RELATED PROJECTS

• GEANT QoS. GEANT is the Pan-European network for research and education, which is planned, built and managed by DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe). Current GEANT QoS services include IP Premium, Best Effort and Less-than-Best Effort. The QoS services were established on the basis of several earlier projects the most important of which was SEQUIN.

• GEANT2 started on 1 September 2004 with the aim of developing and deploying the seventh generation of the pan-European research and education network, the successor to GÉANT. The project will run for four years. JANET(UK) participates in GEANT2 Service Activity 3 (GN2 SA3) aiming to implement end-to-end IP Premium QoS service across GEANT2 and NRENs which are interested in this activity.

• MB-NG. The Managed Bandwidth Next Generation (MB-NG) project addressed the issues which arise in the sector of high performance inter-Grid networking, including sustained and reliable high performance data replication, end-to-end advanced network services and QoS. The project finished in September 2004.

• Internet2 QoS Working Group. The Internet2 QoS Working Group is the developer of the Scavenger service which is also known as the Less than Best Effort service. The group also explored the IP Premium service and published useful material on Bandwidth Brokering.