1. National supply
In the national part of the project the aim was to deploy a set of basic hardware and software components required by the partner countries, such as routers, modems, workstations, and network management software. Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia benefitted from the national supply element of the project. The six other countries had already received funding for this purpose under the PHARE 1991 project. The equipment was tendered according to EC rules.
2. The international network service provision
The second element of the project was to extend and/or upgrade connectivity to the rest of the European research Internet. The following connection(s) had been realised as of December 1996:
| Albania | Tirana-Amsterdam | 64kb/s | satellite | planned** |
| Bulgaria | Sofia-Amsterdam | 2x 64kb/s | terrestrial | planned** |
| Czech Rep. | Prague-Amsterdam | 512kb/s | terrestrial | operational |
| Czech Rep. | Prague-Banska Bystrica | 128kb/s* | terrestrial | operational |
| Estonia | Tallin-Helsinki | 256kb/s* | terrestrial | operational |
| Estonia | Tallin-Riga | 64kb/s* | terrestrial | operational |
| Hungary | Budapest-Amsterdam | 2Mb/s | terrestrial | operational |
| Latvia | Riga-Tallin | 64kb/s* | terrestrial | operational |
| Latvia | Riga-Stockholm | 384kb/s | terrestrial | operational |
| Lithuania | Kaunas-Stockholm | 512kb/s | satellite | operational |
| Poland | Warsaw-Vienna | 256kb/s* | terrestrial | operational |
| Poland | Warsaw-Stockholm | 2Mb/s* | satellite | operational |
| Romania | Bucharest-Amsterda | 64kb/s | satellite | terminated *** |
| Romania | Bucharest-Budapest | 64kb/s | terrestrial | operational |
| Romania | Bucharest-Vienna | 64kb/s* | satellite | operational |
| Slovakia | Prague-Banska Bystrica | 128kb/s* | terrestrial | operational |
| Slovenia | Ljubljana-Amsterdam | 2Mb/s | terrestrial | operational |
(Circuits marked with (*) were established in a separate project, but funded or upgraded from the PHARE 94 budget.)
(Circuits marked with (**) will still be implemented; DANTE's original management contract has been extended beyong its original two year duration for this purpose.)
(The circuit marked with (***) was replaced in June 1996 with a 256 kb/s satellite circuit Bucharest - Stockholm which is funded independently of PHARE.)
PHARE 1994 R&D Networking has substantially improved the national and international networking facilities for researchers in the CEE region and facilitated integration between the research networking communities in western and central and eastern Europe.
An indication of the increased use of international networking in the PHARE countries is given in Fig.1 showing the numbers of registrations in the RIPE database of network addresses. Note that these figures include all registered addresses in each country and not just those using PHARE-funded links.)
