1 Dr. Alberto Pérez Gómez Deputy Director of RedIRIS Entidad pública empresarial Red.es TF-MSP Meeting Paris, RENATER Offices, RedIRIS The Emergency Military Unit as user of RedIRIS

UME

UME – Unidad Militar de Emergencia (Emergency Military Unit) Created by the Prime Minister in 2006 to provide support to other national and regional civil units in case of emergency (floods, earthquakes, fires, severe snowfalls, terrorist attacks…) soldiers distributed in seven different locations nationwide Connectivity is a key factor Need to interconnect with other military and civil networks – security is critical in this environment RENEM (National Emergency Network): Deployed over RedIRIS. It interconnects the military Wide Area Network (WAN) with different civil centers which provide emergency warnings or coordinate action in case of emergency (including regional 112 centers – previously not connected among themselves) Many of the centers providing emergency warnings were already affiliated to RedIRIS (National Meteorology Center, Spanish Oceanographic Institute, National Geology Institute..)

Civil Networks Military Networks UME Integration of warnings and coordination centers at three levels National Regional Local Nodos Permanentes Interoperability with Military Networks Military Satellite SPAINSAT Public Telephony Networks ISDN, GSM, GPRS Civil satellite Civil Satellite Nodos Desplegables Military Networks NATO & Bilateral UME Communications

UME Warning and coordination centers Instituto Nacional de Meteorología INM Red Sísmica IGN Dirección General Biodiversidad DGBD Dirección General del Agua DGA Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear CSN Dirección General Tráfico DGT INTA Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Aeroespacial CATA Centro de Alerta Temprana Antivirus IMP Instituto Medicina Preventiva – Insp. Gral. Sanidad Comunidades Autónomas CCAA Fuerzas y Cuerpos de Seguridad del Estado FCSE Mando de Operaciones EMAD INTEGRACIÓN EAI - SOA IEO Instituto Español Oceanografía Dirección de Infraestructura y Seguimiento para Situaciones de Crisis DISSC DGPCyE Sistema Integrado de Gestión de Emergencias SIGE Sistema Integrado Gestión y Adm. Medios Emergencia SIGAME Red de Alerta de Radioactividad RAR Dirección General de Protección Civil y Emergencias Dirección General de Carreteras DGC Dirección General Transporte por Carretera DGTC IGM Instituto Geológico y Minero INS Instituto Nacional Salud Carlos III

UME - RENEM National Emergency Network RGT MINISDEF & RETUME

UME - RENEM

UME - Affiliation The UME (Unidad Militar de Emergencia - Military Emergency Unit) was not among the kind of institutions which would usually become users of RedIRIS Additionally, in order to be able to use RedIRIS to create RENEM (National Emergency Network), it was necessary to allow several centers (like regional 112s) to connect to RedIRIS, even though those centers did not belong to the standard RedIRIS groups of users Affiliation of UME and of several of the centers it had to collaborate with through RENEM had to be specifically approved ad hoc by all the parties involved: MDE (Ministry of Defence – to which the UME belongs) MICINN (Ministry of Science and Innovation – it funds RedIRIS and sets the basic strategic guidelines) MITYC (Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade – Red.es, which manages RedIRIS, belongs to its State Department on Telecommunications and Information Society) Successful example of collaboration and widening of the RedIRIS user groups Dr. Tomás de Miguel, Director of RedIRIS, was awarded by the Minister of Defence the Military Merit Cross

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