EditorialWelcome to the Quarterly Report to the Community for August –October 2007. This is the first report following the revamping of the JANET Service Level Agreement; thus the order of sections and the location of some items have been completely revised. The actual contents remain largely the same, reporting on the many different aspects that go to make up the operation of JANET(UK). Two new services make their first appearance here. One is JANET Collaborate, a national collaboration service prototype that was launched in October 2007 at the National Maritime Museum. This is available to all education sectors and will enable teachers and lecturers to find others with similar interests and educational opportunities and live content, including that being delivered via videoconferencing. Meanwhile the seven fibre segments for JANET Aurora have been deployed; it is expected that the Photonics community will begin to install project equipment shortly. The two taken together exemplify the range and diversity of JANET's function within the education and research community: a highly specialised, dedicated fibre infrastructure for researchers to test the next generation of optical equipment for photonics research; and a service that concentrates on the all-important human element, the educators themselves, harnessing the power of JANET for human networking.
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