Yuri KORZH
Global Ukraine CEO
President of Ukraine Online Computer Information Agency
yvk@gu.net
Yuri DEMCHENKO
Senior Adviser, Department of Information System, Global Ukraine
Associate Professor, NTUU ?Kiev Polytechnic Institute?
demch@gu.net
Internet in Ukraine today
Growth of Hosts number in Ukraine
Hostcount for Ukraine (Source: RIPE Database)
Registered Second Level Domains in .UA zone
Major Ukrainian ISPs and their external links
Ukrainian External Connectivity of major Ukrainian ISPs
General view of regional connectivity in Ukraine
Traffic Analysis and External Links characteristics
Academic and Research Network Development in Ukraine
Forming Professional Internet community in Ukraine
Internet Information Resources development
Development of Internet Market in UkraineMain Trends and Projects From Electronic Communications to Electronic Commerce
Internet in Ukraine today (http://park.kiev.ua/inet/) | |
Number of hosts in .UA Domain connected to the
Internet
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> 20,000
> 100,0000 |
Number of SLDs (.com.ua, .net.ua, gov.ua, org.ua
and geographical SLDs)
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1641 |
Number of Autonomous Systems |
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Total external connectivity
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Internet market in Ukraine (http://uanet.gu.net/) | |
Total Number of ISPs
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Number of Local IP Registries |
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Growth
of Hosts number in Ukraine for last 17 months
(Source: RIPE Database)
Hostcount
for Ukraine (Source: RIPE Database)
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Period | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | |
REAL |
6910
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7146
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7278
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8895
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10280
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10275
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11455
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11675
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11195
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13887
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13210
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13996
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15417
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16075
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16874
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17624
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17718
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19391
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CHANGE |
333
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236
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132
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1617
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1385
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-5
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1180
|
220
|
-480
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2692
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-677
|
786
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1421
|
658
|
799
|
750
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94
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1673
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CHANGE, % |
4,8%
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3,3%
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1,8%
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18,2%
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13,5%
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0,0%
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10,3%
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1,9%
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-4,3%
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19,4%
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-5,1%
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5,6%
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9,2%
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4,1%
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4,7%
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4,3%
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0,5%
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8,6%
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Registered
Second Level Domains
(and number of 3rd
level domains in .UA zone) (http://park.kiev.ua/inet/)
Generic SLD |
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com (156) | cherkassy (3) | dp (107) | km (5) | nikolaev (32) | ternopil (6) |
gov (24) | chernigov (30) | if (14) | kr (1) | od (9) | uzhgorod (9) |
org (6) | chernovtsy (2) | ivano-frankivsk (6) | ks (2) | odessa (73) | vinnica (8) |
net (25) | cn (9) | kh (9) | kv (0) | pl (0) | zaporizhzhe (18) |
crimea (36) | kharkov (133) | lg (30) | poltava (30) | zhitomir (3) | |
cv (6) | kherson (14) | lugansk (20) | rovno (3) | zp (19) | |
dn (88) | khmelnitskiy (5) | lutsk (13) | sebastopol (9) | zt (1) | |
dnepropetrovsk (107) | kiev (384) | lviv (30) | sumy (12) | ||
donetsk (83) | kirovograd (2) | mk (34) | te (5) |
Major Ukrainian ISPs and their external links
Internet Service Provider | Connectivity | Connectivity provider | Internal Links in Ukraine |
JV Global Ukraine
http://www.gu.net
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1 Mbps (Satellite) | Digex Ltd., USA | > 30 local ISPs |
2 Mbps | MCI, USA
(via UkrTelecom) |
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1 Mbps | TeleGlobe
(via JV InfoCom) |
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JV InfoCom
http://www.ukrpack.net
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2 Mbps (Satellite) | TeleGlobe, Canada | UkrPack X.25/Frame Relay Network |
> 20 local ISPs | |||
Lucky Net Ltd.
