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FREEnet
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FREEnet
The network For Research,
Education and Engineering |
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Website |
http://www.free.net/ |
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Email |
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Affiliation |
N.D.Zelinsky Institute of
Organic Chemistry (ZIOC RAS) |
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Home |
47, Leninskii prospekt,
Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation |
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Status |
Russian Association of
Academic and Research Networks |
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Subsidies |
none |
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Established |
1991 |
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Max speed |
15 Gbit/s |
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Commodity |
3 Gbit/s |
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GEANT |
1 Gbit/s |
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Customers connected |
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Cities |
7 |
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Univ/research |
20+ |
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Commercial |
none |
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CEENGINE status assessment |
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Status |
Selfsustainable |
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General Overview
FREEnet (the
network For Research, Education, and Engineering), a corporate noncommercial
computer network, connects the academic and research computer networks of the
Russian Academy of Sciences research institutes, universities, higher education
institutions and other scientific, educational, and research organizations.
History
FREEnet was
established on 20 June 1991 by N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry (ZIOC)
of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) with the Network Operation Center at
Computer Assistance to Chemical Research of RAS. In nineties, when research and
educational community in fSU countries lacked the Internet services, FREEnet has
developed infrastructure integrated 15 Russian regional RENs as well as some
NRENs abroad. The total number of universities and research institution using
FREEnet services at those time overcome 350. Later, in accordance with both
academic community changing needs, and with general trends of Russian research
and educational networking, FREEnet concentrated mostly on providing network
infrastructure and advanced services, which users need especially for their
research projects, rather than providing just basic Internet services.
FREEnet
participated in numerous national and international projects, including those
supported by the Ministry of Sciences, Russian Foundation for Basic Research,
etc.
Services
Currently,
FREEnet provides the following services to its users:
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High-speed Internet access via a dedicated line. Both IPv4 and IPv6
protocols are available on each access link. The choice of the protocol
stack used is up to each user.
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Creation of fault-tolerant systems
- Remote
management of the user's network infrastructure
- Traffic
classification and assured forwarding services (Class Based QoS)
- VPNs
over MPLS network infrastructure
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Collocation of user's equipment at FREEnet PoPs
- IPTV
broadcasting over multicast IPv4 and routing of multicast streams among
users.
- Dark
fiber and L2 channels via Ethernet infrastructure.
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