• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.403-413
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• 2007

KREN(Korean Education Network), supported by government fur 20 years, had been operated and connected to many educational institutions from elementary schools to universities. From 2001, This network has been operated by a commercial network consignment organization and started to offer superb infrastructures to access various educational information conveniently. This network contributes development of Korean Information technology and promotes solidarity among educational institutions as well. Despite this achievement, KREN's effectiveness is not well recognized. Therefore, performance analysis study was carried out on KREN's achievement to verify its effectiveness, this study was to justify government's continuous support and also to find effective. This study was to justify government's continuous support and also to find effective ways of operations and maintenance fur the next step of KREN. Over 100 organizations were surveyed for performance analysis and we analyzed its results and anticipated effectiveness in this study. Cost, contribution, quality and performance were examined fur satisfaction analysis and each institution's number of students, network experiences were used as independent variables fer regression analysis to figure out effectiveness of the network. This study's result provides much information for further research which will help in the development of educational policies and maximizing KREN's effectiveness.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.24-33
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• 1992

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.119-127
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• 2005

Each university in Korea has connected its campus network to outer network with a variety methods since every year KREN adopted an open bid in selecting a network service company. In particular many universities connected two or more outer networks have faced more complex decision problems about their network operations due to the intricacy of the networks. So, those university needs the system which helps the managers to select the optimum operating method for their campus networks. In this paper, campus network traffic efficiency based on utilization was analyzed using the manager's answers to the questions for traffic management. And, by the result of analysis, the link strategy to outer networks was suggested for the universities running simultaneously two outer networks.