State Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications

(SIIT&T)

“Informika”

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Tempus JEP – 27081 - 2006

Supporting and facilitating active uptake to Information and Communication Technologies for University Management in Russian Universities

Moscow, RussiaFebruary 11, 2008

Speaker: Alexey Skuratov

Deputy Director

Dear colleagues!

Already for more than 10 years our institute activities have been directed to all-round development, promotion and implementation of new information technology and telecommunications in sphere of science and education in Russia.

Director, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding member RAE, RF Honored Worker of Higher School , USSR State Prize Laureate,RF Government Award Laureate

Alexander Tikhonov

About SIIT&T Informika

Organizational Structure

Directorate Director

Deputy Directors of activities

Department of Telecommunications

Department of Scientific and Technical Programs

Department of Network Integration

Department of Information Systems

Department of Web-Technology

Department of Educational Internet-based Resources

Department of School-University System Informatization Department of CALS Technology

Engineering Department

Department of Professional Development and Training

Branch in Saint PetersburgDirector

Branch in KrasnoyarskDirector

Planned-Economic Department

Accounting Department

Maintenance Department

Postgraduate Study

Personnel Department

Archives

About SIIT&T Informika

SIIT&T Informika provides a support in development and implementation of new information technology and telecommunications in science and education, furthers forming and development of informational society in Russia and its integration to the global cyberspace, participates in design of sectoral, intersectoral and federal programs

Telecommunications

SIIT&T Informika provides telecommunication connectivity in information systems of federal science and education management. Data center of SIIT&T Informika supports scientific and educational portals, hosts domains: edu.ru, run.net, runnet,ru, mon.gov.ru, ed.gov.ru.

SIIT&T Informika supports international network segment of network Moscow–Saint Petersburg–Stockholm–Amsterdam of 2,5 GB/sec, participates in project GLORIAD aimed to build a transcontinental ring USA–Russia–China.

Within 10 years RUNNet has become a national supporting network with it’s own digital communication channels and backbone Internet access.

Telecommunications

The network numbers more than 1 500 000 individual users.

The network applies IPv6, MPLS over SDH, multicast.

The federal scientific and educational network RUNNet (Russian University Network), created and supported by SIIT&T Informika, has 55 regional network nodes.

RUNNet resources are used by scientific and educational networks of Russia such as RBNet, RASNet, RSSI, RUHEP, Freenet.

Some history about bridging the gaps…

• 1697 – Bridging first gap – Peter the Great, Copenhagen• 1993 – First IP Internet access in Russia, Moscow • 1994 – First satellite connectivity for the universities in

Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Saratov, Ulianovsk

• 1994 –First international connectivity to European NREN (NORDUnet)

• 1994 Moscow Internet eXchange• 2004 – New backbone international connectivity Moscow

– Saint Petersburg – (2,5Gb/s) - Stockholm – (622Mb/s) – Amsterdam

• 2004 – Launch of GLORIAD project Moscow – (155Mb/s) –Samara– (155Mb/s) Ekaterinburg – (155Mb/s) – Novosibirsk – (155Мб/с)- Khabariovsk – (155Мб/с) – Fuiuang

• 2005 Direct GEANT connectivity (622Mb/s)• 2007 10Gb/s International connectivity

GLORIAD / RU wide area infrastructure

Amsterdam(NetherLight)

Moscow(MskLight)

NovosibirskKhabarovsk

Hong Kong(HKLight)

to N.America

Stockholm(NothernLight)

Samara

to KRLight

basic GLORIAD nodes

transit backbone nodes

RUNNet/RBNet backbone from the birds flight

USERS

Subject oriented research networks:RSSI, RUHEP, …

Regional R&E NetworksRelarn-IP, Freenet, …

Universities > 250 Research > 200 Schools - Yes – on the experimental basis Libraries, Museums, Hospitals > 50

INTERNATIONAL BANDWIDTH

ChannelsSTM-64 (10Gb/s) Moscow – AmsterdamSTM-16 (2,5Gb/s) Moscow – Saint Petersburg -

StockholmSTM-4 (622Mb/s) Stockholm – AmsterdamSTM-16 (2,5Gb/s) Moscow – FrankfurtSTM-1 (155Mb/s) Khabarovsk – Fujuan

