Superjanet

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SuperJanet
       
          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, 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 will be to support the development and deployment of
          an {ATM} network.  These components will be complemented by
          several high performance {Metropolitan Area Network}s 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 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].
       
         
       {(ftp://osiris.jnt.ac.uk/pub/newsfiles/documents/netwnews/news40+/news40.para)}.
       
          [Current status?]
       
          (1994-12-15)