CEENet
Central and Eastern European Networking Association
Romania
Networking organization
Romanian National Computer Network for Research and Higher
Education RNC
Ministry of Research and Technology
Str. Mendeleev 21 - 25, Sector 1
Bucharest 70 168, Romania
Organizational structure
RNC is developed in the frame of National Project funded by
Ministry of Research and Technology and Ministry of Education. The general
direction for developing RNC are adopted by the RNC Council which has
representatives from the main organizations involved in the network
development: National Commission for Informatics, Ministry of Research and
Technology, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Communication, RNC manager and
other representatives from strategic bodies. Ministry of Research and
Technology and Ministry of Education have the responsibility of implementing
and developing the network with the main objective to connect all research
institutes and universities before 1996.
Actual topology
See the picture
Due to a great concentration of research institutes and universities in
Bucharest, it was necessary to setup a backbone network in Bucharest. The
international connectivity is provided by two links:
- a 64 kbps satellite link between Bucharest and Vienna for connection to
EBONE
- a 9.6 terrestrial link between Bucharest and Amsterdam for connection to
EuropaNet.
Number of hosts and estimated number of users
- 522 hosts registered into DNS
- over 5000 final users
- 26 institutes connected by leased lines
- over 120 institutions connected by dial up
Plans for the future
- Upgrade the international links.
- Consolidate the robustness of national backbone network
- Upgrade the speed of the Bucharest backbone lines
- Consolidate the user access by increasing the number of dial-up lines
and providing terminal servers
- Provide information servers
Main obstacles
- Low speed on the international and national links
- Poor quality of switched telephone lines
- Poor cabling inside and outside of buildings for the connection to the
public telephone network
- Availability of server resources and other computer and communication
equipment for user access