ConnectivityNORDUnet – 10Gb/sGEANT – 2,5Gb/sGLORIAD – 2,5Gb/sPublic-IP – 2Gb/s

Backbone

Amsterdam StockholmSaint-

PetersburgMoscow Samara

Ekaterinburg

NovosibirskKhabarovsk

GEANT Frankfurt,Copenhagen

Nizhni Novgorod

Rostov-on-Don

USA

China

NORDUnetAMS-IX

Public-IP

Public-IP

STM-16STM-4

STM-4

STM-16

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1STM-1

VC-3

2*VC-3

STM-16

GLORIAD VC-3

2*VC-3

2*VC-3

VC-3

GRIDSTM-64

BANDWIDTH IN RUSSIA

Backbone2,5Gb/s Moscow – Saint Petersburg155Mb/s (Gloriad) Moscow – Samara – Novosibirsk –

Khabarovsk73Mb/s Moscow - Ekaterinburg90Mb/s Moscow – Rostov on Don45Mb/s Moscow – Nizhni Novgorod… Last miles: 100Mb/s - 1 Gb/s (Moscow, Saint Petersburg) 2Mb/s – 10 Mb/s (Other regions)

Topology

NREN Backbone nodes

Connetivity Size(km*Gb/s)

Russia R2Net (RUNet/RBNet) 12 1,17 4700

Belgium BELNET 16 1,81 3800

Poland PIONEER 22 1,32 42000

Portugal FCCN 20 1,25 1443

Finland FUNET 16 1,44 5700

Czech Republic

CESNET 26 1,69 11016

Greece GRNET 12 1,17 4909

Ireland HEAnet 10 2.6 1200

Sweden SUNET 30 2 55000

Spain RedIRIS 20 1,7 15041

Technologies

Backbone – DWDM, SDH NG IPv6NORDUnet, RUNNet, RBNet, FreeNet MulticastEducational Streaming to the Universities Satellite content delivery7000 non-simmetric connectivity Content filtering54000 schools Internet connection

Informational resources

SIIT&T Informika has created an effective information facility for national educational community: The Federal portal “Russian Education” www.edu.ru, the core one among educational Internet-portals aimed for search and providing the most exhaustive information on education in our country.

Network resources. Official

Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

www.mon.gov.ru Federal Agency of Educationwww.ed.gov.ru Federal Agency of Sciensewww.fasi.gov.ru Federal Control Service in Educationwww.obrnadzor.gov.ruRussian Education for Foreignerswww.russia.edu.ruSupport of Management Systems of Qualitywww.quality.edu.ru

Network resources. Educational

Federal Education Portaledu.ru Portal of Primary and Secondary Education school.edu.ru Portal of additional Education of Childrenvidod.edu.ru Portal of Natural Sciencesen.edu.ru Portal of Humanitieshumanities.edu.ru Portal of Economy and Managementwww.ecsocman.edu.ru Portal of Law Scienceshttp://www.law.edu.ru/ Portal of Information TechnologiesIct.edu.ruEtc.

Example. Content delivery

MoscowLight

Equipment :SDH / SONET switch (OME 6500)Ethernet switches (CISCO 650x)

Location :M9 TelehouseK-House (Kurchatov Institute)

Additional access :RIPN F.O. network (~ 250km in Moscow)Metro CWDM/DWDM system

Connection : to RBNet IP MPLS and Informika SDH networks

(RUNnet/RBNet backbone)

The Bigger Picture ……..

EGEE/LCG-2 grid: 160 sites, 36 countries >15,000 processors, ~5 PB storageOther national & regional grids: ~60 sites, ~6,000 processors

Computer quality management

Adoption of computer quality management methods

enables to essentially upgrade products and services.

Application of computer quality management technology

in all levels of education enables to realize a strategic

planning of educational establishment activity, training

and management processes monitoring, actual teaching

programs and specialities forming, resource management

optimization in educational establishments.

Computer quality management

SIIT&T Informika develops, makes examinations and researches of computer quality management applications in the following areas:

* principle development and realization of interaction between the sector management system and university management subsystems;

* development of the sector effectiveness estimation system for telecommunication and information infrastructures in education;

* software tools and information standards creating for centralized monitoring system of training and methodological internet resources with Internet access for all levels of education;

* recommendations development on quality of teaching materials for distance studies ;

* problem analysis of information technology application in education.

