GÉANT News
01.01.2010
Summary of the Estonian academic network in 2009
Services for educational, research and cultural institutions
- Backbone and servers
- 11.06.2009 – Paide-Viljandi backbone of 1 Gbps was launched
- The map of Estonian academic network in June 2009
- Hardware was updated – more powerful servers were acquired for several services
- 274 institutions with permanent connectivity
- 605 webpages for 560 institutions in nw.eenet.ee server
- 104 webpages for learning materials in koolielu.edu.ee server (hosted by 57 different schools)
- 6229 e-mail accounts in EENet server
- 222 institutions use HAVIKE – the Virtual Environment for Education
- 883 lists for 327 different institutions in EENet server
- 4 institutions have joined eduroam
Most important cooperation projects in 2009
- 1.04.09 – GN3 project was launced to continue managing the trans-european high-speed backbonenetwork GEANT
- BalticGrid II project continued
- The 8th computer drawing competition “Universe- yours to discover” took place in cooperation with Tartu Observatory. 5225 pictures from 4504 different authors were submitted. Altogether, 178 Estonian schools from participated in the competition.
- Popular wildlife webcamera project continued in 2009
Domain name registration
- By 01.01.2010 74133 domain names were registered in the .ee zone, 11891 were .pri.ee, 321 .fie.ee, 93 .org.ee and 64 .com.ee names
