Transcript Overview of work in TERENA

(GN2) NA4 Support for Research
and Education Networking in Less
Advanced Countries
Valentino Cavalli
TNC2005, 6-9 June 2005
www.terena.nl
TNC2005, Poznan, 6-9 June 2005
Valentino Cavalli <[email protected]>
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Overview
• Background TERENA activities in support of
less advanced countries
• GN2 NA4 Support activity
• Focus countries and priority setting
• R&E Networking in the first countries under
consideration in 2005
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TERENA activities in
recent years
• TERENA Members Development Programme
• Gain better understanding about the status of
R&E networking in the country, inhibitors and
opportunities
• Help understanding the role of TERENA and
promoting participation in TERENA activities
• Visit the country, talk to users and stakeholders
of the NREN and provide recommendations:
Lithuania, Latvia, FYR of Macedonia
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GN2 Support for less
advanced countries
• Target countries
– NRENs participating in the GN2 project
– countries that have obtained connectivity to GÉANT through
the SEEREN and EUMEDCONNECT projects
• More advanced participants in the GN2 project will assist
NRENs, and possibly regional and local research and
education networks, in the less-advanced countries. This
will address in particular transfer of knowledge in
technical, managerial and policy areas
• Budget € 600,000 over four years Sep 2004 – Sep 2008
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Type of support
actions
• technical workshops on specific operational aspects of
advanced network technologies
• managerial workshops, addressing the management of
research and education networks and their relations with
government, funding bodies, connected institutions, endusers and telecommunications operators
• consultancy to research and education networking
organisations in less-advanced countries, including for
example the development of business plans
• secondment of staff members from research and
education networking organisations in less-advanced
regions with more advanced NRENs and universities.
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Method of work
• Short list of target countries
• Annual revision of the priority
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Bandwidth of national network
External connectivity
Human resources
Organisation & management
Funding
Opportunity
• Focus Countries: Needs Assessment
• Role of Advisory Panel: assist and assess the work done
• Public GN2 NA4 report
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Initial set of focus
countries in 2005
• Albania
– Visit on 26-27 May 2005
– Recommendations (confidential) issued by Mid June
2005
– Users workshop by mid November 2005
• Morocco
– Visit on 20-22 June 2005
– Follow up during summer and fall 2005
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Albania: NREN
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No progress about Academic Network of Albania initiated by
joint decision of Ministry of Education and Science and
Academy of Sciences
– Management Board
– Technical Board
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There is no NREN in Albania
INIMA: Institute of Informatics and Applied Mathematics of the
Academy of Sciences
– DNS service for secondary level domains of ccTld .al – SMTP and
HTTP service for the ASA
– institution LAN
– 1 Mbit/s leased line to the Internet
– International connectivity 2Mbit/s from SEEREN discontinued
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Albania: R&E
institutions and
networks
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11 Universities in Albania
– 6 located in Tirana (half of country students), including:
• University of Tirana – 7 faculties > 15,000 students
• Polytechnic University – 4 faculties > 3,000 students
– Other universities in Elbasani, Shkodra, Gjirokastra, Korca, Vlora
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Academy of Sciences: 14 institutes, incl. INIMA
About 40 R&D departments at ministry level
No national academic network interconnecting universities or
institutes, a few institutes in Tirana have computer labs and
(partial) Ethernet-based LAN + connection to the Internet via
ISPs
– Faculty of Electric Engineering, Natural Sciences, Economy
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No dedicated resources for provision of network services
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Albania: ICT and
Telecommunications
• National strategy for ICT, which includes creation of
NREN, but low priority in practice
• Result of 3 June election may change the situation
• ALBTELECOM incumbent operator – fixed telephony –
being privatised. Monopoly officially ended in 2004.
Partially liberalised marked for mobile telephony. Internet
market liberalised – confusion about data transmission
• Opportunity for acquiring optical fibre by the academic
community?
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ALBTELECOM National
Network
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97 km 34 Mb/s
246 km 155 Mb/s
539 km land lines
594 km submarine
(intern.) lines 622
Mb/s
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ALBTELECOM
International Network
2 projects:
• Trans Balkan Line
(TBL) East-West
• ADRIA 1 North-South
• Both with STM-4
(622Mb/s) FO
• Montenegro: FO
Scutari-Murriqan
(border)
• Kosovo: MW TiranaCvilen
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Albania:
conclusions
• Make sure that new government gives higher
priority to information society and to research
and education networking
• Lobbying in favour of creating the NREN or
agreeing on an institution representing the
whole R&E community
• Favour the exploitation of international
initiatives in promoting the creation of a national
network backbone
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