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Appendix 17. NREN Developments in Romania

Submitted by dr. Octavian RUSU (octavian@roedu.net), General Manager RoEduNet,

January 2008

Introduction:

Networking services for research and education in Romania are provided by RoEduNet, the

Romanian NREN since 1998when the organization has been officially established through

Romanian government decision 515/1998. RoEduNet, as Romanian NREN, is member of the

GEANT2  consortium  (www.geant.net),  TERENA  (www.terena.org)  and  CEENet

(www.ceenet.org) associations. There is a unique network infrastructure in Romania, to serve

research and education communities

Networking services for academic and research community in Romania were provided before

RoEduNet by some Universities within the country, Universities that hosts the main Network

Operation Centers (NOC) of the current RoEduNet infrastructure. The most important milestones

that lead to Romanian NREN ­ RoEduNet (using a bottom-up approach) are:

1.

1990 ­ joint research project to introduce e-mail service by Politehnica University in

Bucharest and Technische Universitat Darmstadt Germany;

2.

1991-1992 ­ joint research project between Politehnica University Bucharest and

Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN - Verein) ­ first dedicated international connection

Bucharest ­ Darmstadt;

3.

1993 ­ First national dedicated connections from Iasi and Cluj Napoca to Bucharest

(costs supported by Universities);

4.

1996 ­ The network is recognized by the Ministry of Education and was defined in the

strategy as RDIS (Romanian Higher Education Network).

According to its statute, RoEduNet provides data communication services for research and

education in Romania and provides connectivity to the GEANT network and to the Internet for

research and academic community within the country. Also, RoEduNet facilitates research in its

own right in the field of data communication, participating into research projects and providing

experimental test beds to implement new services and advanced network technologies.

Networking Infrastructure - January 2008:

National infrastructure:

The communication infrastructure of RoEduNet is organized in three layers, the first two of them

operated by RoEduNet NOCs located in the major cities: Bucharest (B), Galati (GL), Iasi (IS),

Tg. Mures (MS), Cluj Napoca (CJ), Timisoara (TM) and Craiova (DJ):

1.

Layer 0 ­ national backbone links (between NOCs) and international connectivity

(RoEduNet main NOC to the GEANT POP in Budapest)

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