Integrated Defense Network

The Integrated Defense Network is a public computer network in the East Asian Federation, specifically the Saikyō Metropolis. It contains public broadband access for anyone everywhere in Saikyō Prefecture, a secure subnetwork for the Federation's Government, and the Federation Self-Defense Forces Capital Region's internal and external communication grid, including controls for the Strategic Defense Grid.

Network
The Network's hardware consists of 15 server farms located strategically throughout the prefecture. The largest of these is the Net Senteo inside of the Federation Center. The Net Senteo contains the most powerful single server in the East Asian Federation, named Yotsuba. Yotsuba contains 128 cores, and 40 petabytes of hard disk storage space, and is capable of 16 million calculations per second.

Features
The network provides free high speed internet access to any and all computers within its range. All citizens of the Federation are entitled to one terrabyte of storage space on the IDN server cloud, which is accessible from any computer in the prefecture. More storage space can be purchased from the Interior Office, which manages the IDN.