Goran Škvarč Special Projects Manager

1. Goran Škvarč Special Projects Manager 21.02.2008.

2. CARNet • Croatian Academic and Research Network; • Started as a project in 1991; • Officially founded by the Government in 1995. • Headquarters at Zagreb; • Regional centers in six cities of Croatia - Zagreb, Rijeka, Osijek, Split; Pula and Dubrovnik; • Over 80 employees. • Annual budget – 100 mil. kunas (14 mil. euros)

3. Users • From the beginning of CARNet: • institutions from the systems of science and higher education: • universities and their respective faculties; • other institutions of higher education, and • scientific and research institutes. • Public/government Institutes; • Student housing sites; • Ministry of Science, Education and Sports; • Ministry’s Agencies; • Staff and students of the above mentioned institutions. • Since 2006.: • Primary and Secondary Schools; • Pupil’s housing sites; • Pupils.

4. Users • 245 academic institutions @ 380 locations; • 1346 educational institutions @ 2606 locations; • Connections from 2Mbps - 10 Gbps; • All costs covered by CARNet.

5. Connectivity • GEANT 2 - EU project, 4 years, 10 GBit/s

6. Backbone

7. Basic Services: • AAI@edu.hr - digital authentication and authorization infrastructure; • Internet - access to Internet; • E-mail; • CMU/MobileCARNet/XCARNet/MetroCARNet - network access; • Edupoint - CARNet Educational Department; • Helpdesk - user’s support; • Network services - ftp, news, irc, ntp…; • DNS - national top .hr domain administration; • www.hr - Croatia’s Homepage and Catalogue; • Center for Online Databases; • Cisco Academy - Cisco Academy of Network Technologies; • CERT & Abuse - computer security; • ELA - E-learning academy; • CUC - CARNet Users Conference; • Multimedia - room and desktop videoconferencing systems, streaming, MoD;

8. AAI@EduHr • AAI@EduHr - virtual electronic identity; • Unique for every CARNet user; • Precondition for almost all services; • 561 713 electronic identities in AAI@EduHr system at the end of January 2008.

9. HUSO – Hosting Service for Primary and Secondary Schools • For Schools: • LDAP; • DNS; • Web space (school and presonal web pages); • CMS - Content Management System; • National School Portal (http://www.skole.hr); • National Portal for Distance Learning “Nikola Tesla”; • E-library (http://e-knjiznica.carnet.hr); • Content filtering. • For individuals: • Electronic identity for everybody; • iPernica - web interface enabling: • e-mail; • Address book • Calendar • Document handling.

10. HUSO Users

11. CMS • Content Management System: • Dynamic system tor management and creation of school websites on previously defined look and standars using web interface; • Tool to utilize web services; • 488 schools within CMS.

12. Schools within CMS

13. National School Portal

14. Educational content • Online courses: • Available through LMS (Learning Management System); • Math, Physics, Biology and Chemistry for Secondary Schools; • ECDL – 7 modules; • Various courses.

15. Math, Physics, Biology and Chemistry for Secondary Schools

16. e-knjiznica.carnet.hr

17. Časopis VIDI

18. e-knjiznica.carnet.hr/e-kids

19. E-knjige i časopisi

20. Center for Online Databases

21. Journals@Ovid Seamless Searching and Linking Discovery Search Seamless Linking Full Text

22. Microsoft Encarta

23. Videoconferencing and MOD • Room and Desktop VC Systems; • Equipment: • Polycom VSX 3000 (150) • PC sistem Polycom PVX (1500) • Adobe Connect in test phase; • 32 TCRs

24. E-Islands