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Connecting Specialist Colleges To JANET. Steve Percival UKERNA. Agenda. JISC and UKERNA JANET and SuperJANET JANET Customers Connection to Colleges Connection Process overview What will you get…. JISC. Joint Information Systems Committee
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Connecting Specialist Colleges To JANET Steve Percival UKERNA
Agenda • JISC and UKERNA • JANET and SuperJANET • JANET Customers • Connection to Colleges • Connection Process overview • What will you get….
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
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 • seewww.ukerna.ac.uk
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
www SuperJANET links
JANET Customers now other organisations include the British Library, learndirect, Met Office and UCAS
JANET Connectivity to Colleges Regional Networks Support from JISC Regional Support Centres
Cannot start without JCUR Connection Process Overview Providing a network connection to the College Installing a router to connect the network connection the College internal local area network (LAN).
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 …
Further Services • E-mail using Microsoft Exchange for staff and students - locally installed and managed • Content Filtering • Web Hosting – for your own web site
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 However Listed buildings, very remote sites, wayleave issues will extend timescale
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