The Gigabit Wissenschaftsnetz (G-WiN) is a high speed net for science and research. Claimant by the DFN association, it replaced the slower broadband science net in the year 2000.

The G-WiN consists of 27 core nodes. These are connected with 55 connections of 2.5 or 10 GBit/s each. Over these core nodes 550 locations of universities or scientific mechanisms are tied up. (All conditions: 09/2005)

The G-WiN was switched off at the beginning of of 2006 and replaced by the new science net X-WiN.

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• DFN-Verein: About DFN
  The Gigabit-Wissenschaftsnetz (G-WiN) is the highspeed infrastructure of the DFN-Verein, which allows services to be connected with rates from 0128 Mbit/s ...


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• Press Release
  nodes of the Gigabit-Wissenschaftsnetz became full operational in June 2000. The backbone. of the network which spans the whole of Germany is provided by 27 ...


• Recent developments in European Research and Education Networking ...
  The Gigabit-Wissenschaftsnetz employs state-of-the-art optical fibre technology. Pioneering technologies such as Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and ...


• The new Gigabit-Wissenschaftsnetz (G-WiN) - driven by user's needs -
  pattloch@dfn.de. Network Development Workshop. 8th - 9th February 2000. The new Gigabit-Wissenschaftsnetz (G-WiN). - driven by user's needs - ...