Spacenet
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| legal form | AG |
| founding | 1993 |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
| management | Sebastian von Bomhard (Management Board), Michael Emmer (Management Board), Alexander Grundner-Culemann (Chairman of the Supervisory Board) |
| Number of employees | 125 (as of 2020) |
| sales | EUR 16.2 million |
| Branch | Information and communicationtechnology |
| Website | space.net |
The SpaceNet AG is a German Internet service provider based in Munich . Historically, the company is one of the first commercial Internet providers in Germany.
history
SpaceNet was founded on December 20, 1993 as a GmbH by Sebastian von Bomhard , Axel Bauer and Martin Twickler. The entry in the commercial register took place on January 12th, 1994. The corporate goal of SpaceNet GmbH was initially to network companies via satellite . Networking via satellite soon disappeared and the offer remained to connect companies to the Internet. In 1999, the company was the first German Internet provider to receive IPv6 Internet addresses. On August 28, 2000 SpaceNet GmbH became a stock corporation , with Sebastian von Bomhard as the board member. In addition to Sebastian von Bomhard, Michael Emmer has been another member of the board since April 1, 2018.
SpaceNet AG's company focus today is on high-availability hosting of applications and IT infrastructures, IT outsourcing and the operation of ISO -certified data centers . In 2020 SpaceNet AG had 125 employees. The 2018 annual report recorded a gross profit of 16.2 million euros.
SpaceNet AG has been operating three high-security data centers in Munich since 2008, and is represented at other locations in Germany with nodes to other providers who do not have employees. In 2018, construction will begin on a new high-security data center in Kirchheim near Munich, with an area of over 5000 m² and space for around 2,000 racks with 47 height units, which corresponds to around 113,000 servers.
Products
As an independent internet provider, SpaceNet AG supplies companies and public institutions in southern Germany. According to her own statements, her strategic business focus lies in the high-end area of managed hosting applications and related services.
Their product portfolio includes data center areas, internet connections, company networks, network and data security, cloud solutions, e-mail services with backup and archiving solutions as well as network-based applications and websites. Your own backbone enables an independent infrastructure with interfaces to international nodes.
- 1994: Introduction of SpaceNet Mail
- 2003: The Unified Communications Manager is supposed to ensure seamless communication.
- 2004: Greylisting is introduced to prevent spam .
- 2005: One-time token passwords are intended to ensure increased security.
- 2006: SpaceNet starts Netzheimer on Antenne Bayern.
- 2007: Opening of the third data center.
- 2008: Development of “Climate Partner”: climate-neutral internet services; Received ISO 27001 safety certification for the first time in the same year .
- 2009: The company's electricity consumption is now covered by renewable energy sources.
- 2011: Launch of the "Mailofant" for mail archiving and again ISO-27001 certification (re-audit).
- 2013: Introduction of the Dropbox alternative "Sync'N'Share". The SpaceNet Award is presented for the first time to mark the company's twentieth anniversary .
- 2014: New SpaceNet website with interactive solution finder.
- 2015: Launch of "Cloudissimo", an office cloud for medium-sized companies.
- 2016: test winner of com magazine ! with "SpaceNet Mail 4.0" in the category of email hosting solutions.
Research and Development
According to the 2016 company report, SpaceNet AG conducts research in the areas of digital market trends and product innovations. One of the research focuses in 2016 was on further increasing the user-friendliness of the product and service range. One of the measures is to increase flexibility in the provision of virtualized resources (cloud pool). This should enable customers to independently provision virtual machines on the basis of a resource quota. At the end of 2016, a new entry-level product was developed in the area of dedicated servers. A high level of standardization resulted in a significant cost reduction.
In addition to internal research and development work, SpaceNet AG also cooperates with research institutions, clusters and companies and participates in scientific IT projects. As part of the INTERREG VA program Austria-Bavaria 2014-2020 , SpaceNet AG acted as a technical service provider within the project "Sustainable residential locations". The aim of the project is to develop an IT-supported decision-making aid for the sustainable choice of residential location.
