This document provides an agenda and information for a Tech 2Tech event at Durham discussing Jisc's new Janet access infrastructure. The agenda includes welcome remarks, presentations on the current and new Janet architectures, member experiences, and future Janet services. It is aimed at providing information on the network access program, opportunities to ask questions, and discussing challenges of the future. Working with partner Ciena, the new infrastructure aims to standardize equipment, management, and reduce costs while improving reliability and provisioning speeds. The regions of South, South West, East Midlands, West Midlands and London have started transitioning to the new infrastructure as existing regional contracts expire over the next 3-4 years.

1. WELCOME
Tech 2Tech, Durham

2. Housekeeping
»We will send a feedback survey by e-mail after the event.

3. Tech 2Tech Programme
10:30 Welcome & introduction Jeremy Sharp, Jisc
10:45 The Janet architecture & new Janet
access infrastructure
James Blessing & Rob Evans, Jisc
11:15 Building & preparing for the new
Janet access infrastructure
Neil Shewry, Jisc
11:40 Member experiences • Dr Lydia Heck, Durham University, The DiRAC project
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Member experiences • Michael Lancastle, Newcastle University, Intersite connectivity – Open Mic session.
• David Conway, University of Sunderland, Cloud migration and infrastructure review.
14:00 Future services on Janet James Blessing, Tim Chown, Rob Evans, Jisc
14:45 Open discussion: utilization of Janet
15:15 Closing comments
15:30 Close & refreshments

4. The aims of today
1. To provide information on the network access
programme
2. An opportunity to ask questions
3. To discuss and share challenges of the future
Any questions / points please ask
And / or
Write them on a post-it and stick on one of the flipcharts

5. Working with Ciena
Ciena are our equipment partner

6. A new Janet Access Infrastructure
Jeremy Sharp, Janet Infrastructure Director

7. Current Janet Architecture
London
East 2
London
Bristol
South
South West
PSBA
Wales
Thames
Valley
KPSN
Kent
London
East 1
NottinghamBirmingham
West
Midlands
Yorkshire &
Humberside
Manchester
North WestCumbria
Northern
Ireland
Glasgow
South East
Scotland
North East
Scotland
South West
Scotland
North East
East
Midlands
EastERN
London
West
Core PoP (Point of Presence) Regional network Transmission site
Leeds
JANET6 BACKBONE OVERVIEW – Oct 2015
14-May-2015 v06 / jas
London
Docklands
Regional infrastructure
National (UK) backbone
shared
datacentres
Global
Internet
GÉANT peerings &
gateways
Access layer
global
NRENs

8. A new Janet Access Infrastructure
Overall aim: to reduce complexity of Janet access infrastructure,
including:
Provide architectural coherence across the whole of the
network
> Standardise equipment
> Overarching management platform
> Some estate rationalisation
> More use of fibre
– Including future Openreach products
– Increase self-provisioning
Reduce capital and recurrent costs
> Consolidate the supply base & reduce the cycle of re-
procuring regional network telco contracts every 4-6 years
Improve reliability of the Janet service
Increase speed of connection provisioning (installation and
upgrade)
whatwewantwherewearenow
Regional infrastructure
National (UK) backbone
Access layer
National (UK) backbone
Access layer

9. Building the new Janet Access Infrastructure
> Components:
> Regulated Openreach products (EAD, OSA,OSA Filter Connect, Exchange space)
> Other telco fibre & col-lo: DPS framework
> Optical/Ethernet switching equipment, support services: New Ciena framework
> Other transmission requirements: New Janet telco framework
> New access infrastructure introduced as existing regional network contractual
arrangements expire over next 3-4 years.
> Regions started:
> South
> SouthWest
> East Midlands
> West Midlands
> London

10. Netsight 3
»A new Netsight has been developed
»Netsight 3
› beta launch 1 July
› General availability launch 28 July
› Netsight 2 closure 27 September
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/netsight3
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11. jisc.ac.uk
Questions
Jeremy Sharp
Janet Infrastructure Director
Jeremy.Sharp@jisc.ac.uk