Rev. Janet Maykus Janet

A project has been started to upgrade all existing JANET links to HEIs to a minimum of 2Mbit/s.
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Bath, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Daresbury, who used to be connected to two other NOCs, are now connected to a single core NOC.
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Traffic to and from the Belfast NOC is being carried using XoT.
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BT now report regularly to JANET(UK) on the performance of the SMDS links during each month.
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BT now report regularly to JANET(UK) on the performance of the SMDS links during each month.
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The SMDS link to ULCC has been 'upgraded' to access class 3 (16Mbit/s) because it was running close to its access class 2 limit and peaking above it occasionally.
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BT promised a Customer Network Management Service (CNMS) in 1994 and this has still not been made available.
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JANET(UK) have been asked to participate in the first trials but these have been put back to early 1996.
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Part of this means that BT are still unable to provide full traffic statistics for the SuperJANET SMDS links.
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BT had planned to do a full SMDS network upgrade on Christmas Day, this was a precursor to the CNMS.
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JANET(UK) has been working to put in place contracts with all of the institutions that provide JANET Connection Points.
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These will either act as full Managed Access Point (MAP) connection points and do all fault reporting for institutions links that they host or will be Points of Presence (PoPs).
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These will either act as full Managed Access Point (MAP) connection points and do all fault reporting for institutions links that they host or will be Points of Presence (PoPs).
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Institutions connected to PoPs will report problems direct to the JANET NOSC at ULCC and not to the point that physically hosts the remote end of their JANET link.
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Operation of the primary name servers for ac.uk continues.

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1.8 Name Registration Service

Operation of the NRS continues.
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Support for character-only terminals will be provided via public access WWW clients (Lynx), which will be available via the TACS service for those who still connect using PADS/X25.
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Work has been done on bringing a White Pages directory service into being during 2Q96.
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The service will initially use X.500 to integrate other White Pages technologies which JANET customers have in use locally.
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JANET(UK) is gradually installing its own radio time signal receivers as opposed to relying on receivers owned by JANET institutions We are grateful to Newcastle and Cambridge Universities for providing access to their receivers during the pilot and continuing access during the full service.
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Most of our receivers use the time signal transmitted by the US DoD NAVSTAR GPS navigational satellites and reports have been seen of Ministry of Defence GPS jamming trials.
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In the quarter to the end of December, 86 reports were received by JANET-CERT and presentations given at two conferences.

There has recently been an increase in computer intrusions at JANET sites.Over the past six months JANET-CERT has received 24 reports where a system has been compromised and root status obtained by the intruder.On six occasions investigations have revealed evidence of a password sniffer.In nearly every case the intrusion had gone unnoticed for several weeks before discovery.
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There have been some instabilities in the BT IBDNS service over the last few months, but BT and DANTE have worked hard to eliminate the problems and the network is now more stable.
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Negotiations to provide two separate paths to the USA, one based on the equivalent of 4*2Mbit/s of capacity and one based on 6*1.5Mbit/s of capacity have been concluded.We expect to have the first in service before the end of January and the second by mid March.
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The access class of the ULCC SMDS connection has been increased from 10 Mbit/s to 16Mbit/s to cope with additional load requirements.

Attempts to further spread the load between the ULCC and Telehouse SMDS links have met with partial failure due to the difficulties a number of campus routers have experienced in dealing with the additional number of routes they were asked to recognise.As a result of this, we have decided that all US access will be concentrated at ULCC and all European access at Telehouse.
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Two of these are concerned with providing a 34Mbit/s IP data interconnection between the National Research Networks (NRNs): a proposal from the PNOs of France, UK, Germany and Italy will interconnect the NRNs of those four countries, while a proposal from Unisource will similarly interconnect the NRNs in the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and NORDUnet.
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Two of these are concerned with providing a 34Mbit/s IP data interconnection between the National Research Networks (NRNs): a proposal from the PNOs of France, UK, Germany and Italy will interconnect the NRNs of those four countries, while a proposal from Unisource will similarly interconnect the NRNs in the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and NORDUnet.
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These two networks will themselves interconnect probably in the UK and in Switzerland, but further planning is required to determine this.Other European NRNs will be able to connect via spurs to one of the two main components.Details of both these proposals are currently being negotiated.

The third component involves the experiments of ATM-based multi- service networking.
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Version 4 of the TACS guide has been issued.

The old GPT based PSPDN system was switched off on 2 January 1996.Users who have not registered to use the new service should contact service@ja.net.
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JANET(UK) is investigating the possibility of providing a news reader service to small sites which do not have the capability to run a full news service.
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To this end a large server has been ordered and will be installed and is expected to be offering a service during 2Q96.

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1.18 JANET Liaison Desk

JANET(UK) has decided that 'JANET Customer Service' is a more appropriate name for the group that provides the service specified under SLA A1.18 'JANET Liaison Desk'.
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Electronic mail for JANET Customer Service should be sent to service@ja.net (X.400: S=service; O=janet; P=uk.ac; C=gb;) however mail sent to previous addresses will be redirected.Please note that the GEC 4000 system is no longer being used to host their mail service and the explicit address on the GEC should not be used.

JANET Customer Service provides a primary point of contact for all enquiries concerning JANET services and requests for information.Enquiries can be made by telephone, fax, post and electronic mail.
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JANET(UK) produced the following documentation during the period October to December 1995.
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About forty sites in Europe and the USA agreed to supply regular logs for the analysis of international web and ftp access from the UK.Several documents were produced including the first set of analysis on the international web and ftp access and a ftp caching software specification.

A ftp caching software is under development and is scheduled to be available by June 1996.Those sites who are interested in improving their international network access services and wish to participate in the pilot site test for ftp cache software, should contact the John Kwan (email John.Kwan@ja.net) or refer to the current projects on the JANET(UK) web server for further information (the URL is http://www.tech.janet.ac.uk).
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The ACOL (Asynchronous COLlaboration) project will publish its first report in February.
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This report provides an overview of two document interchange conversion techniques, ODA and SGML and discusses both commercial and academic developments of ODA and SGML converters.
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Design and interworking of converters is also looked at.

A paper will be presented at Networkshop.

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2.6 Intermittent Connectivity (TICTAC)

A RFI (Request For Information) with regard to the provision of a nationwide dialup service has been developed and was sent to a number of suppliers at the end of 1995.It is expected to have replies returned by early February 1996.

All equipment for the Videoconference gateway is now ready but we are still awaiting the contract agreement between JANET(UK) and Mercury in order to proceed.
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Full details will be included in the next Secure Email report (this will be available later in January via the JANET(UK) WWW).
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These countries are Croatia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and UK.
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These countries are Croatia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and UK.
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JANET(UK) is the project manager and a key participant in the project.
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Those who are interested in the findings of the project may refer to the "

Many in the community will be aware that JANET(UK) is being market tested.
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The process started at the end of last year, and in January the JISC issued an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for the provision of operational services of the JANET network.
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JANET(UK) was one of the four companies short listed to respond to the ITT.
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We have had many enquiries from the community about how this is all proceeding.JANET(UK) has been working hard to prepare its bid, and I am happy to report that we have submitted our proposal to the JISC in advance of the deadline.
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We have produced a proposal that is fully compliant with the requirements of the ITT, and I believe it has all the qualities needed to win the contract for JANET(UK).
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We have produced a proposal that is fully compliant with the requirements of the ITT, and I believe it has all the qualities needed to win the contract for JANET(UK).
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The time table has the process scheduled for completion in July.

JANET(UK) is grateful for the support we have received from the community during this exercise.
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A project began to upgrade all IP connections to JANET to be 2Mbit/s, for HEIs which were not part of SuperJANET Phase 2 or MAN developments.
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The JCPs are of one of two types, either Points of Presence (POPs) or Managed Access Points (MAPs).
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The JCPs are of one of two types, either Points of Presence (POPs) or Managed Access Points (MAPs).
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The POPs provide a hosting service for the siting of JANET(UK) owned and managed equipment.
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JANET(UK)'s role is to ensure the quality of service provided for JANET access is of a standard that at least matches the SLA.
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Operation of the primary name servers for ac.uk continues.
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All the radio time signal receivers have now been deployed.
...
Where incidents can be traced back to a responsible body JANET(UK) has continued to make relevant enquiries; these are never likely to achieve any redress or sanction - indeed, none have yet done so.
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The withdrawal of Grey Book continues, and JANET(UK) has again advised customer organizations on their use of NRS and DNS registrations to maintain connectivity.
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In the quarter to the end of March 1996, 90 reports were received by JANET-CERT.During February the two day Workshop on Firewalls for Computer Security was repeated in Liverpool, Edinburgh and London (see 3.4.1).
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Evidence has also been recovered about intrusions at non-JANET sites.
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A 2Mbit/s link to HEANET (EIRE) has been installed.
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An order has been placed for an increase in access bandwidth to IBDNS from 4 Mbit/s to 8Mbit/s, primarily to improve access to Germany.
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An upgrade to the equivalent of four times 2 Mbit/s (supplied through a new US point of presence in New Jersey) came into service in early March, by which time performance on the original links was seriously affected by overload.The new provision has made a significant difference, in that far fewer transfer are now failing and there is spare capacity out of hours.Peak time performance is still inadequate, however.A second tranche of additional capacity (6*1.5 Mbit/s to ANSNet) was installed in late March, and tested at the router level, but was not yet available to users at the end of the month.
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The present plans, which require further study and refinement, are based on the establishment of two interconnected sub-networks: one supplied by the main PNOs of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, with the other supplied by Unisource on behalf of their parent companies, the main PNOs in the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
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The present plans, which require further study and refinement, are based on the establishment of two interconnected sub-networks: one supplied by the main PNOs of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, with the other supplied by Unisource on behalf of their parent companies, the main PNOs in the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
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We have noticed that the TACS has become congested at times.Some attempts to re- balance the load have been made, but we would like to remind users that it is better to use the service name appropriate to the region you are in rather than the generic name telnet.ja.net. i.e. south.telnet.ja.net, mid.telnet.ja.net, lon.telnet.ja.net and north.telnet.ja.net.Use of these names helps to balance the load between the two convertors.
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Management of authorization at the relays (restricting their use to JANET customers) has been improved.
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We have been able to provide temporary feeds from the PSINet public news server while we arrange for feeds to be available from within JANET. (Note we shall be using the name PSINet in the future as EUnet GB were taken over last year by PSINet).

We have installed a large server which is being brought into operation and we will be offering a trial news reader service to selected sites.
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Enquiries can be made by telephone, fax, post and electronic mail.If someone from JANET Customer Service is unable to take a call, please leave your query on the answering machine and the call will be returned when staff are available.

Electronic mail for JANET Customer Service should be sent to service@ja.net (X.400: S=service; O=janet; P=uk.ac; C=gb;) however mail sent to previous addresses will be redirected.
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JANET(UK) produced the following documentation during the period January to March 1996.
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As more ATM products became available in the market place, JANET(UK) agreed with participating institutions to extend of the pilot projects until July 1996.
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They had agreed to take this equipment because Bay Networks couldn't deliver and IBM had offered to loan it under the ATM LAN Pilot initiative.Unfortunately, the LAN Emulation Server requires an MCA-based PC and Glasgow didn't have such a machine.
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The ACOL project has completed phase one - A report on State-of-the Art Applications, Products.The resulting report can be found on the JANET(UK) WWW -
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The following reports have been produced and are available on the JANET(UK) WWW - URL:
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The following reports have been completed and will be shortly made available on the JANET(UK) WWW:
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The TICTAC Support Centre was set up by JANET(UK) to undertake a large range of activities on "intermittent connectivity" solutions and provide recommendations to the community early in January 1995.
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A Request for Information (RFI) was issued to a number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) at the end of 1995 in order to find a solution for a national dial-up service.
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A Request for Information (RFI) was issued to a number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) at the end of 1995 in order to find a solution for a national dial-up service.
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Responses were returned early in February 96.After analysing the RFI responses, an Operational Requirement (OR) document was issued to a list of potential suppliers.Tenders are expected to be received on 9 April 96.The TICTAC Centre, Open University and JANET(UK) are jointly working towards the solution.
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The project is due to complete in May and the main focus of discussion was on how the next phase of the project might progress.Apart from the work already underway new areas to look at include the areas of mail user agent integration and key management.
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As part of the Secure Email project JANET(UK) has collaborated with TERENA and SURFnet to produce a CD-ROM containing PGP and associated tools for all available systems.
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Copies will also be distributed to site contacts.
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Papers containing guidance on research use of the ATM network and ATM Addressing issues have been produced.
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For further details see the JANET(UK) web server.
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Apart from the meeting in December 1995, all others were held over the Video network.The main interest of the group had been focused on ATM in the past year.
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The group has an associated mailing list: Video-TAG@ja.net
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The final version of the document was produced on 13 March 1996 after the MMG working meeting in Hungary.
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Mechanisms to establish service priorities to assure appropriate quality of service Transaction security Service scalability Define standards which provide scheduling of the management and control of the various resources involved in a conference session Definition of a mapping between MHEG-5 and HTML Definition of common access structures for point-to-point and multipoint communication to guarantee portability of co-operative document handling applications
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JANET(UK) has continued to provide information to suppliers on community requirements.
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In February 1996 JANET(UK) organised a set of workshops on the topic Firewalls for Computer Security.
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Networkshop 24 was organised jointly by JANET

Rev. Janet Maykus Janet is a native Texan, born in Lancaster, Texas, near Dallas.She holds a BA in International Affairs from Texas Christian University and a M.Div. from Duke Divinity School at Duke University.Janet began her career as a minister to migrant farm workers through the North Carolina United Methodist Farm Workers Ministry.She has served as associate pastor at Pinewood Presbyterian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, chaplain at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, California, and chaplain at Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas.

She is currently Director of Spiritual Care and Bereavement at Hospice Austin, one of the oldest and largest non-profit hospice organizations in the nation.At Hospice Austin, Janet currently directs a staff of 13 chaplains, three bereavement counselors, 40 volunteers and three other staff who provide non-denominational spiritual support for terminally ill patients and their loved ones and bereavement support for anyone throughout a five-county Central Texas region.

Since she joined Hospice Austin in 1992, she has established a bereavement program from the ground up that is now the leading grief support resource in Central Texas, funded in part by corporations, foundations and individuals.Janet has identified needs in the community and designed a bereavement program that is free and open to all.The program she has created includes individual counseling, Spanish language programs, a one-of-a kind program for families, an array of support groups and Camp Brave Heart, a summer camp for grieving children.

Janet is currently developing a program that will provide grief support to underprivileged children, teens and adults in economically stressed areas of Austin.Janet founded the Hospice Austin Ethics Committee which provides opinions not only for Hospice Austin, but for the entire medical community.Janet is a noted speaker and shares her expertise in end-of-life issues through frequent public speaking, educational presentations and news media interviews.She appears in several end-of-life educational videos including the award-winning Facing Death.

Many in the community will be aware that JANET(UK) is being market tested.
...
The process started at the end of last year, and in January the JISC issued an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for the provision of operational services of the JANET network.
...
JANET(UK) was one of the four companies short listed to respond to the ITT.
...
We have had many enquiries from the community about how this is all proceeding.JANET(UK) has been working hard to prepare its bid, and I am happy to report that we have submitted our proposal to the JISC in advance of the deadline.
...
We have produced a proposal that is fully compliant with the requirements of the ITT, and I believe it has all the qualities needed to win the contract for JANET(UK).
...
We have produced a proposal that is fully compliant with the requirements of the ITT, and I believe it has all the qualities needed to win the contract for JANET(UK).
...
The time table has the process scheduled for completion in July.

JANET(UK) is grateful for the support we have received from the community during this exercise.
...
A project began to upgrade all IP connections to JANET to be 2Mbit/s, for HEIs which were not part of SuperJANET Phase 2 or MAN developments.
...
The JCPs are of one of two types, either Points of Presence (POPs) or Managed Access Points (MAPs).
...
The JCPs are of one of two types, either Points of Presence (POPs) or Managed Access Points (MAPs).
...
The POPs provide a hosting service for the siting of JANET(UK) owned and managed equipment.
...
JANET(UK)'s role is to ensure the quality of service provided for JANET access is of a standard that at least matches the SLA.
...
Operation of the primary name servers for ac.uk continues.
...
All the radio time signal receivers have now been deployed.
...
Where incidents can be traced back to a responsible body JANET(UK) has continued to make relevant enquiries; these are never likely to achieve any redress or sanction - indeed, none have yet done so.
...
The withdrawal of Grey Book continues, and JANET(UK) has again advised customer organizations on their use of NRS and DNS registrations to maintain connectivity.
...
In the quarter to the end of March 1996, 90 reports were received by JANET-CERT.During February the two day Workshop on Firewalls for Computer Security was repeated in Liverpool, Edinburgh and London (see 3.4.1).
...
Evidence has also been recovered about intrusions at non-JANET sites.
...
A 2Mbit/s link to HEANET (EIRE) has been installed.
...
An order has been placed for an increase in access bandwidth to IBDNS from 4 Mbit/s to 8Mbit/s, primarily to improve access to Germany.
...
An upgrade to the equivalent of four times 2 Mbit/s (supplied through a new US point of presence in New Jersey) came into service in early March, by which time performance on the original links was seriously affected by overload.The new provision has made a significant difference, in that far fewer transfer are now failing and there is spare capacity out of hours.Peak time performance is still inadequate, however.A second tranche of additional capacity (6*1.5 Mbit/s to ANSNet) was installed in late March, and tested at the router level, but was not yet available to users at the end of the month.
...
The present plans, which require further study and refinement, are based on the establishment of two interconnected sub-networks: one supplied by the main PNOs of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, with the other supplied by Unisource on behalf of their parent companies, the main PNOs in the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
...
The present plans, which require further study and refinement, are based on the establishment of two interconnected sub-networks: one supplied by the main PNOs of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, with the other supplied by Unisource on behalf of their parent companies, the main PNOs in the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
...
We have noticed that the TACS has become congested at times.Some attempts to re- balance the load have been made, but we would like to remind users that it is better to use the service name appropriate to the region you are in rather than the generic name telnet.ja.net. i.e. south.telnet.ja.net, mid.telnet.ja.net, lon.telnet.ja.net and north.telnet.ja.net.Use of these names helps to balance the load between the two convertors.
...
Management of authorization at the relays (restricting their use to JANET customers) has been improved.
...
We have been able to provide temporary feeds from the PSINet public news server while we arrange for feeds to be available from within JANET. (Note we shall be using the name PSINet in the future as EUnet GB were taken over last year by PSINet).
...
Enquiries can be made by telephone, fax, post and electronic mail.If someone from JANET Customer Service is unable to take a call, please leave your query on the answering machine and the call will be returned when staff are available.

Electronic mail for JANET Customer Service should be sent to service@ja.net (X.400: S=service; O=janet; P=uk.ac; C=gb;) however mail sent to previous addresses will be redirected.
...
JANET(UK) produced the following documentation during the period January to March 1996.
...
As more ATM products became available in the market place, JANET(UK) agreed with participating institutions to extend of the pilot projects until July 1996.
...
They had agreed to take this equipment because Bay Networks couldn't deliver and IBM had offered to loan it under the ATM LAN Pilot initiative.Unfortunately, the LAN Emulation Server requires an MCA-based PC and Glasgow didn't have such a machine.
...
The ACOL project has completed phase one - A report on State-of-the Art Applications, Products.The resulting report can be found on the JANET(UK) WWW -
...
The following reports have been produced and are available on the JANET(UK) WWW - URL:
...
The following reports have been completed and will be shortly made available on the JANET(UK) WWW:
...
The TICTAC Support Centre was set up by JANET(UK) to undertake a large range of activities on "intermittent connectivity" solutions and provide recommendations to the community early in January 1995.
...
A Request for Information (RFI) was issued to a number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) at the end of 1995 in order to find a solution for a national dial-up service.
...
A Request for Information (RFI) was issued to a number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) at the end of 1995 in order to find a solution for a national dial-up service.
...
Responses were returned early in February 96.After analysing the RFI responses, an Operational Requirement (OR) document was issued to a list of potential suppliers.Tenders are expected to be received on 9 April 96.The TICTAC Centre, Open University and JANET(UK) are jointly working towards the solution.
...
The project is due to complete in May and the main focus of discussion was on how the next phase of the project might progress.Apart from the work already underway new areas to look at include the areas of mail user agent integration and key management.
...
As part of the Secure Email project JANET(UK) has collaborated with TERENA and SURFnet to produce a CD-ROM containing PGP and associated tools for all available systems.
...
Copies will also be distributed to site contacts.
...
Papers containing guidance on research use of the ATM network and ATM Addressing issues have been produced.
...
For further details see the JANET(UK) web server.
...
Apart from the meeting in December 1995, all others were held over the Video network.The main interest of the group had been focused on ATM in the past year.
...
The group has an associated mailing list: Video-TAG@ja.net
...
The final version of the document was produced on 13 March 1996 after the MMG working meeting in Hungary.
...
Mechanisms to establish service priorities to assure appropriate quality of service Transaction security Service scalability Define standards which provide scheduling of the management and control of the various resources involved in a conference session Definition of a mapping between MHEG-5 and HTML Definition of common access structures for point-to-point and multipoint communication to guarantee portability of co-operative document handling applications
...
JANET(UK) has continued to provide information to suppliers on community requirements.
...
In February 1996 JANET(UK) organised a set of workshops on the topic Firewalls for Computer Security.
...
Networkshop 24 was organised jointly by JANET(UK) and the University of Sussex.
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Networkshop 24 was organised jointly by JANET(UK) and the University of Sussex.

