Case Study
National Education and Research IT Provider Transforms Its Core Network for Massive Data Growth
Case Study 1 CSC – IT Center for Science Limited is a state-owned Finnish company administered by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland. CSC develops and maintains the centralized research and education IT infrastructure for Finland and provides nationwide information and communications technology (ICT) services for education and research management, as well as libraries, archives, museums, and cultural organizations. It provides researchers with Finland’s most extensive range of scientific software and scientific databases along with powerful supercomputers, data center facilities, and dedicated services for universities. CSC’s infrastructure includes Funet, the Finnish national research and education network, which provides high-speed data network connectivity to its c