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- NORDUnet - The Nordic Backbone Network
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- NORDUnet
- c/o UNI-C
- Bygn. 305, DTH
- DK-2800 Lyngby
- DENMARK
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- _E_m_a_i_l: Peter.Villemoes@uni-c.dk
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- _P_h_o_n_e: +45 45 938355
- FAX: +45 45 930220
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- NORDUnet is a collaboration between the national research
- networks in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
- Its purpose is to provide the national research and educa-
- tion communities with an efficient networking service which
- ensures coherence of the national R & D networks and con-
- nects these to similar networks in the rest of Europe and
- the world.
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- NORDUnet is organized as a consortium agreement between the
- national networks DENet, FUNET, SUNET, SURIS and UNINETT.
- The administration is an integral part of UNI-C in Denmark.
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- NORDUnet has contracted its work mainly to the national
- organizations. The network operations center has been con-
- tracted to KTH/SUNET. It is their responsibility to monitor
- the service, configure the Cisco routers (IP) as well as
- coordinate operational issues. The X.25 operations have
- been contracted to UNINETT and DECNET operations to UNI-C.
- Overall technical coordination has been contracted to
- VTKK/FUNET.
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- NORDUnet has five points of presence, one in each of the
- Nordic countries.
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
- of this guide.
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- September 4, 1992 NNSC Section 5.19, Page 1
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- UNI-C
- Building 305 DTH
- DK-2800 Lyngby
- DENMARK
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- FUNET/VTKK
- Tietotie 6
- Espoo
- Finland
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- SURIS
- University of Iceland
- Dunhaga 5 IS-107 Reykjavik
- Iceland
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- SINTEF/DELAB
- N-7034
- Trondheim
- Norway
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- KTH/SUNET
- S-100 44
- Stockholm
- Sweden
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- NORDUnet provides IP, DECNET, X.25 and CLNS layer 3 ser-
- vices, in this order of volume. NORDUnet leases bandwidth in
- form raw lines and adds value by providing the network layer
- protocols in a coordinated fashion with equipment operated
- through various contracts. The national networks which are
- the NORDUnet customers see it as a "NORDUnet plug" which
- provides different service "pins".
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- NJE traffic is transported over TCP/IP. The CLNS (including
- DECNET Phase V) pilot traffic is carried by the same Cisco's
- as the production traffic. The external connections are
- mainly based on Cisco routers. NORDUnet runs IP and CLNS
- protocols to the US and IP, CLNS and DECNET IV to Europe.
- X.25 connectivity to Europe is provided via a direct connec-
- tion to the IXI network.
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- There are app. 60.000 IP hosts, 5000 DECnet hosts, and 100
- EARN hosts in the Nordic national networks that are inter-
- connected by NORDUnet. NORDUnet connects the national
- Nordic networks to Internet, Ebone, EASInet, EARN/BITNET,
- EUnet, HEPnet, SPAN and IXI.
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- September 4, 1992 NNSC Section 5.19, Page 2
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- NORDUnet can only be used for academic and research traffic.
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