Akademska mreža Republike Srbije

What Akademska mreža Republike Srbije does

Akademska mreža Republike Srbije (AMRES) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Serbia, established in 2010 as a public information-communication institution by the Government of Serbia and beginning operations in 2011. It is headquartered in Belgrade and operates as a state-funded entity, providing free connectivity and digital services to Serbia's academic and research community. The organization connects more than 300 institutions across 50 Serbian cities and serves a base of more than 150,000 end users, spanning universities, research institutes, libraries, and other public-sector R&E bodies.

The core of AMRES is a national optical fiber backbone extending more than 3,800 km, providing 1Gb and 10Gb capacity to member institutions. AMRES operates identity, security, and collaboration services including iAMRES (identity federation, eduGAIN member), eduroam (Serbian federation), DDoS protection, digital certificate services, and a recently piloted web-conferencing platform. The network is interconnected with the pan-European GÉANT backbone, placing Serbia's R&E users inside the global federation of national research networks.

AMRES's business model is non-commercial: services are provided free of charge to member institutions, and the institution is funded via the state budget of Serbia, supplemented by participation in European Union and cross-border R&E funding programs (e.g., SEELIGHT, GÉANT-related projects). There are no disclosed pricing tiers, pay-for-use products, or private-sector revenue streams; the institution's growth in scale is therefore tightly linked to public-sector funding decisions and EU project participation rather than commercial sales cycles.

Name

Akademska mreža Republike Srbije

Legal name

Akademska mreža Republike Srbije - AMRES

Website

https://amres.ac.rs

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Akademska mreža Republike Srbije (AMRES) is Serbia's state-funded National Research and Education Network, operating a 3,800+ km fiber backbone that connects 300+ academic and research institutions and 150,000+ end users across 50 cities. It provides connectivity, identity federation, security, and collaboration services free of charge, with interconnection into the European GÉANT network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

National Research and Education Network Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Other Computer Related Services (541519)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Computer Communications Equipment (3576)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHDAIAFAG

Network Backbone & Core IP Transport (Long-Haul/Metro IP)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Telecommunications & Network Services/Data & IP Network Services (MPLS, SD-WAN, Ethernet)

SECONDARYHDAIAGAE

Edge-Integrated Private Connectivity (MEC + Private 5G/Wi‑Fi)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Telecommunications & Network Services/Private Networks & Managed Connectivity (Enterprise LTE/5G, Wi-Fi)

SECONDARYHDAFAFAC

VPN Gateways & Concentrators (IPsec/SSL)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Networking Equipment & Components/Network Security Appliances (Firewall/VPN/IDS)

Keywords

• Research and education network
• Academic network services
• National research networking
• Identity federation services
• Eduroam wireless roaming

Headquarters

HQ city

Belgrade

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: AMRES is a public information-communication institution established by the Government of the Republic of Serbia. The organization is funded through government budgets for maintenance, organization, functioning, construction, and development. All AMRES services are provided free of charge to end users through their institutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

AMRES operates Serbia's national research and education network (NREN), providing high-speed internet connectivity, collaboration services, and digital identity infrastructure for the country's academic and research community. Its core offering is an optical fiber network spanning 50 cities with 1Gb and 10Gb backbone capacities, connecting more than 300 scientific-research and educational institutions to the European GÉANT network and providing supplementary services including eduroam wireless roaming, VPN remote access, identity federation, CSIRT security, digital certificates, library consortium access, and e-learning.

Product overview

AMRES operates a national research and education network (NREN) for Serbia, offering a platform of infrastructure connectivity, security, collaboration, and research-enablement services. The core offering is the AMRES Network Connectivity Service — a nationwide fiber-optic network connecting over 300 scientific-research and educational institutions in 50 cities to the GÉANT European network and the global Internet. This core connectivity is supplemented by security services (AMRES CSIRT incident response, TCS digital certificates via DigiCert/GÉANT, web-proxy with IronPort filtering, traffic filtering); collaboration services (eduroam wireless roaming across Serbia and the world, AMRES VPN remote access, video-conferencing rooms in Novi Sad and Niš, web-conferencing pilot, FileSender large-file transfer, RCUB Media Portal streaming and video-on-demand, and RCUB eLearning on MOODLE); identity federation (iAMRES Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 SSO with eduGAIN membership); and research support (KoBSON library consortium access to 35,000+ journals and 90,000+ books across major indexing databases).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• iAMRES Identity Federation: Identity federation service for inter-institutional use of web services within AMRES network
• KoBSON
• RCUB eLearning

