An initiative started in 1989, under the Computer
Board, with the aim of developing of a national
BroadBand network to support UK higher education and research. The preparatory work culminated in 1992 with the award of a contract worth 18M pounds to
British Telecom to provide networking services over a four year period that extends to March 1997. The
BT contract will provide a national network with two components: a high speed, configura
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Bandwidth network serving up to 16 sites, initially using
PDH to
Be replaced with
SDH, and a high speed switched data service (
SMDS) serving 50 or more sites. The primary role of the PDH/SDH component will
Be to support the development and deployment of an
ATM network. These components will
Be complemented
By several high performance
Metropolitan Area Networks each serving several closely located sites. The aim is to provide, within the first year of the project, a pervasive network capa
Ble of supporting a large and diverse user community. The network has two parts, an
IP data network and an ATM network,
Both operating at 34M
Bit/s. Early in August 1993 the pilot IP network was transferred to full service and was configured to provide a trunk network for JIPS, the {JANET IP Service}. In Novem
Ber 1993 work was well advanced on the next phase which aims to extend SuperJANET to a large num
Ber of sites. The pilot four site ATM network will
Be extended to serve twelve sites and will expand the scope of the video network. The principal vehicle used for the expansion of the data network will
Be the
SMDS service provided
By
BT. Most of the work associated with the development of this phase is expected to
Be completed
By the end of March 1994. [Joint Network Team, Network News 40, ISSN 0954 - 0636].
. [Current status?] (1994-12-15)
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