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From: Guntis Barzdins <guntis@mii.lu.lv> To: Steven Huter <sghuter@psg.com> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:46:24 -0200 (GMT) Dear Steven, > We met briefly at the INET workshops in Honolulu in June. I work with Randy > Bush to maintain a National Science Foundation sponsored database on > international networking developments and connectivity providers in > numerous countries around the world. I write to you for an update on the > latest developments in Latvia, and more specifically your institution. Do > you have any formal papers or reports on the status of LV networking that > you could make publicly available? There is a LATNET home page on our WWW server which has some general information about our network (we try to keep it up to date, but something might be missing): http://www.latnet.lv/LATNET/ I myself am technical director of LATNET. Briefly, the networking situation in Latvia is following: There are three relatively independent Internet providers in Latvia: LATNET (my network), LvNet Teleport, and Versia. LATNET is primarilly academic network, although it accepts also other users which are ready to pay. LvNet Teleport and Versia are purely commecial providers rooted in Russian Relcom and serving primarilly Russian population of Latvia. All three network are relatively friendly to each other. By size LATNET is by far the bigest network - it has 64k link via Tallinn to Helsinki (FUNET) and 128k link to Stockholm KTH (Nordunet). There is implemented load sharing between the two links, so that aggreagate capicity is 192k (and it is filled by 100% during daytime). 5 big universities, about 10 research institutions, 3 libraries and many more nonprofit organizations are conected to LATNET. Inside LATNET (organizations connected to the world via LATNET) new service providers are emerging, like LANET (another Latvian Academic Network :-), Bank Communications Center, etc. LATNET receives almost no local support for supporting academic users - they are sponsored a little from commercial users and greatly by the Nordic Council of Ministers and PHARE, who are paying for international lines and donating equipment (unfortunately no one wants to pay to people making it all running, for small daily expences, local lines and dial-up pools - this is what is sponsored from the commercial users.) LvNet Teleport and Versia both have 28.8k SLIP lines One has line to Moscow, another - to Sant.Petersburg. > Please include any other information you have about the general state of > networking in LV, contacts for any public access connectivity providers you > know of, and anything else you'd like to add. public Internet providers are LATNET, LvNet Teleport, Versia. To find more info, you should look at www.latnet.lv, www.lvnet.lv and www.versia.lv respectively. > Last of all, could you please complete the following for the database of > contacts: > > Date: August 18, 1995 > Organization: LATNET > Address: Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia Rainis blvd. 29 Riga LV-1459 > Country: Latvia > Code: LV > Contact Person: Guntis Barzdins > Voice: +371 9 206943 or +371 2 212427 > Fax: +371 7 820153 > E-mail: guntis@mii.lu.lv > Host/Node Name: > URLs: http://www.latnet.lv/LATNET > Notes: > Best regards, -- Guntis Barzdins _________________________________________________________________________ Institute of Math. and Comp.Sc. Internet: guntis@mii.lu.lv University of Latvia phone: +371-2-212427 Rainis blvd. 29, Riga LV1459, Latvia fax: +371-7-820153 GSM: +371-9-206943
