JANET: Services and Benefits for STEM Subjects
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JANET
Services and benefits for STEM (and other !) subjects
David SalmonStrategic Technologies DivisionJANET(UK)
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Topics
• JANET as a successful shared service
• JANET Network
• Services• Data transmission (IP & Lightpath)• Videoconferencing• Network access & roaming• UK Access Management Federation
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JANET Shared Service• Formed 1984
• Merged from Research Council Networks• Services to Universities and Research Councils
• Community growth• University sector expands• Further Education joins• Schools networks connect
• Via regional aggregation networks
• Now serving a community of potentially 18 Million users
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Shared Service Awards
• 2007 - Winner• e-Government National Awards
• 2008 - Winner• GC Awards for Innovation
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JANET Network Services• Connecting your organisation to the rest of
the world• Now a “mission critical” requirement for most
organisations• Unthinkable to be without it
• Enable Communications for• Teaching• Research• Collaboration• Management
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YHMAN
Dublin (HEANET)
NIRAN
C&NLMAN
UHIFaTMAN
AbMAN
Clydenet
EaStMAN
NorMAN
NNW
TVN LMN
EastNetMidMAN
LeNSE
WREN
SWERN
Kentish MAN
EMMAN
Bristol
Glasgow
Reading
Warrington Leeds
LondonT-City T-House
JANET
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JANET IP service• High Quality
• Reliability, Availability, Resilience, Capacity
• National & Regional infrastructures are multiply connected• Can tolerate failures without service disruption• Option at organisation level (chargeable)
• High Capacity• 40Gbit/sec core – 100Gbit/s planned in parts• Universities typically connect at 1Gbit/sec or more
• Well connected nationally & internationally to commercial and other Research and Education networks
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JANET Lightpath
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JANET Lightpath• Dedicated network capacity for demanding
projects• Typically high capacity point-to-point network
connections• Separate to standard JANET IP service• Mutual isolation of services – prevents
disruption• Enable national and international
collaboration where this type of service is needed
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Science and Technology Facilities CouncilRutherford Appleton Laboratory
Large Hadron Collider - CERN
UK Particle Physics2 * 10Gbit/s Lightpaths to CERN
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Linking Radio-Telescopes
Lovell TelescopeJodrell Bank
2 * 1Gbit/s to NL
European eVLBI Network
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Videconferencing
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Videoconferencing Benefits• More efficient and effective
collaboration and interaction• Increase scope for national and
international collaboration• Reduce travel time and cost• Contribute to greater energy efficiency
(carbon footprint)• Complements face-to-face meetings
and interaction
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Videoconferencing uses
• Meetings
• Teaching & Learning
• Interviews
• Research Collaboration
• Support for live events and conferences
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Teaching
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Access Grid
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JANET Videoconferencing• Centrally managed service• Book & schedule meetings & conferences• Endpoint registration
• A/V suites, individual desktops
• Quality assurance• periodic endpoint tests – Audio, Video
• Supports• mediation between multiple technologies
• H.323, H.320, SIP, AccessGRID, Evo, Cisco Telepresence
• High Definition Video (HD)
• Session recording and streaming
• Desktop to desktop “on-demand” (no prior booking)
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Eduroam
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Eduroam• Roaming – obtaining network access at visited
locations• Typically wireless access (but can be wired)• Laptop, smart-phone, net-book…
• Visitors get easy, authenticated access on your campus.• No need for special guest accounts
• Your staff and students get the same when they visit other campuses
• Easy to keep connected and communicating for study, collaboration etc
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eduroam
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Supporting Eduroam• Both sites must support the service
• Provide an identity service for their own staff• Provide a referral service to allow visitors identities
to be checked with their home site
• Support and advice is available• Some organisations are now considering
making all campus wireless access via eduroam – one service for both staff and visitors
• See it in action on the JANET stand
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UK Access Management Federation
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UK Access Management Federation
• JISC & BECTA provide the service
• JANET(UK) is Federation Operator
• Aim: Simplify access to resources• Staff, Students• Avoid multiple account, identities and
passwords• “single sign-on” – one identity and
password• Web based mechanism
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A selection of Service Providers
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Membership
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UK federation• Organisation
• Registers people• Implements “identity provision” service
• Service provider• Access to resources• Identity checking function
• Central Infrastructure/service• Mediates interactions between parties• End-users, Identity providers, Service providers
• Developments in hand to take this concept beyond just web-based applications and resources
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Summary• JANET provides a pervasive, high-quality,
high-capacity network• JANET IP service• JANET Lightpath
• Videoconferencing services• Roaming• UK Access Management Federation• All these contribute in their own way to
organisations’ efficiency and effectiveness
• Looking ahead…
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Future Requirements for JANET
• SIX project
• Further Information• www.ja.net/development/six.html
• Network managers consultation this Thursday
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