National Rresearch and Education Telecommunication Network - State and Perspectives by Mikhail Zgurovski

National Rresearch and Education Telecommunication Network - State and Perspectives

Mikhail Zgurovski, Rector of NTUU "Kiev Polytechnic Institute" (KPI), Minister of Education
Boris Paton, President of Ukrainian Academy of Science
Yuri Yakimenko, First Vice-Rector of KPI

2. General URAN Project characteristics

Project of building National Telecommunication Network for Research and Education Institutions in Ukraine with access to Internet intends to create Computer Information Infrastructure for Science and Education.

Project realisation will allow:

To provide the whole spectrum of Internet services to Universities and Research Institutions of National Academy of Science of Ukraine (NASU)
Implementation of telecommunication technologies into Research and Education
Creation and dissemination of distributed Information Resources in Research and Education.

The Project has been developed by Ministry of Education of Ukraine, NASU and KPI. Legal basis for the project is outlined in National Program of Informatisation.

3. URAN Project: Main Definitions

URAN (Ukrainian Research and Academic Network) project is being realised according to Joint Resolution of Ministry of Education of Ukraine and Presidium of NASU and conception approved/revised by NATO and partner Universities from Germany and Netherlands (Aachen University and Delft TU - Comments Y.D.).

To facilitate project realisation the Association of Research and Education Network Users have been created. Members of Association are Universities and Research Institutions of NASU. Executive Body of Association is the Center of European Integration (CEI), regional structure includes Regional Centers of Association and Network.

The founding members of Association are:

Center of European Integration (CEI)
Ministry of Education of Ukraine presented by Institute of Methods and Tools for Education
National Academy of Science of Ukraine (NASU) presented by International Education Center of Information Technologies (ICIT) under auspice of Institute of Cybernetics
National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute"
Institute of Applied System Analysis of Ministry of Education and NASU
State University "Lvivska Polytechnica", Lviv
National Mining Academy, Dnipropetrovsk
Donetsk State Polytechnic University, Donetsk
Odessa Polytechnic University, Odessa
Kharkiv State Polytechnic Institute

According to Statute Association is open to new members. Currently Association has more that 40 members.

(Intermediate list of URAN Association members can be found at http://marx.terena.nl/inet/uren/uran-memberlist.html - Comments Y.D.)

URAN basic principles:

The main goal of the Project is building National Backbone Network of Research and Education organisations with Internet access
The main components of the Network are Kiev Communication Center with access to Internet and 5 Regional Centers in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odessa
At the first stage, Project resource will be used on building backbone and creation of organisational and technical structures for network operation and management.