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- SWITCH - Swiss University and Research Network
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- SWITCH Head Office
- Limmatquai 138
- CH-8001 Zurich
- SWITZERLAND
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- _E_m_a_i_l: Postmaster@switch.ch
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- _P_h_o_n_e: +41 1 256 5454
- FAX: +41 1 261 8133
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- SWITCH is a foundation, sponsored by the government and the
- Swiss universities, providing teleinformatics services to
- all Swiss universities and to various research institutes by
- connecting to national and international resources. SWITCH
- started operation in October 1988.
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- SWITCHlan is a national backbone network which connects all
- universities using leased lines with speeds between
- 128 kbit/s and 2 Mbit/s. Most other organizations are
- connected via 64 kbit/sec. For routing on these national
- leased lines SWITCH uses CISCO routers. The protocols
- supported are DECnet, TCP/IP, X.25 and ISO CLNS.
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- All three Swiss supercomputers are connected to SWITCHlan.
- Access to some library catalogs is already available; others
- will join later.
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- International connections on the network level went
- into operation in January 1990. The current state today is:
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- o+ Two lines with TCP/IP to CERN, each 2 Mbit/s. This
- gives access to the European part of the Internet and
- access to the NSFnet via the EASIgate T1 link to Cor-
- nell.
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
- of this guide.
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- May 25, 1992 NNSC Section 5.24, Page 1
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- o+ TCP/IP and ISO CLNS connection to Nice, France
- with 64kbit/s; this link is the backup route to the
- Internet/NSFnet.
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- o+ A TCP/IP 64 kbit/sec line to BelWue, a regional
- research network in southern Germany.
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- A 64 kbit/sec connection to the COSINE/IXI pilot X.25 net-
- work has been running since the first quarter of
- 1990. This infrastructure is mainly used for exchanging
- X.400 messages, connecting to other X.500 DSAs and for
- TCP/IP over X.25 and ISO CLNS over X.25 with the Euro-
- pean Academic and Research Community.
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- SWITCHmail is the national X.400 MHS network which con-
- nects the universities and research institutes to the
- ADMD of the Swiss PTT and through COSINE-MHS to research MHS
- networks in 19 countries. E-mail gateways to
- EARN/BITNET, UUCP and Internet are also offered by SWITCH.
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- In RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europe-
- enne, the European research network organisation), SWITCH
- is an active partner in the COSINE MHS project as well
- as in the COSINE pilot X.500 Directory Service pro-
- ject and the COSINE Information Service project.
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- Any host on the network of a connected organization may
- access the network, as long the usage complies with the use
- policy of SWITCH.
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- SWITCH networks can only be used for academic and research
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