TERENA Compendium 2005: Summary of key findings

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TERENA Compendium 2005Summary of key findings

• Bert van Pinxteren
• TERENA
• http//www.terena.nl/compendium

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New in 2005 aggregations

• EU-15 EFTA
• Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,
  Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,
  Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain,
  Sweden, Switzerland, UK
• New EU member states
• Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,
  Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia,
  Slovenia
• Non-EU/EFTA GN2 partners
• Croatia, Bulgaria, Israel, Russia, Romania,
  Turkey

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Summary of key findings

• Legal form
• Users/clients
• Network
• Traffic
• Services
• Funding
• Bonus material!

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Legal form (1)

• In the EU-15/EFTA countries, the most common (but
  not the only) model is the NREN which is a
  separate legal entity, controlled by the research
  and education community
• In other areas, there is greater diversity

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Legal form (2)

• Conclusion
• NREN development requires the commitment of all
  major stakeholders, such as funders and users. A
  governing model that allows the participation of
  these stakeholders would seem to be the most
  appropriate such a situation can be achieved in
  a number of different ways.

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Users/clients (1)

• Gb connections of Universities

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Users/clients (2)

• Gigabit Ethernet is being introduced by many
  hitherto less developed NRENs (such as AMREJ,
  MARNET and RENAM) and thus seems to make it
  possible, for the first time, to quickly address
  an important aspect of () the digital divide
  in Europe ().

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Network (1)

• Dark fibre on NREN backbones

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Network (2)

• There are indications that more and more NRENs
  are switching over to dark fibre as the
  technology of the future, with the EU NRENs being
  in the lead
• The trend seems to be that in the more advanced
  countries, the core capacity will evolve to 10
  Gb/s or multiples of that.

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Traffic (1)

• Growth rates in the new EU member states and in
  non-EU/EFTA countries are clearly higher than
  those in the old EU member states
• It seems that in the EU, traffic growth is
  slowing down

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Traffic (2)

• It seems that traffic is now determined more by
  (changes in) user demand, rather than by network
  capacity limitations.
• It is unclear if this trend towards slower growth
  will persist
• The longer-established NRENs from the EU and EFTA
  countries are mostly net exporters of data, while
  the other NRENs are net importers.

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Traffic (3) congestion index
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Services

• Increased need for AAI
• Grid services are currently running in 15 out of
  the 27 EU/EFTA NRENs in the survey and in 5 out
  of the 16 NRENs from other countries in the
  survey
• More NRENs planning to introduce such a service
• NREN support is needed for running the service in
  the great majority of cases

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Funding

• Comparisons are difficult (almost impossible)
• The trend is that budgets stay relatively stable
  and that NRENs are able to deliver more bandwidth
  and more services for roughly the same amount of
  money.
• EU projects seem to act as a catalyst for
  increased national NREN budgets in some countries

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Bonus material

• https//www.terena.nl/compendium/2005/login.php

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Bonus material

• Compendium 2005 - spreadsheets
•    home  compendium  2005  spreadsheetsThes
  e spreadsheets are posted here as an experimental
  service only for the NRENs that have participated
  in the survey. They can be used for example for
  preparing national reports that contain data from
  a subset of NRENs that is relevant for your
  national situation. Recognising TERENA as the
  source of the data will be appreciated. Note that
  most of the data have been collected in March and
  April of 2005. If you find new, nice ways of
  presenting the data, please feel free to share
  your insights with us.It may take some studying
  to figure out what is what in the spreadsheets -
  but if you have trouble with them, you can always
  ask for clarification. All spreadsheets have a
  column with the name of the NREN and the country.
  Most of them also have some way of sorting the
  countries geographically, as in the Compendium.
  E.g. and 'a' might be used for EU countries, a
  'b' for other countries. Note that these
  distinctions have not been used consistently
  throughout the spreadsheets.
• Basic information
• Legal form of NRENs, partner organisations -
  6.19_6.20_organisation_info.xls
• Users / clients
• Connection policies, percentages of institutions
  in different categories served by the NREN -
  Ch._2.8_inst_connect_marketshare_graphs.xls
• Uptake of IPv6 - ipv6_unis_research_1.5_1.7.xls
• Numbers of connected institutions and bandwidth -
  1.5_inst_conn_speeds.xls
• Network
• Core capacity - Ch.3.2_Core Capacity00-07l.xls
• Core network size - Ch.3.4_Core Network Size
  multiyear.xls
• External links - Ch.3.5_external_links.xls
• Dark fibre - Ch.3.7_darkfibre.xls
• Traffic
• External traffic ('T3' and 'T4')-
  Ch.4.2_traffic_t3_t4_multiyear.xls
• Traffic load - Ch.4_links_load_for_final.xls
• Congestion - 3.5_congestion.xls
• Services - 5.3_5.4_5.6_5.7_services.xls
• Tasks, Staffing, Funding - 4_funding_staffing.xls
  

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Wise Words

• Check and double-check your data!