1. Supporting further and higher education 19th APAN Meetings in Bangkok Network Development in UK and Europe Malcolm Read JISC Executive Secretary

2. Supporting further and higher education Content UK Network European Network Policy Group International Middleware

3. Supporting further and higher education 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.

4. Supporting further and higher education Current Connections 213Higher Education 591Further Education (16+) 40Research establishments 62Self funded 74Local Education Authorities (collections of schools) 980

5. Supporting further and higher education The JANET community JANET available to 18M+ users in education –primary and secondary schools –higher and further education –lifelong learning programmes schoolsHE/FE ACL Relative sizes of sectors: from funding body statistics on staff & student numbers

6. Supporting further and higher education Education networks 10 regional networks 144 local education authority networks Scottish Schools Digital Network – built over SuperJANET in Scotland – 32 local authority networks Lifelong Learning Network Wales – attached to SuperJANET in Cardiff – 22 unitary authority networks

7. Supporting further and higher education The Dawn of JANET Late 1970’s Regional Research Networks 1984 JANET Born X.25 network Serving 50 Sites @9.6kbit/s Late 1980’s X.25 network 2Mbit/s backbone 64kbit/s access 200 sites Research & HE Early 1990’s X.25 network 8Mbit/s backbone 2Mbit/s access Early 1991 JANET IP Pilot (over X.25) Within 10 months IP traffic dominated

8. Supporting further and higher education JANET comes of age 1992 SuperJANET 34Mbit/s & SMDS network 1995 SuperJANET II IP over ATM 155Mbit/s & 34Mbit/s Backbone MANs created Late 1990’s SuperJANET III General b/w upgrade More MANs created 2001 SuperJANET4 10Gbit/s core 155Mbit/s to 2.5Gbit/s Links to MANs Further Education Connected Schools Networks Connected 2006 SuperJANET5

9. Supporting further and higher education TBytes JANET Usage Month SJ4 Summer break

10. Supporting further and higher education Availability to Institutions

11. Supporting further and higher education JANET Coverage 11 RNs in England 5 RNs in Scotland 2 RNs in Wales 1 RN in Northern Ireland

12. Private peers Co-lo Off net JANET External Connectivity MaNAP GlasgowEdinburgh Leeds Manchester LondonReading Portsmout h Bristol Co-lo LINX Global internet Europe research CERNET HEANET Co-lo

13. Supporting further and higher education TBytes International Usage

14. Supporting further and higher education 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

15. Supporting further and higher education 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

16. Supporting further and higher education 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