A talk from our Tech 2 tech event by Bob Day, executive director, Janet

1. Future services
Bob Day, Executive Director, Janet
16 July 2018

2. £££: words from our sponsors
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Research:
BEIS, UKRI,
DCMS
research infrastructure
roadmap
compute, networks
data infrastructure
Education:
DfE, OfS et al
student experience
digital transformation
curriculum
analytics
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Industrial
Strategy
Skills Capabilities

3. Trends
» Migrations (or transitions?)
› services
› compute
› data
› people
› telecommunications
» Providing security and assurance
› preventing outages, disruption
– and other bad things
› appropriate access and use
– data and resources
› building and maintaining trust
– reliability
– assurance
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4. Directions of travel for Janet
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Highly reliable and ubiquitous
connectivity and bandwidth sufficient to need
testbeds, other special provisioning
datacentre services
data storage services
data transfer services
cybersecurityandhigherinformationassurance
formalassuranceregimesandcompliance
end-to-endthroughputandperformance
bandwidthprovisioningservices
roamingservices
accesstothird-partycloudservices
AA(A)infrastructure

5. 5GUK Exchange
Jisc Shared Data Centre @ Slough
5G @ 5GIC, University of Surrey
5G & Fibre
@ Bristol
5G & Big Data @ King’s
College London
Netpath (Janet)
5G Consumer Use-Cases 5G Industry Use-Cases
Current example: 5GTestbed
Netpath (Janet)
Netpath (Janet)
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Courtesy:TOUCAN project

6. Current example: shared data centers
»Southern at Slough:
› 21 tenants
› ca. 300 racks
› ca. 3 MW of power
»Northern at Leeds
› early tenants coming in
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Both directly connected to the Janet backbone at the optical level
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7. Current example: ExpressRoute Circuit Service
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Member Janet Microsoft
Public Internet
Azure traffic is separated from non-Azure traffic and
tunnelled straight to the Azure infrastructure
L2VPN
Azure
Consumers
Azure
Resources
Existing Janet
Connections
Private
Peering
Private
Connection
O365 etc.
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8. Current example: Safe Share Service
» A high assurance network overlay
› encrypted to National Cyber Security
Centre (NCSC) standards
› support for up to 1 Gbit/s bandwidth
» Developed originally for the health
informatics community
› to allow data to be moved safely between
protected locations within universities
› for more sophisticated analysis to deliver
improved clinical outcomes
› to encourage data owners to contribute
› to engender and improve public trust
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