Earlier this month I attended CLAW 2019, the third Crisis Management Workshop for the GÉANT Community. The event was held at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre in Poland – not the easiest place to get to from the UK, but lovely once you’re there: My role at Jisc is Head of Delivery, but I […]
The capacity of the Janet network has always seen massive growth – in my time at Jisc it’s gone from the 10Gbits/s SuperJanet4 network in 2006, to the 100Gbits/s SuperJanet5 network in 2011, to the 600Gbits/s Janet6 network that operates today. We also made a bit of noise last year when we upgraded the core […]
A few (5) words on the process of designing new access networks, aka regional aggregation networks (health warning: written by not-a-network-designer). It Takes A Long Time I could leave it there, but for the sake of clarity I’ll delve into some of the more interesting and relevant details. So, we have a contractual requirement to […]
There’s nothing like a good holiday to escape, relax and rejuvenate. I was away for a couple of weeks recently (read this post on LinkedIn about how I kept in touch with all things Jisc and Janet), as were a lot of the rest of the access programme team. A lot of us have got […]
