Syzefxis or "National Public Administration Network", is a project of the Greek Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization, aiming at the evolvement of the voice, video and data infrastructure of the Public Sector in Greece

Greece

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. The project was about installing and maintaining a stable and fast computer network

Computer network

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 based on the IP Protocol for the public sector organizations, ministries, municipalities, hospitals, social security foundations, schools and many other, counting in total about two thousand nodes.

The network provides:

• voice and data connectivity for the 2,000 nodes,
• broadband internet services and E-mail
  E-mail
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  ,
• a Website
  Website
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   for each node supporting value added services, like directory services etc.,
• Public key infrastructure
  Public key infrastructure
  Public Key Infrastructure is a set of hardware, software, people, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates. In cryptography, a PKI is an arrangement that binds public keys with respective user identities by means of a certificate...
  
   for the users,
• synchronous and asynchronous education,
• teleconferencing
  Teleconference
  A teleconference or teleseminar is the live exchange and mass articulation of information among several persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system...
  
   services,
• free telephony based on VoIP technology between all nodes.

The network's architecture is based on the hub-and-spoke design.
The network was divided in six administrative areas, called "islets". These are:

• Islet 1, Athens
  Athens
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   area
• Islet 2, covering the rest of Attica
  Attica
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   outside Athens
• Islet 3, Thessaloniki
  Thessaloniki
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• Islet 4, Crete
  Crete
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• Islet 5, Continental Greece, Thessaly
  Thessaly
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  , Macedonia
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  , Thrace
  Thrace
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   and Northern Aegean Islands
  Aegean Islands
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• Islet 6, Epirus
  Epirus (periphery)
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  , Peloponnese
  Peloponnese
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   and the Ionian Islands
  Ionian Islands
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The implementation of the project was divided in nine subprojects, seven of which are telecommunication projects. The other two are
more information technology-oriented. The subprojects are:

• Subproject 1, the installation and interconnection of islet 1 users,
• Subproject 2, the installation and interconnection of islet 2 users,
• Subproject 3, the installation and interconnection of islet 3 users,
• Subproject 4, the installation and interconnection of islet 4 users,
• Subproject 5, the installation and interconnection of islet 5 users,
• Subproject 6, the installation and interconnection of islet 6 users,
• Subproject 7, the installation and configuration of the backbone network,
• Subproject 8, the training management,
• Subproject 9, the public key infrastructure.

External links

• Syzefxis Project
• Annual Progress Reports (in Greek)