: Usable capacity in Mbit/s:
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6.11 What operational external connections do you expect to have in January 2005?
To which network: Usable capacity in Mbit/s:
6.12 Which technology do you use predominantly on your core network?
(Tick or give percentage:) Technology
ATM
ATM over SDH
SDH
Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet
DWDM
Packet over SONET
Other:
6.13 Regarding question 6.12: what are you planning to change in the next two years?
6.14 Do you run or are you otherwise involved with an Internet Exchange Point? If so, please
name each such Exchange Point and state your involvement with it:
6.15 Please provide a URL for the relevant Internet Exchange Point(s):
6.16 Remarks regarding section six:
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Section seven: SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
7.1 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:
7.2 Does your NREN provide end-to-end or peer-to-peer services? If so, which?
7.3 Please specify if and how you are involved in any of the following:
Type of involvement:
Cctld
Domain names
Looking glass service
IETF
RIPE working groups
7.4 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:
7.5 Is your NREN funding, participating in, or otherwise supporting any IPv6-related activities? If
so, please list these.
7.6.1 Does your NREN run a national or regional IPv6 testbed? If so, is it running native IPv6, IPv6
encapsulated over IPv4, or a combination of both of these?
7.6.1.1 Are you using dynamic routing?
7.6.1.2 What was the average IPv6 traffic flow in December 2002?
7.6.1.3 What percentage of your total traffic is currently IPv6 traffic?
7.6.1.4 Have you applied for a TLA to RIPE?
7.6.1.5 If so, how much have you allocated?
7.6.2 Is your NREN or any of your member institutions connected to an external IPv6 network or
exchange point (e.g. 6TAP, 6NET)? If so, please state which ones and if it is via native IPv6,
IPv6 encapsulated over IPv4, or a combination of both of these?
7.7 Does your NREN have any plans for supporting IPv6 in the coming years? If so, please state
when you expect support for IPv6 to be introduced.
7.7.1 As a pilot service:
7.7.2 As a production network service:
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7.8 What are your interest areas in research/development and future service deployment?
Current Essential Potential future Will follow No interest
future development other NRENs
Infrastructure
SDH
Giga Ethernet
Lambda Testbed access
Lambda Service Deployment
Wireless LAN
Diffserv/QoS
MPLS 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
VoIP
Management
Traffic Monitoring
Charging / billing systems
Web Server content management
Web Server usage analysis
Information Content indexing
Disaster preparedness
Performance Emergency Response
Teams
Others (please specify:)
7.9 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):
7.10 Remarks regarding section seven:
7.11 Any other remarks, suggestions or ideas:
Form completed by:
Date of completion:
Thank you for your assistance!
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Please return before the 7 of March 2003 to: pinxteren@terena.nl
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