BRAIN, the Berlin Research Area Information Network, is the high speed data net of Berlin’s public institutions for science, education and culture.
It came into being on the basis of a decision of Berlin’s Federal State Government of 1994 on the construction and operation of a state-owned glass fiber Metropolitan Area Network.
BRAIN connects more than 150 locations of more than 40 scientific and cultural institutions in Berlin.
BRAIN operates 2300 km of the state-owned glass fiber net and offers
- Active BRAIN Network
- for high-performance connections between scientific and cultural institutions in the city for direct IP data exchange
- for high-performance networking of individual locations of an institution with each other
- as community access to the DFN Internet (provider)
- as an access portal to the intranet of the state of Berlin (Berlin state network BeLa). - glass fibers and bandwidth to connect two locations of a single institution and
- glass fibers to link with the national network infrastructure of the DFN-Verein (German National Research and Education Network) for the DFN internet service X-WiN are offered.
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