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Study Trip of the SWITCH Committee. UK, October 4 – 7, 2004. The Foundation. Mission and History Organisation Institutional Aspects, Financing Users Strategic Business Areas Strategic Projects. Mission. Deed of Foundation, 22-10-1987 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Study Trip of the SWITCH Committee
UK, October 4 – 7, 2004
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The Foundation
Mission and History
Organisation
Institutional Aspects, Financing
Users
Strategic Business Areas
Strategic Projects
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Mission
Deed of Foundation, 22-10-1987Mission of the Foundation is to create, promote and offer the necessary basis for the effective use of modern methods of telecomputing in teaching and research in Switzerland, to be involved in and to support such methods
History1986-1989 Establishment1990-1995 Development phase1996-1999 Consolidation phase2000-2004 New strategic orientation
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Organisation
FoundationCouncilBoard
Direction
SecurityInternet
IdentifiersManagement
ServicesNetServicesNetwork
BusinessDevelopment
SecretaryGeneral
W. Huber M. Sutter C. Graf C. Tönz C. Tönz
U. Eppenberger
F. Scaroni
Foundation Council: 32 membersBoard:
A. Dudler PresidentG. Chapuis Vice PresidentT. BraunP. KofmelR. Werlen
DirectionT. Brunner Managing DirectorC. Tönz Deputy
Headcount 6-2004: 58
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Institutional aspects, Financing
The Members of the Foundation Council representConfederation/Government (6)Cantons (9)Cantonal Universtities (10)SFIT-Domain (4)Universities of Applied Sciences (3)
The Foundation is financed byUniversitiesSWITCH equities (DN-Revenue)Confederation/Government (on project basis)EU (on project basis)Services
Global budget 2003: CHF 30 Mio (approx. £ 13 Mio)
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Users
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Strategic Business Areas
Network
Networkengineering
NetworkInfrastructure
Consulting
• SWITCHlambda
• IP Routing
• IPv6, QoS, Multicast
• PERT
Internet Identifiers
Domain Namen(Registration)
Domain Namen(further TLDs)
• Invoicing
• Administration
• Help Desk
• Online-Queries
• Consulting
• Added Services for End Users
• Added Services for second level service provider
UserRegistration
NetServices
virtual communities
e-mobility
• SWITCHaai• SWITCHmobile
• SWITCHvconf• Collaboration Tools• content delivery tools• Grid Middleware
Consulting
Security
Incident Handling
Consulting
Laboratory
Protection ofInfrastructure
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Network
1400 km fibersDWDM, 10GE, 1GE
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NetServices - Middleware & End User
SWITCHmobile enabled sites SWITCHvconf active users
SWITCHaai - Home Orgs and Resources
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C(I)IP:Collaboration with
the Government
SWITCH Security
Technical Expertise:Anomaly detection, Data analysis, Simulations, new Services etc.
Reaction:Contact and coordination point, Network Security
Projects/Service:e.g. PKI, common Policies
„CERT“
supports
Security Lab
Proactiv:Information of
the community (inter)national “Networking”
CriticalInftrastructure
Protection
supports
“Incident handling”
Services/Consulting
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Internet Identifiers
Development of Domain-Name registration .ch and .li 1996-2004
Total
Active
Inactive
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Srategic projects
Authorisation Authentication Infrastructure
e-Collaboration: videoconf, mobile
Public Key Infrastructure
End-to-End quality of service
Accounting (AAA)
Security of critical infrastructure
GRID services
New Identifiers services
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