Hungary

1. Country: Hungary
Country suffix: .hu

Population: 10.3 million
Area: 93 030 sq km
Capital: Budapest

2. Estimated number of hosts in the local Internet
Approx. 115 000 hosts (December 1999)

3. Estimated number of users in theeducational/commercial/governmental sectors:
educational: 420 000
commercial: 65 000
governmental: 5 000

4. List of major commercial ISP's

5. List of major non-commercial ISP's

6. Internet Service Providers operating their ownbackbone networks:

I. Hungarnet
Runs - synchron serial connections using HDLC
64, 128, 256, 512 and 1024 kbps lines
-ATM 30, 155 Mbps
- FDDI 100 Mbps
- Microwave 2 Mbps
Present in all 6 major cities.
Foreign connection: 1 terrestrial link (TEN-155), 34 Mbps, ATM to be upgraded to 155 Mbps (in March 2000)
Non-commercial ISP.

II. Sulinet
Present in all 6 major cities, connection through
- synchron serial connections speed: 512 kbps
- ISDN speed: 64 kbps
Foreign connections: 4.5 Mbps (through Hungarnet).
Non-commercial ISP.

III. TVnet
Present in Budapest only, supplies IP through CATV.
Foreign link: 256k, destination unknown.
Commercial ISP.

IV. Euroweb
resent in all major cities.
Foreign connections:
- 4 Mbps (KPNQwest)
- 1,5 Mbps (Cable and Wireless).
Commercial ISP.

V. Datanet
Present in all major cities, managed nx64 kbps (up to 2 Mbps) lines, Frame Relay
Foreign connections:
- 2 satellite, 1,5 Mbps (UUNet) and 1,5 Mbps (Global One)
- 1 terrestrial, 1 Mbps (British Telecom)
Commercial ISP.

VI. Elender
Present in all major cities, connections through leased lines
running at 64k-128k.
Foreign connections:
- 6 Mbps, technology: VSAT
- 2 Mbps (Europe)
Commercial ISP.

VII C3 (Center for Culture and Communication - Soros Foundation)
Present in all major cities
Technology used to operate the backbone network and its speed
- 64 kbps, 768 kbps leased lines
Foreign connections:
- 1536/768 Kbps (asymetric download/upload) VSAT satellite link (TAIDE, Nittedal and Stockholm),
- 2x 2 Mbps ATM/MBS (through Hungarnet's TEN-155 link) connected to the ENCART network (on demand)
Non-commercial

VIII Banknet
Present in all major cities
Foreign connections:
- 14 Mbps capacity
- providers: Teleglobe, Cable & Wireless, MCI, Deutsche Telekom

IX Antenna Hungária
Technology used to operate the backbone network and its speed:
in country level: microwave based (SDH with STM-1 rings)
in Budapest: optical backbone (STM-4)
Number of major cities connected to the backbone:
all (51 endpoints country-wide, several nodes in Budapest)
Links out of the country how many, their speed and technology::
- 4 Mbps, terrestrial (EBONE, Europe)
- 512 kbps, satellite (Sprint, USA)
Commercial

X. Interware
Technology used to operate the backbone network and its speed:
512 kbps leased line
Number of major cities connected to the backbone
Budapest, Székesfehérvár
Links out of the country how many, their speed and technology:
1 terrestrial link, 2 Mbps (KPN-QUEST, Amsterdam)
Commercial

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