Abbreviation SWITCH Managing Director Andreas Dudler Founded 1987 | Legal status Foundation Headquarters Zürich | |
Formation 22 October 1987 in Bern Purpose To create, promote and maintain information and communication technologies in Switzerland at the service of education and research Region served Switzerland and Liechtenstein 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).
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SWITCH Information Technology Services Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA