TERENA NREN Compendium 2010
Basic Information

Updated: 28 September 2010 at 09:10
Organisation:
Users / Clients Connectivity Services Traffic Technical Services Funding and Staffing Basic Information
  1. Funet
  2. Funet
  3. Funet
  4. Funet
  5. c/o CSC, Keilaranta 14
    02150 ESPOO
  6. P.O. Box 405
    02101 ESPOO
  7. Finland
  8. +358 9 457 2302
  9. +358 9 457 2001
  10. helpdesk@csc.fi
  11. http://www.funet.fi (http://www.csc.fi/funet)
  12. 1983
  13. 1983
  14. 1983
  15. http://www.csc.fi/hallinto/funet/esittely/historia (ISBN: 9789525520354, the history book of Funet in Finnish)
  16. ( )Separate legal entity of its own
    (x)Not a legal entity of its own, but part of a larger organisation
    ( )Not a separate legal entity and also not part of a larger organisation
  17.  
  18. ( )We are a government agency or part of a ministry
    (x)The Government appoints at least half of the members of our Governing body
    ( )There is an indirect relationship (for example if at least half the members of your Governing body are appointed by research and education institutions that in itself are (largely) government-funded)
    ( )No formal relationship
    ( )Other, please explain below
  20. Funet is a service provided by CSC — IT Center for Science Ltd.
    CSC is a not-for-profit company 100% owned and governed by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland. As a limited company, CSC has a Board of Directors (appointed by the shareholders, that is Ministry of Education) and a Managing Director.
  21. http://www.csc.fi/english/csc/overview/organisation
  22. (x)Yes ( )No
  23. http://www.csc.fi/english/institutions/funet/about/ethics
  24. (x)Yes ( )No
  25. in Finnish: http://www.csc.fi/hallinto/funet/palvelut/yhteydet/kayttosaannot
  26. (x)Yes ( )No
  27. To be more concrete in membership related issues.
  28. ( )Yes (x)No
  29.  
  30. (x)Yes ( )No
  31. ( )Yes (x)No
  32.  
  33. ( )Yes ( )No ( )Planned
  34.  
  35. The Finnish university system is currently undergoing a largest restructuring process in decades. Some mergers of universities has already occurred and more is ahead. The change has increased a demand for fixed DWDM lightpaths between the new geographically separated university sites.

    Funet started an IRU dark fiber based DWDM network upgrade in 2008 which practically covers the whole network now.

    The renewal of the backbone routers has been finalized and the links between them were upgraded to 10 Gbps. Also network topology was restructured.
  36. The examples "cloud" and "virtual private server" noted under the "Clouds" are technically very different services from each other. Not knowing exactly what is ment by the questions under the "Clouds" makes them difficult to answer.