Joint Academic NETwork


Joint Academic NETwork

(JANET) The wide area network which links UK academic andresearch institutes. JANET is controlled by the Joint Network Team (JNT) and Network Executive (NE). It is aninternet (a large number of interconnected sub-networks)that provides connectivity within the community as well asaccess to external services and other communities. The hubis the JANET subnetwork, a private X.25 packet-switchednetwork that interconnects over 100 sites. At the majority ofsites, local area networks (LANs) are connected to JANETallowing off-site access for the computers and terminalsconnected to these networks. The Coloured Book protocolarchitecture is used to support interactive terminal access tocomputers (for both character terminals and screen terminals),inter-host file transfers, electronic mail and remotebatch job submission.

http://nic.ja.net/.

See also JIPS, SuperJanet.