This document provides an overview and update on the Janet network and services. It discusses Janet's role as the national research and education network for the UK, its funding sources, customer base, and network infrastructure. It also summarizes recent and upcoming developments for several Janet services, including regional networks, video conferencing, telephony, cloud services, and wireless access through eduroam.

1. Janet Update
Guy Sudron
Customer Engagement Manager Southeast
Janet
guy.sudron@ja.net

2. • Ensure customer expectations are exceeded.
• Ensure that we listen to the views and requirements of the
customer.
• Include the voice of the customer in service development and
review.
• Clarify the views of the customer.
• Identify key and underlying issues.
• Identify new services to be provided for customers.
• Absolutely NOT sales! Janet works on your behalf as an
‘intelligent customer’ and trusted partner.
Why Customer Engagement?

3. • Not-for-profit company
• Part of the Jisc family
• New Company - Jisc Collections and Janet Ltd.
• UK’s National Research and Education Network provider
(NREN), a private network
• Headquarters at Harwell Campus in Didcot, Oxfordshire
• administration, management, customer service, CSIRT, development
activities
• approximately 120 staff
• Network Operations Centre in London
• approximately 20 staff
• home based
• approximately15 staff
Janet - the basic facts

4. • Funded by the Funding Councils for HE and FE in the
UK via Jisc
• Research Council funding via Jisc
• Network charging – HE only
• Funded by other organisations
– DfE (schools and sixth form colleges)
• Income from customer connections
– European Organisations
– British Library
– NIBSC
– Commercials
Janet Funding

5. Customers of Janet
Local
Authorities/
Schools
HE/FE
Adult
Relative sizes of sectors: from
funding body statistics on staff &
student numbers
18 million possible
users of JANET.
ConnectionsUsers
Area Sites
Higher Education 212
Further Education 520
Local Authority 101
Self-funded 73
Research Council 38
Charity / Funders 25
969

6. • upgrade of UK national backbone
– tuned to the needs of data-intensive research
– procured long-term (10-15 year) fibre leases and equipment
– in-house operation (Janet NOC)
– Replaced the SuperJANET5 backbone during 2013
• upgrades to regional networks
– systematic review of options aligned to procurement cycles
1. in-house operation by Janet NOC
2. use a public-sector shared-service network
• to:
- deliver a highly reliable and secure network
- provide a network that is flexible in meeting future demand
- provide a network that is more agile in dealing with change
Janet 6

7. Fibre Network
Normal rules apply:
•Core ladder
•Regional networks
have 2 uplinks
•Collector arcs &
spurs
4 types of PoP
•Core
•Transmission
•ILA
•RNEP

8. Pathe News
Akamai
Virgin Radio
Bogons
Logicalis UK
Pipex
BBC
Datahop
InTechnology
INUK
RM Education
LINX multicast
NHS
Redstone
Google
NetrinoUK
Gamma
Getronics
London
2
Getronics
aql Janet 3G
VT Group
Akamai
Google
Edge-IX
Manc’r
MCIX
VM
IXManchester
Google
Limelight
Limelight
InTechnology
NHS
Capacity: 709Gbit/s
Akamai
BTnet
Gamma
Exa Net
BBC 10Gbit/s
1Gbit/s
100Gbit/s
Init7 London
1
Amazon
Microsoft
Synetrix
TMnet
External
Peers

9. Global Transit Usage/Cost

10. King Richard III
Mbit/s

11. Limelight peering during the Olympics
Gbit/s

12. Limelight peering during the Olympics
Gbit/s

13. Regional Network

14. • Network due for re-procurement
• Plan to reduce costs to end sites
• Janet will be updating customers and inviting input post-
summer 2014
Regional Network Developments

15. Recent Developments

16. • Service is being re-invented as ‘v-scene’
• Replacement for the current booking service with improved
user interface and ease of use
• Replacement desktop client
• Improved interoperability with a variety of standards based
clients (not Skype unfortunately)
JanetVideo Conferencing Service

