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Metropolitan Area Network of the city of Cracow

The Centre functions as the main network node in southern Poland. The Cracow MAN provides and supports interurban and international connections with direct access to the pan-European GEANT network (10 Gb/s), as well as two slower networks: Polpak-T and Telbank. With 4000 user accounts on its network server, the Centre provides the state and local administration offices as commercial organisations with Internet-based resources.

Each month:

  • 700,000 login operations,
  • 900,000 e-mail transfers,
  • 2,500,000 requests to the CYFRONET WWW server, which delivers information related to the Centre itself and to the Cracow region.
  • 300 GB of software (shareware and freeware) an the FTP server.
  • 5,000,000 new messages arriving on the news server, each day.
The Centre functions as the main network node in southern Poland. The Cracow MAN provides and supports interurban and international connections with direct access to the pan-European GEANT network (10 Gb/s), as well as two slower networks: Polpak-T and Telbank. CYFRONET is possessing ca. 100 km of fibreoptics cables.

With 4000 user accounts on its network server, the Centre provides the state and local administration offices as well as commercial organisations with Internet-based resources.

1991 - The first network connection linking Cracow to Warsaw and the first EARN/BITNET node on an IBM 4381 installed.

2007 - Between 1994 and 2007, Cracow hosted 17 very successful international conferences on computer science.

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