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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
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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 • Mission 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 • History • 1986-1989 Establishment • 1990-1995 Development phase • 1996-1999 Consolidation phase • 2000-2004 New strategic orientation
Organisation Foundation Council: 32 members Board: A. Dudler President G. Chapuis Vice President T. Braun P. Kofmel R. Werlen Foundation Council Secretary General Board F. Scaroni Direction T. Brunner Managing Director C. Tönz Deputy Direction Business Development U. Eppenberger Network NetServices Security Internet Identifiers Management Services W. Huber M. Sutter C. Graf C. Tönz C. Tönz Headcount 6-2004: 58
Institutional aspects, Financing • The Members of the Foundation Council represent • Confederation/Government (6) • Cantons (9) • Cantonal Universtities (10) • SFIT-Domain (4) • Universities of Applied Sciences (3) • The Foundation is financed by • Universities • SWITCH equities (DN-Revenue) • Confederation/Government (on project basis) • EU (on project basis) • Services • Global budget 2003: CHF 30 Mio (approx. £ 13 Mio)
Network Internet Identifiers NetServices Security Domain Namen(Registration) e-mobility Network Infrastructure Incident Handling • Invoicing • Administration • Help Desk • Online-Queries • Consulting • SWITCHaai • SWITCHmobile • SWITCHlambda Protection of Infrastructure virtual communities Network engineering Consulting Domain Namen (further TLDs) • SWITCHvconf • Collaboration Tools • content delivery tools • Grid Middleware • IP Routing • IPv6, QoS, Multicast • PERT • Added Services for End Users • Added Services for second level service provider Laboratory Consulting User Registration Consulting Strategic Business Areas
Network 1400 km fibers DWDM, 10GE, 1GE
NetServices - Middleware & End User SWITCHmobile enabled sites SWITCHvconf active users SWITCHaai - Home Orgs and Resources
SWITCH Security „CERT“ Reaction: Contact and coordination point, Network Security Proactiv: Information of the community (inter)national “Networking” “Incident handling” C(I)IP: Collaboration with the Government Services/ Consulting Critical Inftrastructure Protection supports supports Projects/Service: e.g. PKI, common Policies Security Lab Technical Expertise: Anomaly detection, Data analysis, Simulations, new Services etc.
Development of Domain-Name registration .ch and .li 1996-2004 Total • Active • Inactive Internet Identifiers
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