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About ULAKNET (Network Technologies Department)
National Research and Education Network of Turkey (ULAKNET), provides network connectivity of universities and research institutes with similar institutions in Turkey and abroad. In a world where education and research activities are carried out in a global scale, the need for an effective national research and education network infrastructure with international connectivity has become inevitable . For ULAKBIM to provide services in order to be able to fulfill its primary duties, there is need for a high-speed reliable backbone and external connections. The main goal of ULAKBIM is to provide network services always one step ahead of the expectations of its users, made up of 90,000 academic personnel and more than 2 million university students. ULAKNET is trying to reach to all end users with the highest possible speeds within the available technology and has a terrestrial connection to the European Academic Network GEANT in order to integrate with the global research and education networks.Fields of Activity
• Undertaking the establishment and operation of research and education network infrastructure in Turkey (ULAKNET). ULAKNET provides Internet and network connections of universities, military and police academies, libraries, research and development organizations and some governmental organizations.
• The regular operation of ULAKNET, the continuity of services provided over ULAKNET and opening up of new services, network planning and network security studies are carried out.
• To take into consideration the security needs of the ULAKNET backbone and its end nodes, a Computer Emergency Response Team (Ulak-CSIRT), forming a cooperation among ULAKNET’s users to defend against and respond to cyber attacks.
• Wide spreading IPv6 applications over the ULAKNET backbone and to establish its connectivity with the rest of the IPv6 backbone in the world.
• Leading and coordinating the activities of national research communities in high performance computing towards a Turkish Grid, representing the TR-Grid National Initiative in regional and global grid projects, deploying the Turkish National Grid e-infrastructure.
• eduroam which stands for Education Roaming, is a RADIUS-based infrastructure that uses 802.1X security technology to allow for inter-institutional roaming.
• To carry out information gathering and sorting studies that will contribute to the information production of universities and research institutes, and cataloging and organization of this information, to develop software using only the open source codes in order to realize the information and documentation delivery services provided by Cahit Arf Information Center in the electronic medium.
• Participation national and global network infrastructure and grid projects
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