SWITCH _A_d_d_r_e_s_s: SWITCH Geschaeftsstelle ETH-Zentrum CH-8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND _E-_m_a_i_l: ch-zone-contact@verw.switch.ch _P_h_o_n_e: +41 1 261 8188 _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n SWITCH is a foundation, sponsored by the government and the Swiss universities, providing teleinformatics services to all Swiss universities and to various research institutes by connecting to national and international resources. SWITCH started operation in October 1988. SWITCHlan is a national backbone network which connects all universities using leased lines with speeds between 128kbit/s and 2Mbit/s. For routing on these national leased lines SWITCH uses CISCO router-bridges. The protocols sup- ported are DECnet, TCP/IP, X.25 and ISO IP. All Swiss supercomputers are connected to SWITCHlan. Access to some library catalogs will become available later on. International connections on the network level will go into operation in January 1990: - IP connection to CERN with 128kbit/s. - IP connection to the Internet/NSFnet with 64kbit/s through INRIA, France to Princeton University, USA. A connection to the COSINE/IXI pilot X.25 network will be realized in the first quarter of 1990. _________________________ The information in this section is provided in accor- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front of this guide. 28 November 1989 NNSC Section 5.24, Page 1 SWITCHmail is the national X.400 MHS network which connects the universities and research institutes to the ADMD of the Swiss PTT and through RARE MHS to research MHS networks in 19 countries. Gateways to EARN/BITNET, EUnet/UUCP and Inter- net are offered by SWITCH too. In RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne, European research network organisation), SWITCH is an active partner in the RARE MHS pilot project and it will partici- pate in the pilot X.500 Directory Service project and in the COSINE Information Service project. _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s Any host on the network of a member organization may access the network. _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _N_e_t_w_o_r_k SWITCH networks can only be used for academic and research traffic. _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n Fax number: +41 1 261 8133 28 November 1989 NNSC Section 5.24, Page 2