SWITCH Information Technology Services
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| Abbreviation | SWITCH |
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| Motto | At the service of the universities |
| Formation | 22 October 1987 in Bern |
| Legal status | Foundation |
| Purpose | To create, promote and maintain information and communication technologies in Switzerland at the service of education and research |
| Headquarters | Zürich, Switzerland |
Region served | Switzerland and Liechtenstein |
Managing Director | Andreas Dudler |
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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