A while back, after almost a decade of making (and sometimes breaking) networks at a university, I began searching for the next chapter in my career. My past experiences have been with large network vendors, small resellers and end customers, but never a service provider. The connection with the sector I’d grown to know and […]
Earlier this month was the NORDUnet conference where me and 2 colleagues from Jisc joined 270 other delegates from NRENs across the world to share, learn and collaborate. The event took place in Bergen, Norway: NORDUnet represents the 5 Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden – so the event has a strong […]
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 […]
Protecting networks, systems and users isn’t getting any easier. Whether it’s nation states looking for intellectual property to steal; criminals looking for ways to make money through ransomware or scamming users; or students launching denial of service attacks in the modern equivalent of setting the fire alarm off to get out of an exam, the […]
Traditionally network monitoring of properties such as traffic levels through an interface has been done by using SNMP-based polling of network devices. With such polling typically performed every five minutes the resulting plots will produce 5-minute data samples, so the traffic level shown over time, and the maximum rates seen, will be an average for […]
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 […]
This is probably not the first blog you have read on the Facebook / WhatsApp / Instagram (for the sake of verbiage, I’ll just refer to it as ‘Facebook’ from here on) outage, and it probably won’t be the last, but here are my observations from the Janet network. Unlike many services used on the […]
By Mark O’Leary, Head of network access All our members share the problem of providing connectivity to the general public when on their campuses, be it to visit a café or museum, or when attending an Open Day with their children considering where to study. So it may be surprising to some that the Public […]
To be precise, ¾ of the new Midlands access network is a go. We’re still battling to over come some significant delivery issues in the far east of the region, but the majority of the new infrastructure is now built, commissioned, and ready for service. We’ve also been working through some management system issues over […]
Over the past week we’ve completed the first phase of commissioning of our new London access network, and have started migrating member connectivity over to the new infrastructure. The lucky first institutions were Stanmore College, Bromley College, and Christ the King Sixth Form College, and there are plenty more to come. The new network offers […]
