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News Janet [the national education and research network] is looking at shared services for its data centres, it's only a small step to say 'let's put a supercomputer in there and have regional HPC centres',"... [11 May 2009]
£4.5m gets Midlands kids onto Janet
News Millions of students and school staff in the Midlands are set to be connected to the Janet education and research network. The body that oversees Janet has signed a £4.5m deal with... [06 Mar 2009]
Cheap broadband will stop BT going fibre charge crazy
News J is for Janet With a fibre network, if more people use the service, there could be lower capacity but equally it's fairly easy for the operator to raise capacity by putting in additional fibre into the... [03 Mar 2009]
Mind the mobile broadband cash gap
News J is for Janet Operators should also put caps on basic mobile broadband services - and block the likes of P2P traffic and VoIP - to ensure the minority of customers who can rack up a quarter of network... [11 Feb 2009]
Broadband Britain: Where's our revolution?
Comment J is for Janet Far from future-proofing the national network, Carter's strategy is one that looks more like getting by on barebones. Let a UK superfast broadband network - enabling truly... [30 Jan 2009]
Bournemouth braced for first Fibrecity homes
News J is for Janet The first clutch of homes to be connected to the 100Mbps Fibrecity network currently being built in Bournemouth will be hooked up by the end of March. The superfast seaside broadband... [20 Jan 2009]
Virgin debuts 50Mbps broadband
News J is for Janet The core network is fibre, and fibre often connects the exchange to the street cabinet. Fogg said on Monday: "Until someone builds a fibre network, [Virgin's 50Mbps... [16 Dec 2008]
Pay per use software coming soon?
News J is for Janet Virtualised or streaming applications, where software is run on a central machine and streamed to computers over a network, allows monitoring of precisely how long each instance of the... [08 Oct 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News J is for Janet An Ofcom assessment has predicted that DSL over normal copper phone lines could take virtually the whole country to broadband speeds of 50Mbps or more, as long as optical fibre is laid to the street... [22 Aug 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News J is for Janet Marek Vaygelt, head of technology and telecommunications consulting at YouGov, said in a statement: "Customers find mobile broadband easy to use and install but transmission speeds and, to a lesser extent,... [20 Aug 2008]
Exeter Uni gives £5.5m network upgrade the green light
News The network will be used to deliver course teaching materials and share computing power across the Dante and Janet research networks. The University of Exeter has finished the test-stage of a £5.5m... [17 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News J is for Janet O2 is considering investing in its own fibre-to-the-home network but wants to wait until Ofcom changes telecommunications regulation before it makes an investment. Virgin Media did,... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News J is for Janet BT is planning to spend £1.5bn on significantly upgrading its broadband network to support next generation super-fast internet. The plans aim to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study J is for Janet Mimecast provides email quarantining and, since implementation six months ago, the majority of spam has been blocked before it even enters the law firm's network. Ashurst has been using... [15 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study J is for Janet Google was an obvious choice as the company had been using Google Search Appliance for more than two years to manage search and retrieve documents on its internal network. Other benefits... [10 Jul 2008]
