4.2 Hungarian Academic And Research Network (Hungarnet)
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This article is from the Hungarian FAQ, by Zoli Fekete fekete@bc.edu with numerous contributions by others.
4.2 Hungarian Academic And Research Network (Hungarnet)
This information is also available on
<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/hungarnet.html>.
Organisational Structure:
HUNGARNET is an association and also the computer network of Hungarian
institutes of higher education, research and development, libraries and
other public collections. HUNGARNET funding comes from the R&D
Information Infrastructure Program (IIF) sponsored by the Hungarian
Academy of Science, the National Committee of Technological
Development, the Ministry for Culture and Education and the National
Science Foundation. About 500 organizations have access to HUNGARNET
services. HUNGARNET as an association represents Hungary in
international networking organizations (e.g. TERENA).
Generic Services:
HUNGARNET provides access to the Internet and several other national
network services over leased lines and the public packet switched data
network. Lot of different services (e.g. gopher, ftp, WWW, data bases)
provided by member organizations are available on the net. Centrally
supported and coordinated services are:
- email (internet SMPT, EARN BSMTP, OSI X.400, UUCP, XXX ELLA)
- email gateways between the different email systems above
- distribution services (LISTSERV, news)
- information services (ftp, gopher, WWW servers, data bases)
- directory services (X.500)
- individual accounts and login
External Connectivity:
HUNGARNET is subscriber to EBONE and EMPB/EuropaNET as well. There are
two 64 kbps leased lines to EBONE (Vienna EBS). These two lines should
be upgraded to a single 256 kbps line in the near future. HUNGARNET
uses two 64 kbps interfaces on the EMPB/EuropaNET node in Budapest as
well. These two interfaces should also be upgraded to a single 256 kbps
interface very soon.
Internal Connectivity:
Internal connectivity of HUNGARNET is based partly on the public X.25
service of the Hungarian PTT and partly on the community's private IP
backbone network (HBONE). The kernel of the HBONE infrastructure is in
Budapest, where several important organizations are connected in
different ways (64-256 kbps leased lines, 1-2 Mbps microwave links, 10
Mbps optical Ethernet, 100 Mbps FDDI). Several cities (regional
centers) in the country are also connected to the network via 64 kbps
leased lines (Miskolc, Nyiregyhaza, Debrecen, Kecskemet, Szeged, Pecs,
Veszprem) and 2 Mbps microwave (Godollo). Now there are about 50
organizations directly connected to the backbone and about 50 others
using IP over X.25. The number of the registered, connected hosts is
about ten thousand. There is an ongoing development, new regional
centers (Kaposvar, Keszthely, Szombathely, Sopron, Gyor) and several
organizations in Budapest will be connected subsequently. Many users
do not have IP connectivity yet but are connected to the public X.25
network. There are several services (e.g. individual login, mail,
gopher, news) that are open for traditional XXX/X.25 access.
Contact Persons:
Miklos NAGY <mailto:h11nag@ella.hu> - head of the HUNGARNET/IIF
coordination office
Laszlo CSABA <mailto:h26csa@ella.hu> - HUNGARNET/IIF technical director
Balazs MARTOS <mailto:martos@sztaki.hu> - HBONE project manager
Nandor HORVATH <mailto:horvath@sztaki.hu> - Local Internet Registry,
.hu top level domain contact
IP address and domain administration: <mailto:hostmaster@sztaki.hu>
Network management: <mailto:net-admin@sztaki.hu>
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