Products and services

• AMRES Network Connectivity Service Provides connectivity to the national research and education network, connecting Serbian academic and research institutions via optical fiber links (1Gb and 10Gb capacity) across 50 cities, with IPv4/IPv6 address allocation and access to the European GÉANT network and the Internet.
• eduroam Provides free, secure wireless internet access across Serbia and worldwide for students and staff of participating academic institutions, using WPA2/AES encryption and 802.11g or 802.11n standards, through a federated identity infrastructure.
• AMRES VPN Service Enables secure remote access to AMRES network resources and services using OpenVPN SSL tunnel technology, providing authentication, data confidentiality through encryption, and data integrity protection for users working off-campus.
• DNS Hosting Provides AMRES DNS servers for translating Internet domain names to IP addresses on end-user devices.
• Domain Registration (ac.rs / ak.srb) Offers free domain registration for institutions under the ac.rs and ak.srb (Cyrillic) top-level domains, managed through the AMRES domain registry.
• AMRES CSIRT Service Computer Security Incident Response Team providing reactive services (incident management, alarming, malware control) and proactive services (technology watch, notifications, security recommendations, consultations, and education) for AMRES network security.
• TCS Digital Certificates Provides digital SSL/TLS certificates and client certificates to AMRES users with ac.rs domain rights via the GÉANT/DigiCert TCS (Trusted Certificate Service), including server certificates, EV SSL, multi-domain, wildcard, and client certificates for signing and encryption.
• iAMRES Identity Federation Enables single sign-on across AMRES web services using institutional credentials, supporting SAML 2.0 Shibboleth IdP deployments, with participation in eduGAIN for cross-border inter-institutional authentication.
• AMRES Video-Conference Service Provides dedicated video-conference rooms in Novi Sad (30 seats, 1080p HD) and Niš (50 seats, 720p HD) for educational and scientific meetings, supporting H.323 or SIP protocols, multi-party conferences, and content sharing from user laptops.
• AMRES Web-Conferencing (Pilot) A pilot service enabling end-users to hold video conferences directly from personal devices using a web browser, distinct from the dedicated room-based video-conferencing service.
• KoBSON Consortium of Serbian Libraries for Coordinated Purchase providing access to over 35,000 foreign journal titles in full text, over 90,000 book titles, and indexed databases (Web of Science, Scopus, SCIndeks, INIS, MathSciNet, Medline, SciFinder), with citation tracking for Serbian researchers.
• RCUB eLearning Service Moodle-based electronic learning platform provided by RCUB (Computer Centre of University of Belgrade), enabling professors to create courses, forums, glossaries, wiki pages, and questionnaires, with student enrollment and progress monitoring capabilities.
• AMRES FileSender Secure large file transfer service allowing authenticated AMRES users to send files up to 10GB (HTML5) or 2GB (Adobe Flash) per upload, with temporary storage and automatic deletion after expiry, accessible via iAMRES Identity Federation or voucher-based guest uploads.
• RCUB Media Portal Multimedia service for uploading, live streaming, and video-on-demand archiving of academic lectures, seminars, and conferences, publicly available to the Serbian academic community.
• AMRES Web Proxy Service Proxies HTTP/HTTPS web traffic through IronPort devices at AMRES main site, providing virus and malicious content protection, with web-filtering based on reputation scoring (range -10 to +10) and content categorization into approximately 60 categories.
• AMRES Web-Filtering Service Allows AMRES institutions to define custom web-filtering policies by protocol (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP), content category, web-application, file type, and web-reputation, administered by institutional technical contacts through IronPort management.

