2.  Evolution of Romanian NREN: major
milestones
 Before joining GEANT
 After joining GEANT
 Building and operating RoEduNet2
National DWDM optical network for education and
research
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3.  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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4.  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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5.  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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8.  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
equipments, software upgrades etc.)
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9. 10 Gbps
August
2004
10 Gbps
June 2009
Maps by Michael
Enrico Network
Engineering &
Planning Team
DANTE
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