JANET News

eduroam users can now more easily locate eduroam-enabled sites thanks to a new app for the iPhone and iPad. The app ‘eduroam companion’ helps users to locate their nearest eduroam point by visualising the central database of eduroam-enabled facilities on a map and provides information that the user will need in order to connect to [...]

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Janet is trialling eduroam on public transport. The pilot, in conjunction with Greyhound Coaches offers eduroam on three routes in the UK. The eduroam enabled Greyhound coach routes are: London – Glasgow London – Bournemouth via Southampton and Portsmouth Cardiff – Swansea This pilot aims to address the needs of students and staff for mobile broadband [...]

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Janet will connect National Virtual Incubator (NVI) sites across the UK in the next stage of Cisco’s British Innovation Gateway (BIG) initiative. At an event on the 10th November 2011, Prime Minister, David Cameron cited Cisco’s BIG initiative – and specifically the NVI as a significant example of success in the Government’s goal to drive [...]

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The first phase of research for the next generation of the Janet backbone is now underway.  A preliminary market investigation has begun to explore how suppliers respond to the requirements for the new Janet backbone network – the project to do this is called Janet6.

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Pioneering technology which delivers pictures 16 times sharper than standard High Definition (HD), powered by JANET and international advanced research networks, has been demonstrated this month at the IBC broadcast show in Amsterdam. The Super Hi-Vision (SHV) project, originally developed by NHK in Japan, showed pictures transmitted from the BBC in London across JANET, GÉANT [...]

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JANET staff are presenting a number of talks at the TERENA annual conference for European research and education networks.

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JANET has delivered a technical first for UK research and education with the switch of its production traffic to 100Gbit/s.

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Learning and research on the move has just become much easier as JANET(UK) is pleased to announce the launch of its new high capacity data service for education institutions and research organisations, JANET 3G.

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In an area that is fast growing but as yet has no standards and no set model of delivery, the new JANET brokerage will promote interoperability and bring clarity and coherence.

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An increasing number of academic and support staff are living their life on the move – whether that’s on campus or further afield. The new JANET 3G service for eduroam provides a flexible range of data-only SIM packages that are specifically designed to meet the needs of the academic and research communities.

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