Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Spread over four large campus areas and with around 41,000 students, the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main is one of the five largest German universities. The university datacenter operates the network for voice and data communications as well as the central IT services (eg e-mail, Internet services, e-learning, file and compute services), and public computer systems in computer pool rooms. Due to the very large distances and the very high safety requirements only fibre optic in conjunction with intelligent Fibre To The Office systems technology came as a solution.