
FUNET - FINNISH UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH NETWORK

FUNET is an organizational unit, directly reporting to the Ministry of
Education. Its task is to develop and maintain FUNET-network, which
connects universities and research institutes.

FUNET's members are Finnish universities and technical, science and
art colleges as well as many research institutes and companies, whose
R&D has communication needs with rest of the research community.

FUNET's network is one of the most progressive among the national
research networks in the world. The backbone network is based on
reliable Frame Relay technology, which is provided by Finnish
Telecom. The network supports multiprotocol traffic: tcp/ip, decnet
and nje, in some cases also x.25 and iso/ip.

FUNET provides gateways to domestic Elisa and Mailnet messaging
systems and to the network of Finnish unix-users. Likewise it has
connections with domestic commercial DataNet and LanLink -networks.

Links to global research community are provided through NORDUnet, a
nordic academic network. It connects finnish users with colleagues in
Internet, NSFnet, EARN, EUnet, IXI, SPAN, HEPnet, EASINET and amost
all national networks in Europe and on other continents.

FUNET Headquarters are located at the Centre for Scientific Computing
at the Otaniemi campus, Espoo, Finland.

MORE INFORMATION

Markus Sadeniemi ............ +358-0-457 2711
Paavo Ahonen .................+358-0-457 2288
Manu Mähönen..................+358-0-457 2240
Harri Salminen................+358-0-457 2005
Jyrki Soini ..................+358-0-457 2704

Internet : info@funet.fi
X.400: /S=info/O=funet/A=fumail/C=fi/

FUNET
Pl 405, Tietotie 6
02101 ESPOO
Tel. +358 0 4571 
Fax  +358 0 457 2302
















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