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12.30 Germany by Klaus Ullmann <ullmann@dfn.dbp.de>
Service Provision for the Research Community in Germany
In Germany the research community is organized on a federal basis,
which means that no central funding body for networking exists. As there are
nolonger any regulatory barriers for service provision from the national PTT
there is more than one organisation in the research network field. The
biggest one is the DFN-Verein, an association of 250 institutional
members(all German universities as well as research labs and various
industries).Through this organisation the federal ministry for research and
technologyhas funded (amongst other projects) the installation of a national
connectivity network with 9.6 kbps, 64 kbps and 2 Mbps access points. A data
volume of about 120 GByte per month is being transferred; charges for the
access points are based on the capacities used and on a fixed price per
access point. On the basis of this connectivity network and to a lesser
degree through other means (i.e. leased lines, public X.25 network and ISDN
service) the DFN-association, the German branch of EUNET and the
Karlsruhe-based XLINK group provide a couple of services, namely OSI-, EARN- and
IP-services (DFN) and IP service (EUNET, XLINK). All these services provide
(through different means) international connectivity as well.
In future editions of the ISOC newsletter these services will be
describedin more detail.