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  Evolution of Romanian NREN: major milestones   Before joining GEANT

  After joining GEANT

  Building and operating RoEduNet2 National DWDM optical network for education and

research

  1990 – 1997   First connection (dial-up) with help from

Technische Universitat Darmstadt – fist “Internet” for Romania

  Struggle to have some kind of connectivity, all services paid by Universities, ISP become much stronger than Romanian NREN

  Big issues with incumbent operator: very high prices, low bandwidth, poor services

  1998 – 2001   1998 – RoEduNet recognized as Romanian

education network – institution officially established – the only good news

  High prices for connectivity – not enough bandwidth for connected institution, very low budget

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  Two institutions as NRENs in Romania: RoEduNet for education only (and research outside Bucharest) – money spent on two bodies – justification: there should not be a monopoly of RoEduNet

  RoEduNet joined GEANT at the end of 2001 (based on the fact that RoEduNet do not offer commercial services). Benefits started to appear right after:   Learn from the experience of other NREN   Learn from results of different projects we were involved in.

  The most important achievement in this period: the idea that we can have a state of the art DF based network nationwide. For this purpose the most important help came from:   Examples of other NRENs in Europe: PIONEER and CESNET

should be mentioned   Experience gained in projects like SEEFIRE and SEEREN   Maybe the most important: Varna Statement – output

from a meeting like this one: NATO Advanced Networking Workshop organized by CEENet, TERENA

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  Obtain support from National Authority for Scientific Research to build optical network for education and research – Varna Statement was one of the key documents in this process.

  Start the negotiations for RoEduNet2 project (DWDM network based on DF from state owned company: Telecomunicatii CFR) for at least 10 years – not a simple task but successful in the end   Agreement between Ministry of Transportation and Ministry of

Education and Research signed (March 2006)   Feasibility study done by RoEduNet: very much help from

SEEFIRE and SERENATE study (EU funded projects coordinated by TERENA)

  Direct contract of collaboration between RoEduNet and Telecomunicatii CFR (December 2006)

  Building the network:   2007 – missed tender for DWDM equipments   2008 – the network is operational at middle of November   2010 – DF based CBF with Republic of Moldova operation in May   2011 – first 100 Gbps production lambda (435 km) installed

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  Dark Fiber   Total length: 4238.8 km in 2008 + 1397 km in 2011 = 5636 km of DF   Number of segments: 46

  Sites: 56 in 2008 + 13 in 2011 = 69   In the premises of Telecomunicatii CFR: 48 + 13   RoEduNet: 8 – with redundant connections to the sites of

Telecomunicatii CFR in the same city

  Type of sites:   ROADM: 18, ADM: 23, Amplifiers: 15

  Lambdas:   10 G = 19 + 16 + 3(SDH)=38, 10 x 1G = 41: total of = 79 10 Gbps

lambdas (except lambdas to be in service this year)

  RoEduNet2 metric (as reported in 2009 for TERENA Compendium): 71557 Gbps*km – should be noted that a 19 10 Gbps lambdas and half of the 10x1G lambdas are not include in the metric (installed for our partner Telecomunicatii CFR – total metric is around 17000 Gbps*km)

  Costs:   About 5.325 MEuro for the first stage installed in 2008 for optical

equipment and installation   About 200 kEuro per year for support (lambda rerouting, replace

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10 Gbps June 2009

Maps by Michael Enrico Network Engineering & Planning Team DANTE

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