Last week, the number of services registered in the SWITCHaai federation crossed the 1’000 line for the first time.
When the Università della Svizzera italiana, Damiano Bianchi (Servizio informatico TI-EDU) registered the ‘USI Library service’ (the 21st service of USI), this new service became the 1’000th SP available in the SWITCHaai federation.
It’s the first time in the history of SWITCHaai that we have reached this number of registered SPs. Due to old services getting deleted and new ones registered, the actual number of services slightly fluctuates. However, in general it has been steadily increasing since the production SWITCHaai service was launched 12 years ago in autumn 2005 (see the graph in the lower right corner in the growth picture below).
The SWITCHaai federation serves the higher education community in Switzerland and Liechtenstein: More than 99% of all students, staff members and researchers at universities, universities of applied sciences and teacher education universities have a SWITCHaai-enabled user account. With their account, they can access a wide variety of services. Users as well as service administrators enjoy the benefit of no service specific user accounts required!
In addition, more than 100’000 further users from about 20 university related institutions have user accounts that provide them also access via SWITCHaai.
SWITCH and the SWITCHaai federation participate in the development and use of eduGAIN, the GÉANT interfederation service that interconnects more than 40 federations world-wide.