The Jordanian Universities Network

Yousef TormanExecutive Director

TNC 200615th May, 2006Catania, Italy

Connecting Jordanians Initiative (CJI), aims to coordinate and

accelerate critical developments and reforms intended to make

ICT an important facet in the lives of all Jordanians and to improve

their economic, social and cultural prospects in meaningful

ways (Ministry of ICT)

Background

National Broadband Network (NBN)

The NBN is a comprehensive Learning and Public Access Network that will connect:

Public Universities & MOHE (12 site) Public schools (3200 school) Community Colleges (20 site) Public access sites. (Currently 114 site)

Jordanian Universities Network

The Jordanian Universities Network was implemented as the first phase of the NBN with the following objectives:

To provide the Jordanian Research and Learning (R&L) institutions with a first class TCP/IP network which will facilitate communications, collaboration, experimentation, and learning.

To encourage students, faculty members, and researchers to use high speed networks to increase productivity and foster a culture of innovation.

To develop a Jordanian Research & Learning community.

To provide a platform for connecting the Jordan R&L community to the global R&L community.

Topology & Technology Built using dark fiber leased from National Power

Company on Indefeasible Right to Use (IRU) basis The core of the network consists of three Cisco 76xx

routers with full redundancy in terms of links, supervisor engines, power supplies...

Each edge side of the network consists of a Cisco 73xx router at each University / campus.

Each University enjoys 1 Gigabit link to the core

The Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) was selected at the core of the network for Flexibility, Scalability, Manageability, Security, Quality of services and Control

Tafilih Technical University

Germany Jordanian University

JUNet The Jordanian Univerisities Network

(JUNet) is a non profit limited liability company founded and funded by the public Universities to manage the network and applications that use this network.

JUNet is planned to be the coordinator and facilitator for all efforts aimed at developing and maintaining common services for the universities.

JUNet Vision

To contribute to the development of the Higher Education and Research in Jordan by providing this sector with quality Network and applications services

JUNet Current Services Internet Service EUMEDCONNECT Network Management Specialized Training Developing e-content for common

courses Conducting events and

conferences of common nature

Applications that currently use the network

Integrated Library Management System connecting 10 University libraries

EUMEDCONNECT Internet Periodicals and scientific journals

(common subscription) Distance learning Video conferencing

Future Plans

JUNet Future Plans are under approval

JUNet Future Plans are around the idea of satisfying the common needs of the Universities.

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