UK research and education is expected to benefit from a network running at 100Gbit/s, the equivalent of uploading 125 doctoral theses in just one second. Internationally other national research and education networks have conducted trials of 100Gbit/s technology but JANET, the UK's education and research network, is the first to run it for operational traffic.
The JANET network is designed to handle vast quantities of data from the world's greatest scientific endeavours and this latest advance ensures that the UK can collaborate and compete with the best there is. As bandwidth demand doubles every 18 months this upgrade is the latest crucial stage in the evolution of JANET.
As more organisations move towards cloud services and shared data centres and research projects produce vast quantities of data, the move to 100Gbit/s provides a cost effective means of meeting this demand.
The international reputation of the UK's education and research is seen as fundamental to the future economic recovery and prosperity of the country and, in a global marketplace, it can only achieve this with a world class infrastructure.
JANET's value to the schools sector in England was recently demonstrated by the Department for Education's decision to continue to provide central funding for the network in the forthcoming financial year.
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