CEENet
Central and Eastern European Networking Association
Hungary
Networking organization:
Hungarian Academic and Research Network - HUNGARNET
Organizational structure
HUNGARNET is an association and also the network of Hungarian
institutes of higher education, research and development, libraries and other
public collections. HUNGARNET funding comes from the R&D Information
Infrastructure Program (IIF) sponsored by Hungarian Academy of Science, The
National Committee of Technology Development, the Ministry of Culture and
Education and the National Science Foundation. About 500 organizations have
access to HUNGARNET services. HUNGARNET as an association represents Hungary in
international networking organizations.
Generic Services
HUNGARNET provides access to the Internet and several other
national network services over leased lines and the public packet switched data
network. Centrally supported and coordinated services are:
- e-mail
- e-mail gateways between the different e-mail systems
- information services
- directory services
- individual accounts and login
Actual topology
HUNGARNET is subscriber to EBONE and EMPB/EuropaNET as well.
There are two 64 kbps leased lines to EBONE ( Vienna EBS). These two lines
should be upgraded to a single 256 kbps line in near future. HUNGARNET uses two
64 kbps interfaces on the EMPB/EuropaNET node in Budapest as well. These two
interfaces should be upgraded to a single 256 kbps interface very soon.
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