1. e-Infrastructure and Janet6 review and update Bob Day Chief Technology Officer Bob.Day@ja.net

2. Janet6 backbone progress dark fibre contract – SSE Telecoms – signed end July 2012 optical equipment contract – Ciena – signed early September 2012 roll-out – fibre footprint and points-of-presence – optical equipment final design and build – IP and Lightpath equipment requirements – Janet NOC staffing and process changes communications – overview publications – online briefings

3. e-Infrastructure additions funding currently available – £10m contribution to “day 1” backbone – £12m to extend backbone to academic research sites of strategic importance and not already attached via dark-fibre – £4m to enable industrial access to and use of e-infrastructure additional backbone sites – In agreement with the Research Councils – genomics: Norwich and Hinxton campuses – meteorology: Exeter (UK Met Office) – “Thames Valley” triangle... RAL/Oxford/Reading – biomedicine: London (Francis Crick Institute) Janet Aurora dark-fibre test-bed – continuation and re-configuration beyond October 2013

4. e-Infrastructure business planning e-Infrastructure Leadership Council – early BIS draft under discussion – five-year plan (2012-2017) funding for facilities to be used by academe & industry... – software and algorithms – cybersecurity, authentication, resilience – high-capacity communications – HPC hardware (ARCHER, PRACE) – storage resources – skills development, knowledge transfer – data preservation Council response to date...

5. Use of remaining existing funding? ~£3m from backbone extension + £4m for industrial access academic – further expansion of backbone footprint? – [individual HEI campus network upgrades?] industrial – financial support to piloting industrial use of resources on Janet? link to regional and national HPC? link to TSB Catapult Centres? – resolution of state-aid and other regulatory issues both – AAI: productisation & further development of Moonshot technology? – higher IA facilities for commercial data? – skills development for effective use of high-performance networks?

6. Janet, Lumen House Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford Didcot, Oxfordshire t: +44 (0) 1235 822200 f: +44 (0) 1235 822399 e: Service@ja.net Discussion