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SWITCH : The Swiss Education & Research Network - Towards a Virtual Community within the Knowledge Society

vendredi 5 décembre 2003, par Giezendanner François Daniel


More than fifteen years ago, in 1987, the SWITCH foundation was established by the Swiss Confederation and eight university cantons to promote modern methods of data transmission and to set up and run an academic and research network in Switzerland. In the earlier days, SWITCH planned, built and actually engineered the Internet in this country. This also provided the technological basis for operating the registration office for domain names ending in .ch and .li .

Today, SWITCH plays a vital role in the Information Society of Switzerland, ensuring development, security and stability of the Internet.

SWITCH supports the vision of e-Academia, the Internet community of students, researchers and lecturers, and the « digital exchange » between students in Switzerland and those elsewhere in the world. SWITCH already offers the Swiss Universities Internet-based services suitably tailored to the needs of the virtual community. The optical backbone SWITCHlambda supplies the technical prerequisites for academia in Switzerland to participate in the information society of the future.

SWITCH is committed to take academia in Switzerland one step further - into the Virtual Community of tomorrow. We are proud to support the EKS forum at the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva and would like to extend our best wishes for a great success.

SWITCH

Thomas Brunner
Managing Director

SWITCH - Teleinformatikdienste für Lehre und Forschung / Services de téléinformatique pour l’enseignement et la recherche SWITCH / P.O. Box / CH-8021 Zürich www.switch.ch

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