RENAM: NREN of Moldova

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RENAM NREN of Moldova
NATO ANW The Fourth CEENet Workshop on Network
Management Management Issues for Excellence in
Research and Education Networking 08-11th
October 2004
Research and Educational Networking Association
of Moldova
Dr.P. Bogatencov, Dr.T. Cibotaru, I.Covalenco,
A.Goncearuc, Dr.G. Secrieru, Dr.V.Sidorenco,
B.Varzari. RENAM Executive Director board
Chisinau, 2004
www.renam.md
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RENAM Research and Educational Networking
Association of Moldova
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RENAM now Intracity Backbone. WAN Topology in
Chisinau City
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RENAM Organization Structure
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Network Nodes of RENAMBatch of basic services

• Leased line and Dial-up connectivity providing
• WWW sites design, host and management
• e-mail service providing
• gopher service providing
• ftp service providing
• telnet service providing
• databases service providing
• Distance Learning Services
• e-Tutorials development
• Electronic Libraries access and management
• consulting and training

Virtual Classrooms
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Basic information resources, accumulated and
available within RENAM network

• web-sites of leading scientific and educational
  institutions, providing necessary navigation and
  information access facilities
• factographic database Scientific publications in
  Moldova, containing annotations and abstracts of
  papers and full text of some of them
• annotated catalogue of Moldova periodicals
• hypertext database Conferences, seminars,
  meetings and other scientific events, taking
  place in Moldova

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Basic informational resources, accumulated and
available within RENAM network

• electronic versions of some journals, published
  in ASM and in Universities of Moldova
• methodical materials and computerized curricula,
  including those ready for distant education
• systemized information on access to databases,
  generated by largest libraries and information
  centers of Moldova, provision of information
  exchange and access to information systems of
  scientific libraries.

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The Program of future RENAM network
infrastructure development includes

• up-grading main network communication links using
  modern broadband high-speed and wireless
  communication technologies
• creation of own fiber optic media for data
  transfer, backbone in Chisinau city
• shifting of the basic highways of internodal
  links on new communication technologies ???
  (155 Mbps - OC3), Gigabit Ethernet, IPv6,
  Internet2
• widening RENAM connections for covering new
  regions of the country
• involving additional educational and research
  bodies of Moldova in RENAM networking activities
• improvement of the existing connections and
  establishing new Internet access links.

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Gigabit Ethernet technology RENAM fiber optic
segment
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NATO Project RENAM-RoEduNet networks direct link
and gateway construction (NIG 978385)

• The project of communication bridge was devoted
  to the creation of new direct, reliable and
  effective bi-directional connection link between
  two neighbour NRENs
• RENAM Research and Educational Networking
  Association of Moldova and
• RoEduNet Romanian Education Network
• These two networks represent national networking
  infrastructures, which are opened for all
  Universities, colleges, schools, scientific
  institutions and cover all the territory of two
  neighbour countries.

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RENAM RoEduNet direct link
Chisinau
Iasi
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RENAM (Chisinau, Moldova)-RoEduNet (Iasi,
Romвnia)General Connection Scheme
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URAN partner NREN in Ukraine
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Future of IT Can we predict it exactly?
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Thank you very much for your attention!
NATO ANW The Fourth CEENet Workshop on Network
Management Management Issues for Excellence in
Research and Education Networking 08-11th
October 2004
Questions ?
Research and Educational Networking Association
of Moldova, www.renam.md Academy of Sciences of
Moldova, www.asm.md Technical University of
Moldova, www.utm.md State University of Moldova,
www.usm.md Academy of Economic
Studies www.ase.md
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