Silver Server

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Silver Server was an Internet service provider based in Vienna . The company was founded in 1994 by Oskar Obereder and established together with his partner Jens Grumbach as "the" alternative Internet service provider. Silver Server was focused on customers with professional demands. The offer mainly extended to broadband internet lines, hosting , server housing and internet telephony .

According to the 2005 Unbundling Status Report by Rundfunk und Telekom Regulierungs-GmbH (RTR), Silver Server GmbH ranked third in terms of the number of unbundled lines in Austrian households.

history

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Silver Server was founded in 1994 in the context of cultural activists and institutions in Vienna.

In 1995 the first dedicated line was installed , which offered 64 kbit / s data transfer rate and was based on ISDN . For this purpose, terminal servers for dial-up services were put into operation and web, mail and DNS hosting were offered. The network expansion began in 1996 with the establishment of several locations in Vienna. It was XDSL technology used. In 1998, the liberalization of telecommunications in Austria opened up new opportunities for the company to expand.

In 2001 the Silver Server GmbH was founded. An additional data center was also connected to the network. In 2002 Silver Server put a fiber optic ring through Vienna into operation as a backbone . In 2004 the company began to penetrate the VoIP area and carried out the first practical tests. A year later, this new company division was spun off as an independent Silver VoIP GmbH .

As of January 2009, according to the company register, Oskar Obereder was the company's managing director. The owners of the operationally active Silver Server GmbH (commercial register number FN 204414 i) were the Otoyol Privatstiftung with 99.01% and Oskar Obereder with 0.99%.

On November 22, 2011, Silver Server announced that Tele2 (currently the third largest telecommunications company in Austria) will take over Silver Server from 2012. In the course of the takeover, Oskar Obereder withdrew completely from the operative business. On August 1, 2012 the merger with Tele2 Telecommunication GmbH took place.

Locations

Until the end of February 2012, the company headquarters of Silver Server was in Lorenz-Mandl-Gasse 33/1 in Vienna's 16th district . In the course of the takeover by Tele2, however, this was relocated to the Ares Tower in Donau-City-Straße 11 in Vienna's 22nd district. The company maintained its own infrastructure in Vienna. The same applied to some electoral offices in the Upper Austrian capital Linz .

Silver Server had its own data centers in the 1st and 19th districts of Vienna . Both were redundantly connected to the Vienna Internet Exchange (VIX) and Interxion .

Infrastructure

On January 7, 2001, Silver Server put a 92.2 km (later 115 km) long fiber optic ring around Vienna into operation as a new backbone. This fiber optic ring, which, like the data center, was connected to the Vienna Internet Exchange (VIX) and Interxion with a redundant gigabit line , had been in commercial use since January 1, 2002 .

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