Many in the community will be aware that JANET(UK) is being market tested.
...
The process started at the end of last year, and in January the JISC issued an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for the provision of operational services of the JANET network.
...
JANET(UK) was one of the four companies short listed to respond to the ITT.
...
JANET(UK) has been working hard to prepare its bid, and I am happy to report that we have submitted our proposal to the JISC in advance of the deadline.
...
We have produced a proposal that is fully compliant with the requirements of the ITT, and I believe it has all the qualities needed to win the contract for JANET(UK).
...
We have produced a proposal that is fully compliant with the requirements of the ITT, and I believe it has all the qualities needed to win the contract for JANET(UK).
...
The time table has the process scheduled for completion in July.

JANET(UK) is grateful for the support we have received from the community during this exercise.
...
A project began to upgrade all IP connections to JANET to be 2Mbit/s, for HEIs which were not part of SuperJANET Phase 2 or MAN developments.
...
The JCPs are of one of two types, either Points of Presence (POPs) or Managed Access Points (MAPs).
...
The JCPs are of one of two types, either Points of Presence (POPs) or Managed Access Points (MAPs).
...
The POPs provide a hosting service for the siting of JANET(UK) owned and managed equipment.
...
JANET(UK)'s role is to ensure the quality of service provided for JANET access is of a standard that at least matches the SLA.
...
Operation of the primary name servers for ac.uk continues.
...
All the radio time signal receivers have now been deployed.
...
Where incidents can be traced back to a responsible body JANET(UK) has continued to make relevant enquiries; these are never likely to achieve any redress or sanction - indeed, none have yet done so.
...
The withdrawal of Grey Book continues, and JANET(UK) has again advised customer organizations on their use of NRS and DNS registrations to maintain connectivity.
...
In the quarter to the end of March 1996, 90 reports were received by JANET-CERT.During February the two day Workshop on Firewalls for Computer Security was repeated in Liverpool, Edinburgh and London (see 3.4.1).
...
Evidence has also been recovered about intrusions at non-JANET sites.
...
A 2Mbit/s link to HEANET (EIRE) has been installed.
...
An order has been placed for an increase in access bandwidth to IBDNS from 4 Mbit/s to 8Mbit/s, primarily to improve access to Germany.
...
An upgrade to the equivalent of four times 2 Mbit/s (supplied through a new US point of presence in New Jersey) came into service in early March, by which time performance on the original links was seriously affected by overload.The new provision has made a significant difference, in that far fewer transfer are now failing and there is spare capacity out of hours.Peak time performance is still inadequate, however.A second tranche of additional capacity (6*1.5 Mbit/s to ANSNet) was installed in late March, and tested at the router level, but was not yet available to users at the end of the month.
...
The present plans, which require further study and refinement, are based on the establishment of two interconnected sub-networks: one supplied by the main PNOs of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, with the other supplied by Unisource on behalf of their parent companies, the main PNOs in the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
...
The present plans, which require further study and refinement, are based on the establishment of two interconnected sub-networks: one supplied by the main PNOs of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, with the other supplied by Unisource on behalf of their parent companies, the main PNOs in the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
...
We have noticed that the TACS has become congested at times.Some attempts to re- balance the load have been made, but we would like to remind users that it is better to use the service name appropriate to the region you are in rather than the generic name telnet.ja.net. i.e. south.telnet.ja.net, mid.telnet.ja.net, lon.telnet.ja.net and north.telnet.ja.net.Use of these names helps to balance the load between the two convertors.
...
Management of authorization at the relays (restricting their use to JANET customers) has been improved.
...
We have been able to provide temporary feeds from the PSINet public news server while we arrange for feeds to be available from within JANET. (Note we shall be using the name PSINet in the future as EUnet GB were taken over last year by PSINet).
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Enquiries can be made by telephone, fax, post and electronic mail.If someone from JANET Customer Service is unable to take a call, please leave your query on the answering machine and the call will be returned when staff are available.