For its research activities, SpaceNet AG received the Stifterpreis 2016/17 from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft eV with the seal of "Innovative through Research".
The total expenditure for research and development in the 2016 financial year was around EUR 500,000, which corresponds to 3% of sales.
Network policy
- 1995: Co-founding of the Federal Data Highway (BDA)
- 1997: SpaceNet GmbH receives membership number 1 as a founding member of DENIC eG.
- 2009: together with other internet providers the forum provider against child abuse on the internet (FGMB) technical adviser for politics (e.g. with the fgmb (forum against abuse)) against censorship!
- 2016: SpaceNet AG files a lawsuit against data retention on April 25th together with the Internet association Eco .
- 2017: On June 22nd, the Münster Higher Administrative Court ruled that the law on data retention violates EU law. SpaceNet AG is initially the only German provider to be exempted from the storage obligation. Six days later, the Federal Network Agency temporarily suspended the obligation to store data under the law that came into force on July 1, 2017, until a complaint in the main proceedings was decided.
- 2018:: On April 20, 2018, the Cologne Administrative Court (in parallel proceedings by Telekom) ruled that the unprovoked data retention is not compatible with EU law. The Federal Republic, represented by the Federal Network Agency, had appealed against the decision of the Cologne Administrative Court. SpaceNet has approved the leap revision to the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig.
- 2019: On September 25, 2019, the Leipzig Federal Administrative Court suspended the data retention procedure of SpaceNet and submitted a question to the European Court of Justice on the interpretation of the data protection directive for electronic communications (Directive 2002/58 / EC). The European judges now have to decide whether the German regulation, which provides for a compulsory and comprehensive storage of traffic and location data for all users, is compatible with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Only then will there be legal certainty for the Internet and telecommunications industry. Until final clarification, the obligation to retain data remains suspended.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the company website in the team section . Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c SpaceNet AG - Munich - Annual financial statements for the financial year from 01/01/2018 to 12/31/2018. Management report - I. Basics of the company. In: Federal Gazette. Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, August 15, 2019, accessed on January 9, 2020 .
- ↑ See the historical outline of the development of the Internet in Germany: The Internet in Germany. In: netplanet.org. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ See also the entry on Sebastian von Bomhard
- ↑ handelsregister.de. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ See on this: Sebastian von Bomhard, in: World Wide Was? Anecdotes and absurdities from the pioneering days of the German Internet , ed. by Sebastian von Bomhard et al., Munich (SpaceNet-Verlag) December 15, 2009, p. 52 ff.
- ↑ Karl-Erich Weber: Management duo at SpaceNet AG: Michael Emmer becomes board member. In: Channel partner. April 5, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Gerhard Fuhrmann: A state-of-the-art data center is being built in Kirchheim. In: hallo-muenchen.de. February 22, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Website of the data center in Kirchheim SDC - SpaceNet Datacenter. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Netzheimer blog News from the world of IT by Felix Netzheimer. In: netzheimer.de. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
- ↑ IT News from Felix Netzheimer and SpaceNet. In: spacenet.de. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Bär: Company in focus. SpaceNet Mail 4.0 in the test. In: commagazin.de. February 5, 2016, accessed December 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Program content . In: Interreg website. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ SpaceNet receives an award from the Stifterverband for its research activities. In: perspektiven-mittelstand.de. July 18, 2016, accessed December 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Stefan Krempl: Spacenet and Eco are suing the administrative court against the data retention. In: Heise Online. May 9, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Martin Holland: Federal Network Agency suspends data retention. In: Heise Online. June 28, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Marvin Strathmann: Judges don't give data retention a chance. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Data retention violates EU law. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Basic decision: Does data retention violate fundamental rights? In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 4, 2020]).
- ^ ZEIT ONLINE: Federal Administrative Court: Data retention will be a case for the European Court of Justice . In: The time . September 25, 2019, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 4, 2020]).
- ↑ Data retention: German courts refer to the ECJ. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .