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040.62 Europe commercial nets
by Juha Heinanen <Juha.Heinanen@funet.fi>
In this first report, an overview is given on present European commercial
providers of Internet services.
Traditionally commercial customers needing Internet services in Europe have
turned to EUnet, which is a not-for-profit network related to EurOpen
association. The branch of EUNET offering IP level services is called
InterEUnet and currently it has points of presense in Austria, Belgium, France,
Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, the Nordic Countries, Switzerland, and United
Kingdom. Connectivity to the U.S is via Alternet.
Another network providing European wide Internet services is InfoLAN. InfoLAN
is owned by InfoNet which is a Los Angeles based international network
operator. InfoLAN has IP access nodes in Belgium, France, Finland, Germany,
Sweden, and United Kingdom and links from Europe to the U.S. Customers
subscribe to InfoLAN usually because of their internal interconnection needs
and Internet connectivity is offered as an added value to qualified users.
Besides these international service provides, there exists national commercial
internet networks in Finland and Sweden, where open competition has encouraged
fulfilling of advanced user needs.
In Finland, DataNet, which is run by the state owned telecom company, and
LANLINK, which is managed by a consortium of local telecom companies, offer LAN
interconnectivity supporting (among others) the TCP/IP protocol suite.
Qualified DataNet customers can get Internet Access either via NORDUnet or via
DataNet's InfoLAN connection.
In Sweden, there exists similarly two competing IP providers: SWIPNET, which is
an IP service of a privately owned telecom operator Tele2, and TIPNET, which is
run by the state owned PTT. Both of these networks can currently both closed
and open IP connectivity and Internet access to qualified customers via
NORDUnet.