http://www.lucky.net
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2 Mbps (Satellite) | Deutsche Telekom | > 20 local ISPs |
512 Kbps (Satellite) | Demos Ltd. | LuckyNet Israel (Israel) | |
256 Kbps | JV InfoCom | ||
Relcom-Ukraine
http://www.relc.com
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512 Kbps | JV InfoCom | > 15 local ISPs |
64 Kbps | UkrTelecom | ||
UkrTelecom
http://www.ukrtel.net
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2 Mbps | UUNET, London | >10 local ISPs |
2 Mbps | MCI, USA |
Three other external links are operated by regional commercial and non-profit ISPs
Telematika, Odessa Polytechnic University - 256 Kbps to MCI, USA (Satellite)
UARNET, ICMP, Lviv ? 128/256 Kbps to NASK/NORDUNET
Traffic Analysis and External Links characteristics
Traffic analysis through main external links shows highly asymmetrical load of incoming and outgoing channels. Ratio between incoming and outgoing traffic can reach 3-4 times during the day.
Typical traffic statistics for Global Ukraine links is shown on screen shot (http://noc.gu.net/mrtg/).
Academic and Research Network Development in Ukraine
Building of Academic and Research Network in Ukraine meets a number of problems
Universities with full Internet connectivity - regional centers of building A&R Network:
Effective schemes of cooperation and involvement of commercial companies in A&R Network building should be found. |
Forming Professional Internet community in Ukraine
After the period of intensive implementation of new Internet technologies Ukrainian professional community became ready to participate in activity of correspondent international professional groups and technical committees:
Projects undertaken by Ukrainian specialists and companies
Ukrainian Internet community is on the way to founding independent
ISP Association
whose goals will be
Internet Information Resources development
Importance of development of useful and significant information resources
and business implementation of new IT technologies now widely recognized
among major ISPs and IT Companies in Ukraine.
Creating public information resources is the first intermediate step for forming Information Society consumer community that will become target for forthcoming EC. |
Recent the most important events in formation and development of Information resources and directory services in Ukraine are the following
1996 -- Educational WWW Server on Internet and Networking Information Technologies (Kiev Polytechnic Institute; http://cad.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/)
1997 -- Ukraine Internet Service Providers directory (Global Ukraine; http://uanet.gu.net/)
1997 ? Information Technologies Search Server (ElVisti Information Center; http://it-s.visti.net/)
December 1997 -- Search System in Ukrainian Net Resources (ElVisti Information Center; http://el.visti.net/)
January 1998 -- UAvista WWW Search system (Global Ukraine; http://www3.gu.net/dig.html)
February 1998 -- Ukrainian Internet Pavilion - WWW Server on Ukrainian Historical and Cultural Heritage (Kiev Polytechnic Institute, International Renaissance Foundation, Global Ukraine; http://park.kiev.ua/)
March 1998 ? Ukrainian WWW resources index system, UARNet, Lviv (http://search.uar.net)
April 1998 ? Ukrainian Rating System Ping (http://www.topping.od.ua/)
Development of public information Resources is becoming an area of cooperation between commercial ISP, charitable Foundation and Universities. |
Project Ukrainian Internet Pavilion is granted by International Renaissance Foundation, supported by Global Ukraine and performed by Kiev Polytechnic Institute by involving students in creation of WWW information resources through implementing Cooperative and Contributive Learning model in Professional Education in Internet and IT.
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http://el.visti.net/
Ukrainian Internet Resources Search System and Catalog (ElVisti Information Center) |
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Development of Internet Market in Ukraine
Cooperative projects and market policy coordination between leading ISP and Computer companies
Leading ISPs look for effective technology for end user access to the Internet and extending provided Internet based services |
From
Electronic Communications to Electronic Commerce
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Main players/participating Companies
Founding Electronic Commerce Association is under discussion.
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First Internet shop
(http://www.int-commerce.com/)
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This the poster have been presented at Poster Session at INET'98, Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland, July 20-24, 1998.