Goran kvar 21 02 2008 Special Projects Manager

Goran Škvarč 21. 02. 2008. Special Projects Manager

CARNet q Croatian Academic and Research Network; q Started as a project in 1991; q Officially founded by the Government in 1995. q Headquarters at Zagreb; q Regional centers in six cities of Croatia - Zagreb, Rijeka, Osijek, Split; Pula and Dubrovnik; q Over 80 employees. q Annual budget – 100 mil. kunas (14 mil. euros) 2

Users q From the beginning of CARNet: q q q q q institutions from the systems of science and higher education: universities and their respective faculties; other institutions of higher education, and scientific and research institutes. Public/government Institutes; Student housing sites; Ministry of Science, Education and Sports; Ministry’s Agencies; Staff and students of the above mentioned institutions. q Since 2006. : q q q Primary and Secondary Schools; Pupil’s housing sites; Pupils. 3

Users q 245 academic institutions @ 380 locations; q 1346 educational institutions @ 2606 locations; q Connections from 2 Mbps - 10 Gbps; q All costs covered by CARNet. 4

Connectivity q GEANT 2 - EU project, 4 years, 10 GBit/s 5

Backbone 6

Basic Services: q AAI@edu. hr - digital authentication and authorization infrastructure; q Internet - access to Internet; q E-mail; q CMU/Mobile. CARNet/XCARNet/Metro. CARNet - network access; q Edupoint - CARNet Educational Department; q Helpdesk - user’s support; q Network services - ftp, news, irc, ntp…; q DNS - national top. hr domain administration; q www. hr - Croatia’s Homepage and Catalogue; q Center for Online Databases; q Cisco Academy - Cisco Academy of Network Technologies; q CERT & Abuse - computer security; q ELA - E-learning academy; q CUC - CARNet Users Conference; q Multimedia - room and desktop videoconferencing systems, streaming, Mo. D; 7

AAI@Edu. Hr q AAI@Edu. Hr - virtual electronic identity; q Unique for every CARNet user; q Precondition for almost all services; q 561 713 electronic identities in AAI@Edu. Hr system at the end of January 2008. 8

HUSO – Hosting Service for Primary and Secondary Schools q For Schools: q q q q LDAP; DNS; Web space (school and presonal web pages); CMS - Content Management System; National School Portal (http: //www. skole. hr); National Portal for Distance Learning “Nikola Tesla”; E-library (http: //e-knjiznica. carnet. hr); Content filtering. q For individuals: q Electronic identity for everybody; q i. Pernica - web interface enabling: q q e-mail; Address book Calendar Document handling. 9

HUSO Users 10

CMS q Content Management System: q Dynamic system tor management and creation of school websites on previously defined look and standars using web interface; q Tool to utilize web services; q 488 schools within CMS. 11

Schools within CMS 12

National School Portal 13

Educational content q Online courses: q q Available through LMS (Learning Management System); Math, Physics, Biology and Chemistry for Secondary Schools; ECDL – 7 modules; Various courses. 14

Math, Physics, Biology and Chemistry for Secondary Schools 15

e-knjiznica. carnet. hr 16

Časopis VIDI 17

e-knjiznica. carnet. hr/e-kids 18

E-knjige i časopisi 19

Center for Online Databases 20

Seamless Searching and Linking Journals@O vid Discovery Search Seamless Linking Full Text 21

Microsoft Encarta 22

Videoconferencing and MOD q Room and Desktop VC Systems; q Equipment: q Polycom VSX 3000 (150) q PC sistem Polycom PVX (1500) q Adobe Connect in test phase; q 32 TCRs 23

E-Islands 24