In this issue:

News

NEW Certificate Service is a great success!

Launched in November 2009, the new JANET Certificate service has now registered over 1000 certificates, to find out more: CLICK HERE

New member joins Research Support Unit

We are pleased to announce that in January 2010 Warren Matthews joined JANET(UK) as a Research Support Coordinator. Before joining JANET(UK), Warren worked at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he helped support the campus network and the Southern Crossroads gigapop (which provides connectivity to Internet2 and NLR for most of the universities in the south-eastern United States).

Whilst at JANET he will be involved in supporting researchers using JANET, and identify requirements for the next upgrade of the JANET network. He will also be investigating Control Plane technology and developing a testbed for dynamic network allocation.


Events

Optical Event

The JANET(UK) Optical Event will be running on Monday 8th February, in London.
 
The event aims to give a flavour of current and future developments in optical networking including: advanced optical infrastructures, dynamic optical networking, optical packet integration and advancements in high transmission rates. To view the programme CLICK HERE

Research Requirements

JANET(UK) wishes to bring together a representative cross-section of the UK research community at a workshop to discuss research-driven requirements for the JANET network with a forward-look over the next decade. For further details, please
CLICK HERE

Networkshop 38 - University of Manchester

Booking for JANET(UK)s annual conference, Networkshop has been open since the end
of 2009 and places are booking fast!

Whether you’re interested in exploring the use of networks in Polar Regions, the challenges faced by 802.1X or network requirements for Handheld Devices, you will find them all at Networkshop! This year we have even got a new session - Rapid Fire – Hints, Tips & Secrets (see above)

To ensure you reserve your place, and to find
out more, CLICK HERE

Opportunities

Networkshop - 10 minutes of fame!

Can you get your point across in 10 minutes with a quick snappy presentation? If the answer is yes then why not take part in a new ‘quick-fire’ session at JANET(UK)s annual event, Networkshop.

The session will involve up to 7 participants with a 10 minute slot each. This open floor session gives participants the opportunity to give a quick concise presentation to share any hints, tips and/or secrets they may have on ANY aspect of network management.

Your idea could be adopted by the audience back on their home campus network, so grab your moment of fame! For further information CLICK HERE

The best hint or tip, voted by the
audience, will receive £50 worth
of Amazon Vouchers!


Project Updates

Documents

JANET(UK) has recently published the
second edition of its Research Booklet with details on how JANET supports research projects. It includes a range of services
from the provision of Lightpaths for end to
end connectivity during important projects
to the Aurora dark fibre network, a Dark
Fibre platform for Photonics Research.

The booklet also covers some of the less obvious services, which are likely to be of particular interest to the research community.
For further information please CLICK HERE

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