General
Trinet, the Otaniemi area campus network, was founded in 1986. Today it provides Internet access to all Otaniemi located student apartments owned by the Aalto University Student Union (AYY) and the Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region (HOAS). The network covers about 2500 student households and is connected to Funet, the Finnish research and educational network. This allows the use of academic network services in addition to a fast and reliable general Internet connectivity.
All apartments connected to Trinet have at least 100 Mbps access connectivity and all apartment buildings have at least a 1 Gbps uplink to the backbone. The 1 Gbps upgrade project, which will eventually provide 1 Gbps access connectivity to all apartments and 10 Gbps access switch uplinks, started in July 2010 from Servinkuja 1.
Trinet has redundant connections to the Internet via Funet with 10 Gbps main (Funet/Espoo) and 10 Gbps backup (Funet/Helsinki) uplinks.
Along with the wired service, the AYY wireless network is available in sauna, party and meeting facilities (current coverage). It provides secure encrypted access via eduroam authentication (essid "eduroam") or unencrypted access via the AYY open access network (essid "tupsu").
The network provides both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity. IPv4 multicast is supported throughout the network and IPv6 multicast within the apartment buildings upgraded to 1 Gbps access connectivity. IPTV is the major application for multicast, and is offered both via AYY and Maxinetti IPTV services. Users may also receive multicast streams from the Internet.
Cable TV and IPTV
Since the fall 2001 Trinet also administers the cable TV network. Digital TV channels can be received both via the digital cable TV network and using IPTV via the Trinet network.
To be able to watch TV you need a DVB-C (cable) or DVB-T (terrestrial) digibox. Of these two options the DVB-C (cable) version is preferable. Further alternatives are AYY IPTV, Maxinetti IPTV or renting a Maxinetti IP digibox.
Important
Read carefully the instructions on how to configure your network settings so you will not cause problems to other users of the Trinet network.
The Trinet administration uses the newsgroup tky.trinet.info for announcements. The tky.trinet newsgroup is for general discussion and help.