1. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 Connecting Specialist Colleges To JANET Steve Percival UKERNA

2. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 Agenda JISC and UKERNA JANET and SuperJANET JANET Customers Connection to Colleges Connection Process overview What will you get….

3. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 JISC Joint Information Systems Committee promotion and co-ordination of ICT initiatives for FE, HE and Research funding from all the FE and HE Funding Councils content, support and JANET see www.jisc.ac.ukwww.jisc.ac.uk

4. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 UKERNA we manage and develop JANET company limited by guarantee owned by the FE and HE Funding Councils turnover about £35M with 90 staff we are ISO 9001 and IiP see www.ukerna.ac.ukwww.ukerna.ac.uk

5. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 JANET – UK network for education and research backbone network – SuperJANET regional networks – MANs reliable delivery of the Internet JANET CERT – security and crises JANET Netsight – on-line net status Videoconferencing – advice and MCU see www.ja.netwww.ja.net

6. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 SuperJANET links www

7. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 JANET Customers now 487FE Colleges 170HE Institutions 32Research Council sites 27other organisations other organisations include the British Library, learndirect, Met Office and UCAS

8. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 Connectivity to Colleges Regional Networks Support from JISC Regional Support Centres JANET

9. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 Cannot start without JCUR Providing a network connection to the College Installing a router to connect the network connection the College internal local area network (LAN). Connection Process Overview

10. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 What will you get? a connection to JANET at appropriate bandwidth a router with firewall option access to JISC Services and resources via JANET required extra services …

11. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 Further Services E-mail using Microsoft Exchange for staff and students - locally installed and managed Content Filtering Web Hosting – for your own web site

12. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 Time Scales Phase 1 Collegescommence July Phase 2 Collegescommence October Telco’s take typically 60 days from UKERNA order request. UKERNA can’t proceed without receipt of JCUR Listed buildings, very remote sites, wayleave issues will extend timescale

13. Specialist Colleges Connecting to JANET © JNT Association 2003 Contact Information JANET Customer Service service@janet.ac.uk JANET www.ja.netwww.ja.net JISC www.jisc.ac.ukwww.jisc.ac.uk NLNwww.nln.ac.ukwww.nln.ac.uk UKERNA www.ukerna.ac.ukwww.ukerna.ac.uk