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Connecting

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Steve Percival

UKERNA

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Agenda

• JISC and UKERNA

• JANET and SuperJANET

• JANET Customers

• Connection to Colleges

• Connection Process overview

• What will you get….

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JISC

Joint Information Systems Committee• promotion and co-ordination of ICT

initiatives for FE, HE and Research• funding from all the FE and HE

Funding Councils• content, support and JANET• see www.jisc.ac.uk

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UKERNA

• we manage and develop JANET• company limited by guarantee• owned by the FE and HE Funding

Councils• turnover about £35M with 90 staff• we are ISO 9001 and IiP• see www.ukerna.ac.uk

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JANET – UK network for education and research

• backbone network – SuperJANET• regional networks – MANs• reliable delivery of the Internet• JANET CERT – security and crises• JANET Netsight – on-line net status• Videoconferencing – advice and MCU• see www.ja.net

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SuperJANETlinks

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JANET Customers now

487 FE Colleges

170 HE Institutions

32 Research Council sites

27 other organisations

other organisations include the British Library, learndirect, Met Office and UCAS

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Connectivity to Colleges

Regional Networks

Support from JISC RegionalSupport Centres

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Cannot start without JCUR

InternetInternet JANETJANET

Regional Network Operator

College

Stage 1

Stage 2

Providing a network connection to the College

Installing a router to connect the network connection the College internal local area network (LAN).

Connection Process Overview

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What will you get?

• a connection to JANET at appropriate bandwidth

• a router with firewall option

• access to JISC Services and resources via JANET

• required extra services …

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Further Services

• E-mail using Microsoft Exchange for staff and students - locally installed and managed

• Content Filtering

• Web Hosting – for your own web site

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Time Scales• Phase 1 Colleges commence July• Phase 2 Colleges commence October

Telco’s take typically 60 days from UKERNA order request.

UKERNA can’t proceed without receipt of JCUR

Listed buildings, very remote sites, wayleave issues will extend timescale

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Contact Information

JANET Customer Service

service@janet.ac.uk

JANET www.ja.net

JISC www.jisc.ac.uk

NLN www.nln.ac.uk

UKERNA www.ukerna.ac.uk