Case study: CARNet

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Case study CARNet

• Predrag Vidas
• Croatian Academic and Research Network CARNet
• E-mail predrag.vidas_at_CARNet.hr

3rd CEENet Network Technology Workshop, Zagreb,
Croatia, August 1997.
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Agenda

• history of CARNet
• what is CARNet?
• organizational structure
• projects

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History (I)

• October 3, 1991. - Ministry of Science and
  Technology started project
• I phase
• arrival of first equipment in 1992.
• most important institutions connected
• Internet connection established on November 18,
  1992.

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History (II)

• II phase
• all institutions from academic and research
  community connected
• more than 100 institutions
• speeds gt 33.6 kbps
• introduction of new services

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History (III)

• III phase
• broadband backbone
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology (ATM)
• first ATM connection in 1995.
• now all Universities connected on ATM BB BB

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History (IV)

• CARNet - Governmental Agency (1995.)
• financed from budget of the Republic of Croatia
  since 1996.
• Ministry of Science Technology - supervise
  CARNet

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What is CARNet?

• ISP for academic and research community in
  Croatia
• Croatian testbed for new information technologies
• promoter of new information technologies

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CARNet Users

• academic and research community
• 100 faculties, institutes, etc
• primary and secondary schools
• libraries, museums...
• institutions with project with CARNet
• partners of CARNet
• government institutions
• others

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CARNet Organizational Structure

• The Board of Governors
• Chief Executive Officer
• Departments
• Infrastructure
• Information Services
• Programs and Projects
• Research and Development
• Administration and Financial Services
• The Board of Users

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Infrastructure

• network infrastructure
• computer infrastructure
• development
• maintenance

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Network Infrastructure I

• ATM backbone
• 4 University centers connected 155 Mbps ATM
• 4 other towns to connect this year
• Zagreb
• 7 locations connected
• 3 locations connected with 622 Mbps,
  others155Mbps
• 2 more locations to connect in 1997.

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Network Infrastructure II

• International connectivity
• USA 2 Mbps (MCI)
• Europe 128kbps (EBONE)
• Europe 256kbps in September 1997.
• Dial In Service
• 92 dial in lines in 6 towns
• end of 1997. - 400 dial in lines in 8 towns

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Network Topology
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Computer Infrastructure I

• minimal configuration
• 33.6 kbps modem UNIX workstation CARNet node
• next step
• UNIX workstation PC classroom router modem
  (gt33.6kbps)
• LAN Internet on desktop
• advance users
• ATM

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Computer Infrastructure II

• UNIX workstations
• different platforms
• SUN, Digital - CARNet nodes in institutions
• maintenance
• system engineer in institution or CARNet system
  engineer
• ftp.carnet.hr - Internet public domain s/w
  updates
• help desk for system engineers - end of 1997.

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Information Services I

• central information services
• www, gopher, ftp, news, listproc, irc
• directory services whois, netfind, home pages
  directory
• User Support
• Users Service - contacts with institutions
• support for building users information services

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Information Services II

• End User Support
• courses for end users (since 1992. more than 500
  courses with more than 10.000 attendees)
• helpdesk (fax, e-mail, tel)
• CARNet Utilities - public domain s/w
• CARNet User Guide
• CARNet Documentation Archive CDA

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Information Services III

• Public host
• not commercial
• academic and research institutions without CARNet
  node
• schools
• chance for every citizen of Croatia to try
  Internet
• Public web (pubwww.srce.hr)

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The Network Courses Schema
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Research and Development

• research
• to be in touch with new technologies
• development
• practical solutions and implementations for
  CARNet
• priorities
• BB networks, access technologies, virtual
  reality, wireless LANs, mobile communications,
  security, etc.

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Programs and Projects

• presentations (fairs, conferences, workshops,
  governmental bodies, festivals, etc.)
• pilot projects in different areas of society
• marketing
• press relations

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The Board of Users

• advisory board
• CARNet coordinators from institutions
• CARNet coordinator - link between CARNet and
  institution
• what users want and suggest?

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CARNet Projects I

• CARNet organize
• institutions, individuals, groups execute
• all departments are project oriented
• everybody should do something for the community

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CARNet Projects II

• infrastructure projects
• research projects
• pilot projects

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Infrastructure Projects

• central databases (Current Contents, Medline,
  Ovid biomedical core)
• reference centers (Mathematica, NAG)
• Croatian Chemical Server
• standards in radio telecommunications
• www.hr
• public hosts
• news server
• ftp server
• etc

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Research Projects

• wireless LAN reference center
• PGP reference center
• VRML reference center
• high speed LANs reference center
• data compression reference center
• electronical commerce reference center
• network equipment test lab
• etc

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Pilot Projects

• automatic telescope
• brief history of the Croatian state
• remote follow-up of cardiac pacemakers
• Croatian works of art on the Internet
• Croatian Networked Radio News CroNeRaN
• information services for government and president
• Web-GIS
• etc

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Conclusion

• whole academic and research community build
  CARNet
• CARNet organize
• CARNets orientation openness for new
  technologies and new ways for use them

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Questions

• May I get something to drink?
• Thank you))))