1. Roland Eugster roland.eugster@switch.ch Welcome to Zurich TERENA TF-PR Meeting 29.9.10 - 1.10.08

2. © 2008 SWITCH How to survive three days at SWITCH? SSID:public-switch username:terena password:tfpr

3. © 2008 SWITCH Welcome to Switzerland 350 km; 215 miles 220 km; 135 miles

4. © 2008 SWITCH Lunches & Dinners

5. © 2008 SWITCH Mount Uetliberg

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8. SWITCH - Mission Mission of foundation Founders:  Swiss Confederation  8 universitary Cantons "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“ The foundation has neither commercial targets, nor is it aligned with profit-making.’

9. © 2008 SWITCH Rules of conduct Basic principle  Subsidiarity and Solidarity Operational policies:  Early detection and anticipation of new requirements  Focus on cutting edge technologies and services  Intensive cooperation with all Swiss universities  Long term, sustainable investments  National and international coordination

10. © 2008 SWITCH Organisation chart

11. © 2008 SWITCH SWITCHlan Topology

12. © 2008 SWITCH Strategy for SWITCHlan Performance Reliability Innovation Cost effectiveness Helpdesk PERT and CERT

13. © 2008 SWITCH SWITCHconnect Physical mobility within the academic community both nationally and internationally Access to one‘s home organization, and thus access to the Internet from anywhere  wireless or over cable of any Swiss university  over public WLAN hotspots  Europe-wide within the academic world

14. © 2008 SWITCH SWITCHaai Authentication Authorization Infrastructure AuthN & AuthZ

15. © 2008 SWITCH Record, edit and publish lectures 15 End User Service Portfolio Communication and Collaboration

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17. SWITCH Internet Domains

18. © 2008 SWITCH Innovations IDN SWITCHbasic  Our standard domain name  Improved password quality  Comprehensive online administration  History functionality  Simplified handling SWITCHguard  Increased security for domain names  Improved password quality  Comprehensive online administration  History functionality  More complex handling

19. © 2008 SWITCH Current projects SWITCHcast  Promotion of service to IT, professors and students SWITCHcert  Attract Swiss banks to customer base SWITCHconnect  Increase usage of PWLAN nationwide SWITCH Website  Complete redesign of website  Hire more staff SWITCH Junior Web Award  Successful accomplishment of third round Image analysis  Brand awareness, image and customer satisfaction SWITCH Journal  Complete redesign of customer magazine Marketing training for staff Implement picture data base