Tempus Joint European Project - ICT4UM ACTIVITY TABLE – IMPLEMENTATION

Period

№ Activity table Executor

3-5 1.1 1.1. Study visits of Russian specialists to European Universities

(…)

3) University of Hamburg (organized and facilitated by EURICE and imc). Objective: to study best European practice in building complex University ICT infrastructure. The reason for picking this case is that it is a unique example of top-down design of the whole infrastructure, example which can be very interesting to Russian Universities/ imc has close links to the ICT department there

Svechnikov Sergey

Skuratov Alexey

Tikhonov Alexander

Martynov Vitaliy

5-12 1.2 1.2. Selection and study of best cases in Russia and recommendations development

INFORMIKA coordinates this activity and provides additional information collected in Russia. Resulted case studies and recommendations are being developed by the Russian group of experts. Case studies are presented to the Russian University ICT specialists at the 1st year Dissemination workshop in Moscow 

Demidova Ekaterina

Zakharova Olga

Zakharevich Elena

Ilieva Svetlana

Skuratov Alexey

Tempus Joint European Project - ICT4UM

ACTIVITY TABLE – IMPLEMENTATION

Period № Activity table Executor

8-24 2.1 2.1. Analysis and optimization of selected managerial processes in the Russian partner Universities

In order to analyse and quantitative and qualitative improvements, feedback gathering surveys will be implemented

Demidova Ekaterina

Zakharova Olga

Zakharevich Elena

Skuratov Alexey

Martynov Vitaliy

9-12 3.1 3.1 Setting up the Russian Consulting and Information Center ICT4UMSetting up a central office in Moscow (INFORMIKA):• Selection and initial training of the staff (2 persons)• Premises, equipment, etc. As well as workflow description • Center’s website development (hosting by INFORMIKA) • Promotion via different channels (resp. INFORMIKA, in coordination with dissemination activities)

Svechnikov Sergey

Demidova Ekaterina

Khaplanov Nikolay

Zakharova Olga

Zakharevich Elena

Ilieva Svetlana

Silaev Anton

Tempus Joint European Project - ICT4UM

ACTIVITY TABLE – IMPLEMENTATION

Period № Activity table Executor

12-24 3.2 3.2 Center’s pilot operation

The second year of the project will be used to support the initial period of operation which will include:• Provision of consulting services to the Russian ICT departments (via telephone and e-mail by the experts from the Russian participating organisations) •Maintaining the web repository of cases (projects, solutions, success stories)• Statistics gathering (on the basis of the enquiries analysis), website and FAQ maintenance• 2 electronic newsletter issues and distribution via INFORMIKA’s subscription

Demidova Ekaterina

Khaplanov Nikolay

Zakharova Olga

Zakharevich Elena

Ilieva Svetlana

Silaev Anton

Svechnikov Sergey

Tempus Joint European Project - ICT4UM

ACTIVITY TABLE – IMPLEMENTATION

Period № Activity table Executor

15-23 4.1 4.1 Design and implementation of 3 training workshops in Russia

The partner Universities’ experts participating in the activities 1.1, 1.2, 3.2 will design and deliver 3 training workshops for the staff of the University ICT departments from Universities of Central and North-West Russia. Every work shop will attract at least 30 representatives of University ICT departments from the region. Selection of participants will be coordinated by INFORMIKA (ICT4UM office)

Demidova Ekaterina

Skuratov Alexey

Martynov Vitaliy

Pashovkina Natalia

1-24 5 5. Dissemination and liaison building activities

• Development of the first version (basic) of ICT4UM website with information on the project

• Publishing of the project dissemination materials (brochure)

• Web dissemination, targeted publications in the specialized media (e.g.. magazine University Management)

Svechnikov Sergey

Silaev Anton

Demidova Ekaterina

Zakharevich Elena

Khaplanov Nikolay

Tempus Joint European Project - ICT4UM

ACTIVITY TABLE – IMPLEMENTATION

Period № Activity table Executor

12-24 7. 7. Quality control and monitoring

• Number of enquiries processed by the ICT4UM centre

• Number of visitors of the ICT4UM website

• Number of downloads of the project materials

Khaplanov Nikolay

Zakharevich Elena

Silaev Anton

Skuratov Alexey

1-24 8.2 8.2 Daily project coordination, management and administration

• Everyday internal and external communication

• Project documentation and filing

• Keeping track of the project finances

• Reporting

• Informing the PMB and facilitating its operation

 In order to perform these duties, the Project Officer will be appointed. The officer will be supported by the side of the local facilitator in Russia - INFORMIKA

Zakharova Olga

Zakharevich Elena

Skuratov Alexey

Tikhonov Alexander

1-24 Arrangement of meetings within the project, processing all necessary documentation

Pashovkina Natalia

Skuratov Alexey

Thank you for your attentionThank you for your attention!!

Alexey Skuratov E-mail: skuratov@informika.ru