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012.35 RENATER (Reseau National de Telecommunication pour l'Enseignement
et la Recherche)
by Christian Huitema <Christian.Huitema@sophia.inria.fr>
Following plans established in 1991 by the French ministries of
Education, Research, and Post & Telephone, a national network for
research and education in France is now being launched. Its
services will be open to any public or private institution for
research and education purposes.
Renater is being organized as a legal structure - Groupement
Renater - associating the various research and education
institutions. Its Chairman is Dr Pierre COUTURIER, who was
previously Associate Director of the Institut National des
Sciences de l'Univers.
Renater is contracting to France Telecom the provision and the
management of the national infrastructure for an initial period
of 4 years. In fact, France Telecom will provide two separate
infrastructures for Internet-IP and X.25. The IP backbone
network (RNI : Reseau National d'Interconnexion) will link
together the regional networks already in place or being
established in the different regions of France. The X25 service
is built as a virtual network supported by the new high speed
backbone of the Transpac network.
At the moment, a pilot service is being experimented between Ile
de France, Caen, and Toulouse based on 2 Mbps links. The
backbone will be developed in 1992, and will provide 2 Mbps
connectivity to regional networks before the end of the year.
From the beginning of 1993, the backbone will be extended to give
34 Mbps IP capacity to at least 4 regions (Ile de France,
Rhone-Alpes, Provence-Cote d'Azur, and Midi Pyrennees); a smooth
migration to ATM is part of the contract with France Telecom and
is currently scheduled to start in 1994.
An ISO-CLNS service is presently under investigation and could be
included as a service from 1993.
For more information, contact Christian Michau <michau@urec.fr>.