Compendium 2002 Country Information
- BASIC INFORMATION
- ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
- STAFFING
- FINANCES, BUDGET
- USER BASE
- CAPACITY AND PLANS
- SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
BASIC INFORMATION
| Full name of the organisation (in English:) | Swiss Academic and Research Network |
| Full name of the organisation in the national language(s): |
Teleinformatikdienste fuer Lehre und Forschung Services de teleinformatique pour l'enseignement et la recherche |
| Abbreviation in the national language(s): | SWITCH |
| Visiting address: | Limmatquai 138 |
| City/postal code: | CH - 8001 ZÜRICH |
| Postal address: | Postfach |
| City/postal code: | 8021 ZÜRICH |
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Switzerland |
| Year founded: | 1987 |
| Year operations started: | 1988 |
| Short description of the history of the NREN: | www.switch.ch/about/foundation.html |
| Fax: | +41-1-268 15 68 |
| Phone: | +41-1 268 15 15 |
| Website: | www.switch.ch |
| General e-mail address: | info@switch.ch |
| Convention used for e-mail addresses: | name@switch.ch |
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
| Form of organisation: |
Separate legal entity / Other non-profit organisation / |
| Number of organisational members, shareholders and/or owners: | 30 |
| Brief description of the governing structure: |
SWITCH is a foundation. The governing structure consists of 3 bodies: - foundation council (30 members) - foundation committee (4-5 members of the council) - offices (40 employees) |
| Involvement in cctld or domain names: |
We manage the ccTLDs .ch and .li We participate in any relevant working group where the working areas of SWITCH are covered. Generally 2 engineers of SWITCH attend RIPE meetings. |
| Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s): | Dr. Andreas Dudler |
| President | |
| Mr. Thomas Brunner | |
| Managing Director | |
| Head of the Technical Staff: | Mr. Thomas Brunner Managing Director |
| E-mail: | brunner@switch.ch |
| Name of contact person for PR matters: | Mr. Urs Eppenberger |
| E-mail: | eppenberger@switch.ch |
STAFFING
| Total number of staff directly employed by the organisation: | 25 |
| Number of directly employed staff in Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): | 22.5 |
| Number of directly employed Technical Staff in FTE: | 18.5 |
| Average number of people (in FTE) working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis: | 2.5 |
| Number of subcontracted/outsourced technical staff in FTE: | 1.5 |
| Number of administrative and financial staff in FTE: | 5 |
| Number of user support and training staff in FTE: | 3 |
| Total amount of effort in person/months per year: | 308 |
FINANCES, BUDGET
| The budget year is equal to the calendar year. | |
| Total budget of last financial year (in euro): | 12.7 M |
| Total budget current financial year (in euro): | 14.6 M |
| Source | Percentage of income | Restricted | Free |
| Government/public bodies: | 8 | x | |
| Users: | 45 | x | |
| Other sources: | 47 | x |
| Method of client charging: | We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee |
| Expenditure category: | Percentage: |
| Salaries and general office costs | 23 |
| Equipment and software costs | 7 |
| Transmission (data communications) | 36 |
| Other | 5 |
| Depreciation | 29 |
| Method of obtaining national data communications capacity: | We own our own network |
| Method of obtaining international data communications capacity: | Through the GÉANT project |
| Remarks: |
Nationally and internationally we also have contracts with providers. Expenditure: Equipment and software cost: including running cost Expenditure: Depreciation: mainly Equipment |
USER BASE
| Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000): | 120, year: 1999 |
| Percentage of University students with internet access through the NREN: | 100 |
| Percentage of further education students with Internet access through the NREN: | 5 |
| Percentage of secondary education students with internet access through the NREN: | 0 |
| External traffic per university student in 2001 (in GB/yr): | 7.9 |
| Congestion in the national network: rank from most (1) to least (5) congested; est. percentage of clients experiencing congestion |
| Campus LAN | 3 | 20 |
| Access network | 2 | 10 |
| NREN backbone | 5 | |
| External connections | 4 |
| Manner in which institutions are connected to the network: | |
| Directly connected to a POP on the NREN: | 18 |
| Connected via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party: | 29 |
| Connected via another way: | 43Institutions connected "behind" directly connected institutions |
| Number of institutions with a permanent connection: | 90 |
| Number of connected Universities: | 68 |
| Percentage of total number of Universities that is connected via the NREN: | 95 |
| Number of connected institutes of higher or further education: | very few |
| Percentage of all institutes of higher or further education that is connected via the NREN: | 10 |
CAPACITY AND PLANS
| Current core network capacity in Mbps: | 2000 Mbps |
| Total volume of traffic through the network in 2001 (in TB): | 905 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 552 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in 2001 (in TB): | 393 |
| Total traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 114 |
| Volume of outbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 67 |
| Volume of inbound external traffic in January 2002 (in TB): | 47 |
| Core capacity in Mb/s x km: | 626750 |
| Typicial large-site access capacity (in Mbps): | 155 Mbps |
| Expected access capacity in two years time: | 6 times as much, to 1 Gb/s |
| Map of network topology: | www.switch.ch/lan/national.html |
| Recent network traffic statistics: | www.switch.ch/cgi-bin/lan/statistics/lansummary-public |
| Operational external connections in January 2002 (usable capacity in Mb/s:) |
| GÉANT (shared with CERN), 2488 Mb/s |
| CIXP CERN Internet Exchange, 1000 |
| IX Europe Zürich Internet Exchange, 155 Mb/s |
| Internet Transit (Swisscom), 300 |
| Planned additions or upgrades to the external connections in 2002: |
| IX Europe Zürich Internet Exchange, upgrade to 1000 Mb/s |
| Internet Transit, upgrade and new provider, 600 Mb/s |
| Expected operational external connections in January 2004: |
| GÉANT (dedicated for SWITCH), 2488 |
| Internet Transit, 2488 |
| Technology used for the core network: | Dark fiber based DWDM and ATM |
| Planned technical changes: | More dark fiber based DWDM, no ATM anymore. |
| Expected core capacity in two years: | 4 times (to 10 Gb/s) |
| Involvement in Internet Exchange Point: | No. |
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS
| Services provided: | |
| - Basic IP provision: | Done by NREN |
| - User support: | Done by NREN |
| - NOC: | Done by NREN |
| - Directory services: | Done by NREN |
| - Security incident response: | Done by NREN |
| - PKI/CA: | Done by NREN |
| - Annual Conferences: | Done by NREN |
| Summary of or URL to Acceptable Use Policy: |
SWITCH provides service to higher education and research in Switzerland. Included are 'supporting organizations', like libraries, science foundation, as well as industrial partners of research projects. www.switch.ch/about/aup.html |
| Current interests: |
*Infrastructure / Giga Ethernet / Wireless LAN / In house Certification Authority / Directory Services / Caching, Indexing, Mirroring / Multicast / *Security / CERT services / CERT incident coordination / Video Conferencing / Traffic Monitoring / Charging / billing systems / |
| Essential future interests: |
*Infrastructure / Giga Ethernet / Wireless LAN / IPv6 Development / IPv6 Service Deployment / *Middleware / User authentication / In house Certification Authority / Video Conferencing / Streaming Media / |
| Potential future interests: |
Lambda Testbed access / Lambda Service Deployment / User authentication / In house PKI development/deployment / In house Certification Authority / Mobile Access (Persistence of presence) / Teaching and learning methods / Streaming Media / Information Content indexing |
| Will follow other NRENs on: | Information Content indexing |
| Not interested in: |
SDH / Diffserv/Qos / MPLS Service Deployment / Teaching and learning methods / Web Server content management / Web Server usage analysis / |