17. • Dynamic Purchasing Framework
• One stop shop telephony purchasing service
• Customers can purchase anything telephony related
• CPE – PBX and handsets
• Hosted Services
• SIP Trunks and ISDN
• Mobiles
• etc etc…..
• The more services purchased the greater the savings - up to 50%
• Reduce procurement time by up to 2 months as Janet stepped
through OJEU processes
• All suppliers will have to meet various financial and technical
requirements
Online briefing – Thursday 15th
, 12.30pm, www.ja.net/events
Janet Telephony

18. • Move telephony traffic onto Janet
– SIPTrunking
– Flexibility
– Reduced cost (50%+)
– Note *keep some ISDN for resilience!
• Hosted PBX – move intelligence to core
– Flexibility, new starters and new sites….
– Reduce Cost
• Remove organisational call charges
– Landlines + Mobiles from one supplier = intra call cost
A couple of scenarios

19. • A service which facilitates the sending and receiving of SMS
text messages to and from relevant groups and individuals at a
competitive price
• Pay per text only service for any Janet community
organisations.
• Web based service
• No annual licence fee
• Recently re-procured with lower cost per text, down to 3.7p
SMS - Janet txt

20. • Funding from BIS
• Covers installation and first years annual rental
• Organisation liable for future annual charges
• Not applicable toVIth Form, just FE
• Not to late to register your interest
• Register your interest by emailing Neil Shewry
(neil.shewry@ja.net)
Second Network Connection Offer

21. • ‘dropbox’ type service
• Out for procurement, will be a dynamic procurement system
• Janet imposing technical and financial entry requirements
• Basic service (e.g. dropbox type service) plus additional
security measures including EEA storage, encryption,
federated access
Sync n Share

22. • Janet has now peered with AWS
– Provides managed bandwidth for Janet customers connecting to AWS
• Microsoft Azure imminent
• Office 365 and Google Apps agreements
• Data archiving framework (Arkivum)
Cloud Services

23. • Agreement with ‘The Cloud’
• Allows public, unauthenticated access to the internet over
Janet
• Co-branding, filtering, on site router
Public Access over Janet

24. Other Janet Services

25. • Business continuity
– resilient network connectivity
• Security
– advice before and when things get tough
– services to help protect the customer site
• Savings through frameworks
– network equipment, videoconferencing, telecommunications
• Education and research community collaboration
• Advice and support for customers’ strategic direction
• Services that customers do not wish to run themselves
– third party suppliers connected to Janet
– cloud services via the Janet Brokerage
How we might be used

26. Primary & Secondary Nameservers
Primary:
•Free to Janet Primary connected
organisations
•Provides a good basic DNS
service and easy and quick to
setup
• “Self service” administration
web portal or full support from
Janet
Secondary:
•Free to Janet connected
organisations
• Provides an off-site
nameserver as a backup to
the PNS service
• Is available to all
organisations .ac.uk
domains
• One telephone call sets
the service up.

27. eduroam (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access
service developed for the international research and education community.

28. Benefits for your organisation

29. • Single wireless network on campus
• Improved student and staff experience
• Minimisation of the administrative workload of managing user
and guest accounts
• Reduction of visits to service desk by students, staff and
visitors
Benefits for your organisation

30. • Users use their familiar username and password, regardless of
location
• Once their device has connected to eduroam once, it will
connect everytime wherever eduroam is available
• You might not trust the device but you can trust the
authentication – you can then decide what services to offer
over the wireless network
• Eduroam is device agnostic – it’s standards based so will work
with any student device that supports wireless
• Students & staff can visit any location that offers eduroam
and have securely authenticated wifi access
Benefits for students & staff

31. Janet’s vision for eduroam
• Throughout education
• Public spaces e.g. museums and public libraries
• Public transport – trials have been conducted on the
greyhound buses
• City wide – e.g. Portsmouth Connected City project

32. Janet Support
• Don’t forget, we can assist in other ways:
• Janet training courses – www.ja.net/training
• Janet Community website – community.ja.net
• Janet regional events
• Janet online briefings
• Janet Networkshop – networkshop.ja.net
– 31/03 to 02/04 2015 in Exeter

33. Thank you
Guy Sudron
Customer Engagement Manager Southeast
Janet
guy.sudron@ja.net