AMRES experience with implementing the “campus best practices” model

This paper summarizes the experience and results that are achieved in the GEANT “Campus Best Practices” (GN3 NA3/T4) task from the point of view of National Research and Education Network of Serbia, i.e. AMRES. Four NRENs are contributing: UNINETT (Norway), CSC/Funet (Finland), CESNET (the Czech Republic) and AMRES (Serbia). Of these, Serbia is the only one which is faced with solving the problem of poor technological development, the so-called the digital divide problem. NRENs, faced with the digital divide problem, give undivided attention and overall budget for improvement of backbone infrastructure and services, or external NREN connections. Insufficient attention has been focused on understanding and mitigating the problems of discontinuity in the quality of infrastructure, services and expertise of staff, which generally exists between the NREN backbone and campus network. The GEANT “Campus Best Practices” task examines working model as one possible solution of the problem. The work is aimed at increasing cooperation between NREN´s member institutions in order to arrive at common technical solutions and recommendations for campuses. A description of experiences recently gained at AMRES, during the implementation of the adopted model, could be beneficial to NRENs operating in similar conditions as AMRES.