1. Academic and Research Network of Slovenia Avgust Jauk NATO ANW, Ljubljana, Sep. 2001

2. Content Introduction ARNES Services – Connectivity – Network Services – User Support User community International Cooperation

3. Introduction Established by the government of Slovenia in 1992 Public, non-profit institution Board of Directors – Ministry of Education, Science and Sport – Ministry of Information Society – Representative of employees Annual Operating Plan, Annual Report Technical board: technology, services, development Funded primarily by ministries

4. ARNES Services Connectivity – Domestic connectivity PoPs in 18 major towns Backbone: lines from 512 kbit/s to 155 Mbit/s – 274 organizations connected via leased line – Access capacity from 64 Kbit/s to 155 Mbit/s 1520 dial-up ports (POTS and ISDN) – 50,000 individuals from 1,200 institutions – International connectivity 155 Mbit/s line to the pan-European backbone TEN-155

5. ARNES Services – SIX: Slovenian Internet Exchange established to avoid exchanging local traffic via international lines currently 8 members (ISPs with their own international lines)

8. Incoming International Traffic in GBytes

9. Ways to connect to ARNES Permanent connection - leased line - frame relay Dial-up connection - analogue telephone network - ISDN New options - wireless connections - private optical fibres - xDSL, cable modems

10. ARNES Services Network services – Servers for E-mail, WWW, FTP, News, MBONE, IRC, etc – Management of.SI Domain registration Primary DNS server – SI-CERT: Slovenian Computer Emergency Response Team Development of new services

11. ARNES Services User support – Help desk – Manuals, CDs – Consultancy on connectivity, services – Presentations on seminars organized by users – Presentations on conferences, exhibitions – Presentations on workshops

12. User Community

13. Costs and Funding Costs – 60 % international connectivity – 20 % domestic connectivity – 11 % purchasing of equipment – 5 % personnel costs – 4 % all other costs Funding – 95 % Ministry of Eductation, Science and Sport – 5 % Development departments in industry

14. International Cooperation Full national member of TERENA (Trans-European Research and Educational Networking Association) Shareholder of DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Networking Technology to Europe) – Non-profit company which manages pan-European education and research backbone TEN-155

15. International Cooperation Member of CEENet (Central and Eastern European Networking Association) – Organizes a series of educational workshops Member of RIPE NCC (Resseaux IP Europeans) – Administrative and technical coordination to allow the operation of European IP networks Participate in many European projects in the field of network technologies and services

16. Conclusion ARNES activities: – Development, operation and management of networking infrastructure for education and research in Slovenia It has to closely follow developments in the area of networking technologies and services International collaboration is of utmost importance – Exchange of ideas – Joint development efforts