From: rouverol@imag.fr (Serge Rouveyrol)
Subject: Re: France Telecom (Was :Re: cout de fnet)
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:56:05 GMT

In article <ofLRqRi00iV1A7l2BN@andrew.cmu.edu> Moises Carrasco-Forcada <mc7s+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Non, RENATER c'etait le projet pilote du RNIS fait par France Telecom en
>Bretagne, il a plus de six ans. 
>A rappeler que le service de telephonie restera en monopole mais que
>tous les autres services sont ou seront ouverts a la concurrence, comme
>c'est deja le cas pour la telephonie mobile.
>
>Moises

pour RENATER : ftp urec.urec.fr , directory /pub/renater




									
Paris, 8th April 1992





RENATER

Reseau National de Telecommunication 
pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche








The national network for research and education in France is being 
launched.

In the early 1991, the Minister of Education, the Minister of 
Research, Technology and Space and the Minister of Posts and 
Telecommunications commited to cooperate for the establishment of 
national network, Renater.


They have given to Renater the following missions :

	- to develop high speed communications services for the 
benefice of the Science and Education community,

	- to promote the usage of high speed networking in the 
community,

	- to establish a powerful interconnection with the research 
and education networks of the other countries.


On this basis, Renater is being organised as a legal structure - 
Groupement Renater - associating the various research and 
education institutions involved in the program and will act as the 
legal operational unit in charge of the service.


The Groupement Renater has the mandate :

	- to contract the provision and the management of the 
national infrastructure,

	- to organize network services between the national 
community, the first of them being a unified mail service,

	- to develop the international connectivity of Renater in 
the context of the global inter-net,

	
Dr Pierre COUTURIER - who was previously Associate Director of the 
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers - has been appointed 
as the Chairman of Renater.


Renater is contracting to France Telecom the provision and the 
management of the national infrastructure for an initial period of 
4 years..

Currently, this infrastructure is being organized in 2 separate 
parts :

	- the IP-DoD service providing up to 34 Mbits access points,

	- the X25 service providing up to 2 Mbits.


The IP service is organised on the model of a 2 levels 
architecture :

	- regional networks already in place or being established in 
the different regions of France,

	- a backbone network (RNI : Reseau National 
d'Interconnexion) linking together these regional networks.


The X25 service is built as a virtual network in the framework of 
the new high speed backbone of the Transpac network.

For both services, France Telecom has contracted to provide a 
layer 3 service.

An ISO-CLNS service is presently under investigation and could be 
included as a service from 1993.

A smooth migration to ATM is part of the contract with France 
Telecom and is currently scheduled to start in 1994.

The current planning has the objective to develop the backbone in 
the course of 1992 in order to have a national coverage before the 
end of the year and to provide 2M connectivity to all the regional 
networks. From the beginning of 93,  the backbone will be extended 
to give 34M capacity to at least 4 regions  (Ile de France, Rhone-
Alpes, Provence-Cote d'Azur and Midi Pyrennees).

At the moment, a pilot service is being experimented between Ile 
de France, Caen and Toulouse based on 2M links.  

The Groupement Renater assumes the follow-up of the service 
(performance, quality of service, evolutions) through a management 
team.

It is also in charge of the security of network services and has 
the mandate to be the national representative in this matter.

The mail service of Renater is currently under investigation with 
the objective of  federating the current NJE, Smtp and X400 
services and gateways into a 'one stop shopping' mail service.
 
Various pilot projects are being considered either in the field of 
applications using high speed networks or in the field of network 
technology.

Renater services are open to any public or private institution for 
the research and education purpose subject to an agreement of the 
Groupement Renater.

 
Christian MICHAU



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