NREN of NATO Silk Project

1. NREN of NATO Silk Project Current and Future Grigor Babayan, Armenia

2. NREN of NATO Silk Project What is NREN? • National Research and Education Network. • The network would allow researchers, educators and students around the country to communicate with each other and to access a broad range of research tools and information resources. NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

3. NREN of NATO Silk Project Missions: • to participate and to promote establishment of information and communication infrastructure based on usage of high-quality technologies, which will unite national research and educational organizations and institutions, non-commercial information resources, museums and libraries within one information network; • to promote the unification of educational, non-commercial and non-governmental resources by means of common infrastructure and to provide access to international global networks; • to provide the research and educational collaboration between national and international research and academic communities by means of services of united information system. NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

4. NREN of NATO Silk Project NREN Infrastructure NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

5. NREN of NATO Silk Project Services • Permanent Connectivity • Dial-up Connectivity • Web Site Hosting • Domain registration under National Domain Name NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

6. NREN of NATO Silk Project • Services • Permanent Connectivity • The permanent link will be built from the location of the organization to the nearest NREN's access point (AP) or data communication centre (DCC). • The costs of the connection from the institution's location to the nearest AP or DCC are covering by organization or within the framework of projects. NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

7. NREN of NATO Silk Project • Services • Dial-up Connectivity • Dial-up connectivity offers Internet connection through the telephone communication network. NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

8. NREN of NATO Silk Project • Services • Web Site Hosting • The ftp-account will be established. Construction and updating of the web-page will remain the responsibility of the organization itself. • If the contents of the web-page are not suitable for the educational and research network, NREN has the right to restrict access to the web-page. Access can be re-opened after the content of the web-page has been changed. NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

9. NREN of NATO Silk Project Financing • Membership fee from member organizations • Support from local donor organizations • Participation in the international and regional projects NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

10. NREN of NATO Silk Project Financing • Membership fee from member organizations • Acceptable User Policy (AUP) • Membership fee from member organizations • Universities • Research organizations • Libraries • Academic hospitals • Programs/projects of international organizations supporting the development of Information Society and the use of Information Technologies in research and education NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

11. NREN of NATO Silk Project Financing • Support from local donor organizations • United Nations Development Program (UNDP) • Open Society Institute (OSI) • Internet Access Training Program (IATP) NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

12. NREN of NATO Silk Project Financing • Participation in the international and regional projects • NATO Science Program • European Commission • World Bank NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

13. NREN of NATO Silk Project • NATO Project “Virtual Silk Highway” NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

14. NREN of NATO Silk Project • ARENA • AzRENA • GRENA • AKNET • KAZRENA • TARENA • TURENA • UzSciNet NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

15. NREN of NATO Silk Project • ARENA Regional Network NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

16. NREN of NATO Silk Project • AzRENA Regional Network NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

17. NREN of NATO Silk Project • GRENA Regional Network NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

18. NREN of NATO Silk Project • KazRENA Regional Network NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

19. NREN of NATO Silk Project NREN Associations • CEENet • CARENA • RENATA NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management

20. NREN of NATO Silk Project Issues inNational Networking Government and industry are working to solve technical problems such as increasing speed, capacity, connectivity, reliability, and interfaces of electronic networks. Political and economic problems are also receiving increased attention. But a number of other important issues will need to be resolved before national networking can reach its full potential. Problems include: • Determining costs and establishing fees; • Guaranteeing universal access; • Providing adequate user support and training; • Determination of network use and management policies; • Overcoming organizational resistance to networking; • Providing directories and maintaining quality control of information resources; • Fitting network services to research and education norms for formal and informal communication. These problems will be extremely difficult to resolve because a national network will connect a variety of institutions with differing goals, norms of behavior, and needs and because the network will still consist of a collection of smaller, independent networks. The library and education communities have expertise to lend in these areas, but they need to make both their expertise and their views better known to policy makers. NATO ANW: The 4th CEENet Workshop on Network Management