Bahnhof

Bahnhof AB is a Swedish Internet service provider. The company was founded in 1994 by writer and blogger Oscar Swartz first independent ISP in Sweden and is now one of the largest ISPs in Sweden. Headquartered in the Kista Science City, a neighborhood in the northwest of Stockholm. Oscar Swartz left the train station in 2004 after internal differences. Since the end of 2007, the company is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. It currently is led by Jon Karlung ( verkställande direktör, CEO).

" Pions White Mountains " Data Center

Station 's biggest data center is the " pions White Mountains " Data Center, located in the ( built in the 1970s for the Swedish government, " atomic bomb proof" ) former civil defense bunker " pions " under 30 meters of rock underneath the park " Vita mountains (White Mountains ) " located in Stockholm's inner city district of Södermalm. This bunker was adapted 2006-2008 under the direction of Albert France- Lanord Architects for use as a data center.

Self-understanding, a political actor

Station meets for years a far beyond Sweden's borders effective political leadership function in the battle for personal protection and civil liberties on the Internet: Station sees itself as " Free Speech Provider", campaigns against government surveillance of electronic media undermines the Swedish Anti- filesharing laws by destroying and intends to overturn retention (as soon as Act) via VPN, the IP addresses of its customers.

In March 2005, the Swedish police confiscated in a business building of the railway station, four servers in the hope of finding out copyrighted material. Station claimed that those servers that were installed in a Network Lab area near the station 's own server farms, are not company owned, but private ownership of employees, and could prove finally that on behalf of Svenska Antipiratbyrån, the Swedish organization to combat copyright infringement that had this police operation causes copyright infringement bezeugendes material had been introduced to these servers.

End of January 2011 gave station announced that they intend to route all their traffic through VPN to (following an EU directive ) to make it impossible for the Swedish Ministry of Justice planned without suspicion retention of traffic data of their clients. Other ISPs want to follow this example.