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- 012.42 Italy
- by Stefano Trumpy <trumpy%icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it@uicvm.uic.edu>
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- Organization. GARR is the Harmonization Group for Research Networks operating
- under the Ministry of the University, Scientific and Technological Research
- (MURST). GARR is also the name of the Italian Research Network which is
- currently conducted by the founder organizations: three public research
- nationwide Institutions i.e. CNR (National Council for Research),ENEA (National
- Energy Institute ), INFN (High Energy Physics Institute)and by four consortia
- offering computing resources to Italian universities, i.e CINECA,CILEA,CSATA
- and NIC. The aim of GARR is to interconnect the Italian research and academic
- networks and to coordinate intercountry connections.
-
- Architecture. The backbone of the network provides four TDM channels over
- 2 Mbps lines, carrying IP, DECnet, SNA and X.25 trafic; the latter protocol is
- carrying the trafic destinated to the European backbone IXI activated by the
- EUREKA-COSINE project.
-
- Addressing. All computers on GARR makes use of the Internet - style domain
- addresses. Top-level domain is IT for Italy. Information on Italian domains is
- available on-line at the RIPE NIC ; use the command: whois -h nic.eu.net
- 'domain name'. Queries about mailing to people in Italy could be sent to
- mail-ita@info.garr.it.
-
- Future plans. The backbone is built up by the original seven primary sites
- located in Milano (CILEA), Bologna (CINECA and CNAF-INFN), Pisa(CNUCE-CNR),
- Roma(ENEA and NIC-INFN) and Bari (CSATA). Recently University of Napoli joined
- the backbone. The MURST also funded a project to connect all the universities
- in Italy ; the major ones will be extensions of the backbone,while the others
- will be attached with 64kbps lines to the primary sites. GARR will continue to
- maintain connections to the major research networks, including
- RIPE/EASInet/Internet, BITNET/EARN, EUnet, HEPnet and other networks.
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- CNUCE - Istituto del CNR in Pisa - Italy
-