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Academic and Research Network of Slovenia

Marko Bonač Arnes

Some facts abo t Slo enia Some facts about Slovenia

• 2 mio inhabitants
• 20 000 km2
• 20.000 km2
• borders to Italy, Austria,

H d C i Hungary and Croatia

• 4 universities, > 1000 schools
• NREN Arnes established in 1992

Overview of work, staff and budget , g

“Academic network”

• “Academic network”
• Services for schools
• SI-CERT
• SIX (Slovenian internet exchange)

SIX (Slovenian internet exchange)

• Domain registration under .si
• Staff: 43 + students
• Budget: 6,5 M EUR

Governance

• Supervisory board (appointed by the Ministry
• f higher education, science and technology

and by the Ministry of education and sport)

• This board approves the annual report and

plan & budget for the next year

• Technical board (directors of university

computer & information centers etc)

• Discussion forum for development plans
• General manager

Users Use s

• Universities (4

21 connections) Universities (4, 21 connections)

• Research institutes (>50)
• Secondary schools (>150)
• Primary schools (>500)

Primary schools ( 500)

• Libraries, museums (>175)
• Around 200.000 end users

Schools ?

• A lot of work

Diff t ki d f k

• Different kind of work
• Schools need neutral help
• Connectivity is only one of the services
• Politically rewarding

Politically rewarding

• A way to achieve critical mass in a small

country country

• Some tensions with commercial ISPs

International connectivity

GN3 j t

• GN3 project
• Leased fibre
• Ljubljana – Vienna (Austria)
• Ljubljana – Zagreb (Croatia)
• Geant plus (10 Gbps IP + 10 Gbps for projects)
• Geant plus (10 Gbps IP + 10 Gbps for projects)
• 5 Gbps are used for the access to commodity

internet internet

GEANT network

Backbone – leased fibre

Backbone – logical connections

Ways to connect to the backbone

Arnes has PoPs in mayor towns The connection to PoP has to be paid by the

• rganization

O ti l ti (240) Optical connections (240)

• Most of them owned by organizations

Other connections

• xDSL, CATV, ISDN, Wireless, Leased line

We recomment laying optical fibre in cities

Activities

C ti it

• Connectivity
• Hosting websites
• Hosting virtual servers

E mail (with anti spam anti virus)

• E-mail (with anti-spam, anti-virus)
• FTP server
• Security (firewalls, projects, SI-CERT)
• Multimedia (videoconferencing streaming)
• Multimedia (videoconferencing, streaming)

Ser ices cont Services cont.

Ed ( th 100 i ti )

• Eduroam (eq. on more than 100 organisations)
• AAI infrastructure
• National grid infrastructure
• Education (e g seminars about IPv6)

Education (e.g. seminars about IPv6),

• Helpdesk (for all services)
• Applications for schools
• portal,
• repository for e content
• repository for e-content,
• community based tools for learning e.g. Moodle

National Safer Internet Center

• Arnes, Faculty of Social Sciences, The

, y , Consumer Protection Association

• supported by Ministry of Higher Education,

Science and Technology Science and Technology

• all important stakeholders
• Center activities
• Center activities
• SAFE-SI – national awareness activities
• Spletno oko – reporting illegal content online

p p g g

• Nasvet za net – helpline for children
• Arnes particularly active in teacher training

p y g programe

User s pport User support

B i ( l) t

• Basic (general) user support
• First contact, covers administration procedures
• More than 100 000 calls per year
• More than 100.000 calls per year
• Technical support and advice for using

services services

• More than 15.000 cases per year
• Advice and support for organizations in
• Advice and support for organizations in

connecting their LANs to Arnes

• More than 300 connections per year
• Protecting users networks

SI-CERT SI-CERT

• to assist in security incident resolution
• to assist in security incident resolution
• established in 1995
• member of
• FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and

Security Teams) www.first.org

• TF-CSIRT (European CERT group)

www terena org/activities/tf csirt www.terena.org/activities/tf-csirt

• Arnes manages also government CERT
• security awareness campaign

Slo enian Internet E change (SIX) Slovenian Internet Exchange (SIX)

• Traffic exchange among ISPs in Slovenia
• Arnes as a neutral party manages SIX

p y g

• 15 ISPs present

M tl t d ith 10 Gb

• Mostly connected with 10 Gbps
• SISPA – National association of Slovenian ISPs

Arnes staff

• Planning, managing the backbone (3,8)

Planning, managing the backbone (3,8)

• Establishing, managing connections, firewalls (7,0)
• User services (6,4)

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• Multimedia (2,5)
• National grid initiative (1,5)

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• Communication with users (schools) (2,5)
• Projects for safer internet (0,9)
• Eduroam and AAI development (3,1)
• SI-CERT (3,6)
• Domain registration and DNS (4,5)
• Administration and internal IT support (6,0)
• Students for user support (10 FTE)