JANET News

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(UK) has been awarded Learning and Development Provider Accreditation by the prestigious IITT for its range of training courses. Described as ‘entirely worthy’ of the accreditation by the IITT, the award demonstrates JANET(UK)’s commitment to maintain the highest of industry training standards and continually develop courses to meet customer needs. The IITT is the leading [...]

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Schools are now able to enjoy cost savings and enhanced online security as the benefits of JANET Certificate Service are extended to local and unitary authorities. SSL certificates for schools, which normally cost £90 or more, are currently available FREE to the JANET community, with local authorities and RBCs now able to make certificate requests [...]

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Following a successful launch in April this year, JANET 3G has now gone live! From 22nd July eduroam enabled education and research organisations can access this new high capacity data service from a dedicated on-line portal.

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PageOne Communications, who manage the JANET txt service, today announced the launch of its new SMS service for Microsoft Outlook, available to JANET txt customers. PageOne’s Outlook SMS service provides a seamless method of sending and receiving SMS messages directly from Microsoft Outlook email software. Developed specifically for the education community, JANET txt is a low [...]

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Local or Unitary Authorities can now benefit from a range of server certificates, issued by one of the world’s largest certification authorities: Comodo CA, through JANET Certificate Service,

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JANET Videoconferencing will play a key role in a new project for schools, led by actor Colin McFarlane, which helps school pupils to explore their family trees and cultural backgrounds.

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Upgrades to the JANET Videoconferencing Service now allow more control over live conferences and increase both scope and convenience for guests and users, without compromising the security of conferences.

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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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Building on the success of the operational, resilient gateway between JANET and N3, JANET(UK) and the NHS are now focusing on the potential extra benefits that the gateway can provide.

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