Quantifiable outcome

• 300+ institutions connected to national academic network
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Feature13 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• GÉANTcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016European academic research network providing pan-European connectivity. AMRES connects to GÉANT via 10Gb primary and 1Gb secondary links. Partnership enables access to European e-infrastructure resources, collaboration services, and digital identity services for Serbian researchers and academics.
• CZ.NIZ (National CSIRT of Czech Republic)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015Partner in Cyber Security in Danube Region project (2015-2016). CZ.NIZ led the project aimed at training CSIRT teams for quality security service provision. Project increased AMRES information security capacity through employee training.
• eduGAINcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2014International identity federation project enabling cross-institutional authentication for web services. iAMRES Identity Federation became eduGAIN member, allowing Serbian researchers to access services at international institutions using institutional credentials.
• SEEREN (South-East European Research and Education Networking)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Regional networking initiative connecting Southeast European academic networks to GÉANT. AMRES participated in SEEREN (2002-2004) and SEEREN2 (2006-2008) projects funded by European Commission under FP5 and FP6 programs.
• SEELIGHT (South-East European Lambda Network Facility for Research and Education)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2010Regional optical network project enabling development of lambda infrastructure in Southeast European countries. Project secured 15-year lease of approximately 3,800 km of optical fibers connecting institutions in 50 Serbian cities and optical links to neighboring NRENs. Co-financed by Balkan Reconstruction Plan of Greece and Government of Serbia.
• TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Network Association)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2010Association of European NRENs. AMRES became member following establishment as legal entity in 2010. TERENA merged with GÉANT in 2015 to form the GÉANT network.
• RCUB (Računarski centar Univerziteta u Beogradu)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2010University of Belgrade Computer Centre provides eLearning, Media Portal, and KoBSON services to AMRES users. RCUB developed NetIIS monitoring system used for eduroam infrastructure monitoring.
• Government of the Republic of SerbiacoreOthers · 1 January 2010Established AMRES as public information-communication institution. Provides annual funding for maintenance, organization, functioning, construction, and development. Ministry responsible for telecommunications oversees SEELIGHT project implementation.
• SEEFIRE (South-East Europe Fibre Infrastructure for Research & Education)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2005FP6-funded project for analysis and recommendation of optimal optical communication technologies and resources for building optical academic networks in Southeast Europe. Foundation for subsequent SEELIGHT project.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• RENATER: France's national research and education network operating the optical backbone for French universities and research institutions. Directly comparable in scale, regulatory standing, and service portfolio (connectivity, identity, eduroam, security).
• Internet2: US non-profit computer networking consortium serving the research and education community with high-performance backbone, identity federation (InCommon), and trust services. Closest US analogue to a GÉANT-connected NREN like AMRES.
• ARNES (Academic and Research Network of Slovenia): Slovenian NREN providing connectivity, identity federation, eduroam, and security services to Slovenian academic and research institutions. Highly comparable in size, mandate, and service portfolio as a fellow small European NREN.
• GÉANT: Pan-European research and education network that AMRES directly connects to via 10 Gb/1 Gb links; GÉANT is the umbrella network for European NRENs and a core strategic partner. AMRES is functionally the Serbian national extension of the GÉANT ecosystem.
• CARNet (Croatian Academic and Research Network): Croatian NREN operating under a similar government-mandated model to deliver connectivity, identity, and eduroam services to Croatian universities and schools. Closest regional peer given shared SEE/NREN heritage.
• SURF: Dutch collaborative organization for IT in education and research, operating the national research network and a broad portfolio of shared services. Comparable as a vertically integrated academic platform (network, identity, content, compute).
• ACOnet (Austrian Academic Computer Network): Austrian NREN providing high-speed research networking, identity federation (eduroam Austria), and trust services. Comparable as a small, mature European NREN with a similar suite of academic services.
• DFN (Deutsches Forschungsnetz): German NREN providing high-speed research network connectivity and associated services to German universities and research institutes. Comparable as a government-backed, multi-service NREN with extensive European reach.
• JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee): UK NREN providing connectivity, identity federation, shared services, and Janet network for higher education and research. Highly comparable mandate, service mix (identity, security, content), and government-backed governance model.
• BREN (Bulgarian Research and Education Network): Bulgarian NREN providing connectivity and related services to academic and research institutions, with similar scale and SEE regional positioning. Directly comparable as a GÉANT-connected national NREN.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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