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 w
ILL provide a national network with two components: a high speed, configurable 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 w
ILL be to support the development and deployment of an
ATM network. These components w
ILL 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 capable of supporting a large and diverse user community. The network has two parts, an
IP data network and an ATM network, both operating at 34Mbit/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 November 1993 work was well advanced on the next phase which aims to extend SuperJANET to a large number of sites. The pilot four site ATM network w
ILL be extended to serve twelve sites and w
ILL expand the scope of the video network. The principal vehicle used for the expansion of the data network w
ILL 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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