Nasser ElAttar

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Supreme Council of UniversitiesEgyptian
Universities Network
Africa Asia Forum on Network Research and
Engineering Egypt workshop May 14, 2009
Nasser El-Attar EUN, SCU
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• EUN founded in 1987 as a not for profit
  organization it is the ICT unit for Supreme
  Council of Universities.
• EUN connects all Egyptian universities and some
  other scientific and educational organizations
  and connects these institutions with the
  Internet, Internet2 etc.,.
• EUN is funded primarily by the universities
  subscriptions.
• EUN is the Egyptian NREN for Egyptian
  Universities and Scientific Research community.
• EUN is ccTLD for .eg domain.

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• EUN International Bandwidth has reached 2155
  Mbps STM1 connection with the Internet.
• EUN Bandwidth with Internet2 is 34 Mbps
• EUN Bandwidth with EUMEDConnect is 34 Mbps
• Each University focal point is connected to EUN
  with E3 34 Mbps connection.
• The Egyptian Universities is logically connected
  through MPLS VPN cloud.

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• EUN is the Egyptian NREN for Egyptian
  Universities and Scientific Research community.
• EUN has been established a state-of-the-art
  infrastructure including electrical power
  facilities, Mail service, Web servers, security
  suite, etc,.
• EUN is hosting all Higher Education Enhancement
  Projects Servers
• Egyptian Universities Libraries Consortia
  www.eulc.edu.eg
• National eLearning Center www.nelc.edu.eg
• Management and Information Systems
  www.ictp.org.eg
• ICT Training www.ictp.org.eg

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• EUN has implemented Grid nodes in Egyptian
  Universities and promote Grid Computing in Egypt
  through an Egyptian Grid Initiative.
• EUN has recently established a Video Conferencing
  and Streaming network for all universities.
• And now Collaborating with AAF through high
  speed IPv6 connection.
• EUN will establish a Center of Excellence for
  developing human resources.
• EUN will establish a Disaster Recovery Center.

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EUN Connectivity Logical Diagram
GEANT2
Abilene
34 Mbps
Internet2 POP
EUN Managed Router NY
EUN
Canarie
34 Mbps
APAN
2 155Mbps STM1
Commercial Internet
Commercial Internet
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EUN
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Geant2 At the heart of Global Research Networking
EUN
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QA
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