Users of the network of the project "SilkHighway"

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Users of the network of the project "SilkHighway"

• V.Navotny

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Prelude to Silk

• Extreme high costs for little connectivity
• Increasing governmental control of Internet
• Poor cooperation
• Within the countries
• Between the countries

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Silk requisites

• There must be an NREN
• The NREN has the necessary licences
• The NREN signs for operation management
• Sustainability

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Project realisation

• DVB technology
• Smaller eastern dishes
• Collaboration with Cisco
• DESY Hamburg as western hub
• Geant connection

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Silk local node

• 2.4/3.8 m dish
• Cisco 7204 router
• Cisco Catalyst 3524 switch
• Cisco Content Engine CE 560
• UPS

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Silk donors
Am Az Ge Kg Kz Tj Tm Uz
OSI ? ? ? ? ?
UNDP ?
USAID ? ?
World Bank ? ? ? ? ?
Eu S S S ?
AKF ? ? ?

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Bandwidth per 1 month (September, 2004)
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Statistic of SilkHighway
Country Bandwidth Up, Kbps CIR Down, Kbps Down, Tbyte Up, Tbyte
Am 416 1800 1,74 0,35
Az 384 1800 3,01 0,41
Ge 1024 1800 2,76 1,26
Kg 704 1800 3,99 0,90
Kz 320 1800 1,42 0,24
Tj 320 1800 1,36 0,44
Tm 320 1800 0,53 0,25
Uz 1216 3300 9,81 1,80
    Total 24,62 5,65
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The academic community

• The Soviet system
• Clear distinction between Science and Education
• Government controlled
• After 1991 funding disappeared
• Tensions
• Between Academy and Universities
• Between Universities

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Problems of users NREN

• There is no uniform technical policy
• There is no technical team
• Not coordinated actions
• Absence of high-grade networks
• Use of a network - the Intranet

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Problems. Use of the network

• Very poorly educational resources
• Very few the electronic textbooks open for wide
  access - duplication
• Distance education is not advanced
• It is not enough resources in the native language
• There is no uniform network of higher Educational
  institutions - the management system of the
  higher School and Science
• Videoconferences - ?????

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