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 re
Search. The preparatory work culminated in 1992 with the award of a contract worth 18M pound
S to Briti
Sh Telecom to provide networking
Service
S over a four year period that extend
S to March 1997. The BT contract will provide a national network with two component
S: a high
Speed, configurable bandwidth network
Serving up to 16
Site
S, initially u
Sing
PDH to be replaced with
SDH, and a high
Speed
Switched data
Service (
SMDS)
Serving 50 or more
Site
S. The primary role of the PDH/
SDH component will be to
Support the development and deployment of an
ATM network. The
Se component
S will be complemented by
Several high performance
Metropolitan Area NetworkS each
Serving
Several clo
Sely located
Site
S. The aim i
S to provide, within the fir
St year of the project, a perva
Sive network capable of
Supporting a large and diver
Se u
Ser community. The network ha
S two part
S, an
IP data network and an ATM network, both operating at 34Mbit/
S. Early in Augu
St 1993 the pilot IP network wa
S tran
Sferred to full
Service and wa
S configured to provide a trunk network for JIP
S, the {JANET IP
Service}. In November 1993 work wa
S well advanced on the next pha
Se which aim
S to extend
SuperJANET to a large number of
Site
S. The pilot four
Site ATM network will be extended to
Serve twelve
Site
S and will expand the
Scope of the video network. The principal vehicle u
Sed for the expan
Sion of the data network will be the
SMDS Service provided by
BT. Mo
St of the work a
SSociated with the development of thi
S pha
Se i
S expected to be completed by the end of March 1994. [Joint Network Team, Network New
S 40, I
SSN 0954 - 0636].
. [Current
Statu
S?] (1994-12-15)
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