Internet Service Provider

OGST

The Regional Network Operation Center (RNOC - Regional Network Operation Center) was established in the fall of 1993 on the basis of the Global Network Technologies Department (GIST) of South Ural State University with the support of G. P. Vyatkin, then Chairman of the Presidium of Chelyabinsk Scientific Center of Ural Branch of RAS and Rector (now President) of SUSU, as well as the Administration of Information Technology of Chelyabinsk Region.

RNOC provides state budgetary institutions working in the field of science, education, culture and healthcare with access to federal scientific and educational networks and the Internet. The RNOC also ensures the functioning of the SUSU information-computer network and its connectivity with the Internet.

Universities participating in the network in 2010:

South Ural State University (SUSU),
Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University,
Chelyabinsk State Agro-Engineering Academy,
Ural Socio-Economic Institute,
Ural State University of Physical Culture
(total number of students - about 100,000); and
Chelyabinsk Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The regional network offers a wide range of network services, including:

e-mail (SMTP/sendmail, PO3/IMAP4 and via web interface),
Number of user mailboxes - more than 5000;
hosting on two sites (http://susu.ru/ and http://www.susu.ac.ru/),
hosting more than 300 websites of faculties, departments, professors and students;
server for WSUS software updates from Microsoft;
servers for media broadcasting and videoconferencing (UMedia and Windows Media);
voice media gateways,
VLANs and VPNs,
peering with local ISPs.