AZSCIENCENET

The AzScienceNet network had progressed through the following phases of development:

The first data transmission network, known as the Academicset network, was established in the 1980s of the previous century to connect Republic Computing Center using x25 technologies.
The founding of the Azerbaijan Gateway of EARN (European Academic & Research Network-European Science and Research Network) organization at the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS marked the beginning of the Republic of Azerbaijan's Internet network development.
Several ministries, state bodies, and ANAS institutions and organizations were able to use the services of the "Sovam teleport," "EARN," "BİTNET," "RELCOM," and "İASNET" international computer networks thanks to the establishment of the Azerbaijan station of the email service in 1991, which connected to the "Sovam Teleport" network for the first time in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Based on TCP/IP technologies, the AzScienceNet network's first gateway to Azerbaijan was established in 1991. It connected to the global internet network and included local networks from the Presidium of ANAS and Institute of Information Technology.
In 1995, the AzScienceNet network's second gateway to Azerbaijan was established within the ANAS main corpus. The Republic's greatest computer network infrastructure started to function when contact was established over the phone line that ran directly between the first and second gateways.

Picture 1. AzScienceNet network infrastructure

The first website in the Republic of Azerbaijan was created in 1995 at Institute of Information Technology of ANAS under the name www.ab.az and accommodated in the servers of AzScienceNet network.
www.ab.az website re-processed in accordance with information space, the scope, content and infrastructure that had covered, was called www.science.az (www.elm.az, www.nauka.az) portal and constantly was put into operation on September 24, 2003

AzScienceNet current service area