EUnet is an Internet service provider

Internet service provider

An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...

 from Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. The full name of the company that has a franchise for the EUnet brand is YUnet International d.o.o.

History

ЕUnet Yugoslavia was established in 1995 as a signer of the franchise

Franchising

Franchising is the practice of using another firm's successful business model. The word 'franchise' is of anglo-French derivation - from franc- meaning free, and is used both as a noun and as a verb....

 with EUnet International CS Amsterdam

EUnet

The roots of EUnet go back to 1982 and the first international UUCP connections. From a very loose collaboration of individual sites under the auspices of the EUUG , it evolved to the fully commercial entity EUnet International Ltd.In April 1998 the company was sold to Qwest Communications...

, then the largest Internet provider in Europe. The first international Internet link in Serbia, with 2 Mbps capacity, was launched in 1996, thus making ЕUnet the first commercial Internet service provider in Yugoslavia.

EUnet d.o.o. was formed in 1997 as a special team responsible for the development of business software, hosting services and IT solutions. This additionally reinforced the company, which started introducing new services.

At a brand

Brand

The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers."...

 competition organised in 2007 by the international institution Superbrands

Superbrands

The Superbrands organization is an independent arbiter on branding. Its membership programmes pay tribute to the world's leading brands, as selected by experts and consumers. The organization also publishes a series of brand-focused books and publications...

, ЕUnet got the superbrand status for Serbia within the category of Digital media and Internet. EUnet was the only provider in Serbia that received such a status.

Services

ЕUnet provides connectivity services via ADSL and dial up technologies, through a rented link of 1Gbps capacity, as well as services of Internet domain registration and web hosting, renting dedicated servers and server collocation. The company's headquarters is located in Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 (Dorćol

Dorcol

Dorćol is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad.- Location :Dorćol begins already some 700 meters north of Terazije, the central square of Belgrade...

), whereas the central EUnet node is in New Belgrade, in Sava Centre. The connection from Sava Centre is redundant and secured with two independent lines.

In 2007, EUnet provided its services to more than 200,000 personal clients and over 15,000 business clients. EUnet hosts more than 6,500 Websites on its servers.