Writing this as I sit at Schiphol airport waiting for my delayed flight (due to snow, there was barely a dusting) back to Heathrow. Some reflections on 2 days spent in Amsterdam with peers and colleagues from across Europe. GÉANT GÉANT is the pan-European network for the research and education community. It connects Janet and roughly 40 […]
The 123rd member meeting of LINX (formerly the London Internet Exchange) took place on the 20th and 21st November, 2024. This also marked the 30th anniversary of the creation of LINX. For those that don’t know, Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) are locations where a number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) […]
Introduction The last Monday in October saw my alarm set for 02:45 in order to catch a 05:55 flight from Manchester Airport to head to Prague for RIPE 89. There are a number of reasons I participate in RIPE meetings. First of all, the RIPE community sets the policies by which Jisc, and other service […]
Today, 6th June 2022, marks the tenth anniversary of the World IPv6 Launch, an event that saw many ISPs and content providers turn on IPv6 access to their services for the first time. In this article, we reflect on an IPv6 use case that’s now seeing 100Gbps of IPv6 traffic traversing Janet. The Large Hadron […]
This article explores what Jisc is doing to support 5G activities across the UK, and how 5G technology is being trialled as a way of providing connectivity to Jisc members and customers. Note: Jisc is not planning to provide a 5G service, more looking at how 5G could be used as an alternative technology to […]
