1. MARNet Building the Skopje MAN Prof. Dr. Borislav Popovski President MARNet Management Board borop@marnet.net.mk SEEREN Inauguration Event - Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan.09.2004

2. 2  SEEREN  MANI  GMON  SEEGRID MARNET - Ongoing Projects SEEREN Inauguration - Thessaloniki, Jan.09.2004

3. 3  SEEREN (South Eastern European Research and Education Networking)  Start: Dec. 2002, Duration 18 months  Budget: 1.2 M€  Main Objective: To interconnect the regional SEE NRENs to GEANT  Participants: Al, B&H, Bg, RM, S&Mn, Gr, Hu and Ro.  MARNET linked to GEANT via 4 Mbps MARNet - SEEREN SEEREN Inauguration - Thessaloniki, Jan.09.2004

4. 4 MARNET - MANI  NATO NIG MANI (MARNet Advanced Network Infrastructure )  Start: Dec. 2002, Duration 24 months  Budget: 200 K€ (NATO Science Programme funding)  Main Objective: To establish MAN in Skopje area based on wireless links and gigabit multilayer switches that will interconnect University campuses’ LANs  Participants: Faculties and Research institutes in Skopje SEEREN Inauguration - Thessaloniki, Jan.09.2004

5. 5 MANI Architecture SEEREN Inauguration - Thessaloniki, Jan.09.2004

6. 6 MANI Wireless Topology Base Station Wireless PMP Relay Station Campus Technical Engineering Campus Architecture & Civil Eng. Campus Medical Science MARNet NOC & Campus Social Sciences Campus Agriculture Campus Natural Sciences & Mathematics Wireless link n x 2Mbps Laser link 100Mbps with 10Mbps radio backup GEANT SEEREN SEEREN Inauguration - Thessaloniki, Jan.09.2004

7. 7 Skopje Wireless MAN PMP Relay point MRD PMP Campus Technical Eng PMP Campus Arch & Civil Eng PMP Campus Medical Sciences PMP Campus Nat. Sciences and Math. PMP Campus Agriculture MARNET - NOC

8. 8 MARNET - GMON  GMON (Gigabit MARNET Metro Optical Network)  Start: Apr. 2003, Duration 12 months  Budget: 190 K€ (Austrian Government Grant)  Main Objective: To establish MAN in Skopje area based on optical fiber links that will interconnect University campuses’ LANs  Participants: Faculties and Research Institutes in Skopje SEEREN Inauguration - Thessaloniki, Jan.09.2004

9. 9 GMON Architecture SEEREN Inauguration - Thessaloniki, Jan.09.2004

10. 10 MARNET - SEEGRID  SEEGRID (South Eastern European GRid- enabled eInfrastructure Development )  Start: May 2004, Duration 24 months  Budget: 1 M€ from which 80 K€ for RM (EU FP6 funding)  Main Objective: To migrate and test Grid applications developed by pan-European Grid efforts in the regional infrastructure. To demonstrate one more Grid application of regional interest  Participants: Swi, Tu, Cro, Al, B&H, Bg, RM, S&Mn, Gr, Hu and Ro. SEEREN Inauguration - Thessaloniki, Jan.09.2004

11. 11 SEEREN - CERT SEEREN Inauguration - Thessaloniki, Jan.09.2004