1. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 20051 TERENA Compendium 2005: Summary of key findings Bert van Pinxteren TERENA http://www.terena.nl/compendium

2. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 20052 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

3. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 20053 Summary of key findings: Legal form Users/clients Network Traffic Services Funding Bonus material!

4. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 20054 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

5. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 20055 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.

6. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 20056 Users/clients (1) Gb connections of Universities

7. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 20057 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 (…).

8. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 20058 Network (1) Dark fibre on NREN backbones

9. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 20059 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.

10. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 200510 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

11. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 200511 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.

12. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 200512 Traffic (3): congestion index

13. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 200513 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

14. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 200514 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

15. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 200515 Bonus material https://www.terena.nl/compendium/ 2005/login.phphttps://www.terena.nl/compendium/ 2005/login.php

16. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 200516 Bonus material Compendium 2005 - spreadsheets home :: compendium :: 2005 :: spreadsheets These 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.homecompendium2005spreadsheetsshareask Basic information –Legal form of NRENs, partner organisations - 6.19_6.20_organisation_info.xls6.19_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 Ch._2.8_inst_connect_marketshare_graphs.xls –Uptake of IPv6 - ipv6_unis_research_1.5_1.7.xlsipv6_unis_research_1.5_1.7.xls –Numbers of connected institutions and bandwidth - 1.5_inst_conn_speeds.xls1.5_inst_conn_speeds.xls Network –Core capacity - Ch.3.2_Core Capacity00-07l.xlsCh.3.2_Core Capacity00-07l.xls –Core network size - Ch.3.4_Core Network Size multiyear.xlsCh.3.4_Core Network Size multiyear.xls –External links - Ch.3.5_external_links.xlsCh.3.5_external_links.xls –Dark fibre - Ch.3.7_darkfibre.xlsCh.3.7_darkfibre.xls Traffic –External traffic ('T3' and 'T4')- Ch.4.2_traffic_t3_t4_multiyear.xlsCh.4.2_traffic_t3_t4_multiyear.xls –Traffic load - Ch.4_links_load_for_final.xlsCh.4_links_load_for_final.xls –Congestion - 3.5_congestion.xls3.5_congestion.xls Services - 5.3_5.4_5.6_5.7_services.xls5.3_5.4_5.6_5.7_services.xls Tasks, Staffing, Funding - 4_funding_staffing.xls4_funding_staffing.xls Appendix –Number of PoPs and of managed links on the network - 2.1_2.2_network.xls2.1_2.2_network.xls –Traffic with the general Internet - external_traffic_3.3_3.4.xls (use columns D and E)external_traffic_3.3_3.4.xls

17. Bert van Pinxteren GA 24, Budapest, 21 October 200517 Wise Words Check and double-check your data!