Electronic mail for JANET Customer Service should be sent to service@ja.net (X.400: S=service; O=janet; P=uk.ac; C=gb;) however mail sent to previous addresses will be redirected.
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JANET(UK) produced the following documentation during the period January to March 1996.
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As more ATM products became available in the market place, JANET(UK) agreed with participating institutions to extend of the pilot projects until July 1996.
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They had agreed to take this equipment because Bay Networks couldn't deliver and IBM had offered to loan it under the ATM LAN Pilot initiative.Unfortunately, the LAN Emulation Server requires an MCA-based PC and Glasgow didn't have such a machine.
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The ACOL project has completed phase one - A report on State-of-the Art Applications, Products.The resulting report can be found on the JANET(UK) WWW -
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The following reports have been produced and are available on the JANET(UK) WWW - URL:
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The following reports have been completed and will be shortly made available on the JANET(UK) WWW:
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The TICTAC Support Centre was set up by JANET(UK) to undertake a large range of activities on "intermittent connectivity" solutions and provide recommendations to the community early in January 1995.
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A Request for Information (RFI) was issued to a number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) at the end of 1995 in order to find a solution for a national dial-up service.
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A Request for Information (RFI) was issued to a number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) at the end of 1995 in order to find a solution for a national dial-up service.
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Responses were returned early in February 96.After analysing the RFI responses, an Operational Requirement (OR) document was issued to a list of potential suppliers.Tenders are expected to be received on 9 April 96.The TICTAC Centre, Open University and JANET(UK) are jointly working towards the solution.
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The project is due to complete in May and the main focus of discussion was on how the next phase of the project might progress.Apart from the work already underway new areas to look at include the areas of mail user agent integration and key management.
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As part of the Secure Email project JANET(UK) has collaborated with TERENA and SURFnet to produce a CD-ROM containing PGP and associated tools for all available systems.
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Copies will also be distributed to site contacts.
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Papers containing guidance on research use of the ATM network and ATM Addressing issues have been produced.
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For further details see the JANET(UK) web server.
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Apart from the meeting in December 1995, all others were held over the Video network.The main interest of the group had been focused on ATM in the past year.
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The group has an associated mailing list: Video-TAG@ja.net
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The final version of the document was produced on 13 March 1996 after the MMG working meeting in Hungary.
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Mechanisms to establish service priorities to assure appropriate quality of service Transaction security Service scalability Define standards which provide scheduling of the management and control of the various resources involved in a conference session Definition of a mapping between MHEG-5 and HTML Definition of common access structures for point-to-point and multipoint communication to guarantee portability of co-operative document handling applications
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JANET(UK) has continued to provide information to suppliers on community requirements.
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In February 1996 JANET(UK) organised a set of workshops on the topic Firewalls for Computer Security.
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Networkshop 24 was organised jointly by JANET(UK) and the University of Sussex.
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Networkshop 24 was organised jointly by JANET(UK) and the University of Sussex.
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A Call for Papers has been issued and further details can be found on the janet web server.