JANET News

Following the completion of a successful network trial last year, a second trial has just been completed of 100Gbit/s optical transmission circuit operation over the JANET core network.

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Following investigations into LLU conducted during 2009, a number of case studies and technical reviews are now available.

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JANET(UK) has initiated work to investigative activities relating to IF-MAP.

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Each year JANET(UK) participates in the University of Southampton’s MSc course Group Design Project programme. This year students on the course were set the task of prototyping a graphical interface to the log files of the JANET Roaming Service.

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JANET(UK) has completed a review of JANET videoconferencing services.

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With the growing use of the JANET Lightpath service and an emerging requirement for bandwidth on demand, JANET(UK) will soon be launching a number of activities to gain direct experience of control plane technologies and dynamic network circuit provisioning software. A test-bed will be created and the results used to inform future network service developments.

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JANET is currently initiating standards work to take federated identity management to applications beyond the web such as e-mail, instant messaging, file sharing, or remote computing.

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JANET(UK) has completed a review of its strategy around ‘mobile broadband’, which we interpret principally as wireless connectivity when off campus.

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After a successful reprocurement JANETtxt will offer even better functionality at a lower price of 4.0 pence per text.

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