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Editorial

There are a number of firsts, upgrades and improvements in this quarter's report. JANET has become the first European National Research and Education Network to install 40Gbit/s channel technology: the first phase of the 40Gbit/s upgrade was completed by the end of September as planned. Connections from two external gateways in Docklands to Reading and London core locations are now running at 40Gbit/s. The second phase of the upgrade is expected to be completed by the end of January 2009.

Meanwhile, for example, the first three Regional Networks - AbMAN, KentishMAN and FaTMAN -have been transitioned to the new Netsight system, with another three to follow within two weeks of this report; and development of the JANET Roaming service has included a programme to enable use of IPv6 with the service, which is now complete.

As our users' expectations evolve constantly, so JANET works hard to evolve ahead of them.