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19th APAN Meetings in Bangkok

Network Development in UK and Europe

Malcolm ReadJISC Executive Secretary

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Content

• UK Network

• European Network Policy Group

• International Middleware

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Who Is Allowed To Connect?

• Higher Education Institutions

• Further Education Colleges

• Research Council Establishments

• Schools (collectively or individually)

• Other organisations where there is clear benefit to HE, FE or RC community.

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Current Connections

213 Higher Education

591 Further Education (16+)

40 Research establishments

62 Self funded

74 Local Education Authorities (collections of schools)

980

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The JANET community

• JANET available to 18M+ users in education– primary and

secondary schools

– higher and further education

– lifelong learning programmes

schools

HE/FE

ACL

Relative sizes of sectors: from funding body statistics on staff & student numbers

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Education networks

10 regional networks144 local education authority networksScottish Schools Digital

Network– built over SuperJANET in Scotland– 32 local authority networksLifelong Learning Network Wales – attached to SuperJANET in Cardiff– 22 unitary authority networks

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The Dawn of JANET

Late 1970’

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RegionalResearchNetworks

1984

JANET BornX.25 networkServing 50

Sites @9.6kbit/s

Late 1980’

sX.25 network

2Mbit/s backbone64kbit/s access

200 sites

Research & HE

Early 1990’

sX.25 network

8Mbit/s backbone2Mbit/s access

Early 1991

JANET IP Pilot(over X.25)

Within 10 monthsIP traffic dominated

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JANET comes of age

1992

SuperJANET

34Mbit/s &SMDS

network

1995

SuperJANET IIIP over ATM155Mbit/s &

34Mbit/sBackbone

MANs created

Late 1990’

sSuperJANET IIIGeneral b/w

upgrade

More MANs created

2001SuperJANET410Gbit/s core155Mbit/s to

2.5Gbit/sLinks to MANs

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Schools NetworksConnected

2006

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JANET Coverage

• 11 RNs in England • 5 RNs in Scotland• 2 RNs in Wales• 1 RN in Northern

Ireland

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MaNAP

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European Networking Policy Group

• founded in 1995• a forum for national funding authorities • aim: to promote high-quality research

networking in Europe• helped establish funding model for GEANT • works closely with European Commission,

DANTE, TERENA

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ENPG: Issues of current interest

• continued funding of pan-European research networks: GEANT 1, GN2, FP7

• co-ordination between national and European-funded programmes

• implications of new technological developments: grids, middleware, optical networking

• wider international connectivity • implications of new applications: digital libraries

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Global Inter-working of National Authentication

Schemes• Most schemes (‘federations of trust’) are

limited to one country• The network peering model is relevant to

extending coverage• Set of criteria need to judge whether to

accept a ‘candidate’ federation• Aim: to provide an international authentication

and authorisation layer to support the Internet