AS1741

Funet (Finnish University and Research Network) is an advanced data communications network serving the Finnish research community. It connects about 80 research organizations and over 350 000 users. Funet services are maintained by CSC, the Finnish information technology center for science, owned by the Ministry of Education. CSC also coordinates Funet's network security, and participates in developing services needed in the information management for teaching and research. Via NORDUnet, the Funet network offers access to commercial Internet and other academic networks. NORDUnet members are the Finnish Funet, Swedish SUNET, Norwegian UNINETT, Danish Forskningsnettet, and RHnet in Iceland. Membership in Funet is open to all Finnish university-level academies and public research institutions.