Abbreviation SWITCH Managing Director Andreas Dudler Founded 1987 | Headquarters Zürich | |
Purpose To create, promote and maintain information and communication technologies in Switzerland at the service of education and research Motto At the service of the universities | ||
Swiss foundation managing the .ch and .li country-code top-level domains for Switzerland and Liechtenstein, respectively. As the Swiss national research and education network organisation, SWITCH also manages the educational networks among Swiss universities and research facilities, and the links to other (non Swiss) university networks. It also mirrors open source software (including several distributions of Linux, e.g. (K)Ubuntu).
References
SWITCH Information Technology Services Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA