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This is the High Throughput special interest group on line group. Network performance problems may cause issues to scientists and network operators alike. Throughput problems can be caused by many factors - including infrastructure, hosts, applications. Researchers that encounter network problems sometimes can use this resource to facilitate troubleshooting, tuning and get general advice from the community.
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This is an open group for background information and updates on the Jisc funded safe share project working with partners in the Farr Institute, Medical Bioinformatics initiative and Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN).
There are two project streams:
Higher assurance network (HAN) projectAuthentication, Authorisation and Accounting Infrastructure (AAAI) projectDecember 2016 Update:
Jisc have agreed to take forward the safe share higher assurance network (HAN) stream...
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This group was originally set up to share opinions and ask questions regarding The Cloud's guest WiFi overlay solution for the Janet network.
Ian Horley is The Cloud contact person.
There is a public access group at:
https://community.jisc.ac.uk/groups/janet-public-access
and any questions, comments etc. can be posted there.
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Why is IPv6 important?
Put simply, it is no longer possible for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to allocate new network addresses under the old protocol running the Internet, IPv4. This does not mean the Internet itself is running out. It does however limit the applicability of all new installations. Many organisations have existing reserves of IPv4 space but the time will come when no new addresses can be assigned. Adoption of IPv6 needs to happen to allow the Internet...
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A group to go alongside the WIRELESS-ADMIN JISCMAIL list - a place to store documents and record issues in the world of WiFi
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New: Presentations from NHS-HE Forum on 11th June 2020; NHS-HE IG WG meeting 7th July 2020
NHS-Higher Education Connectivity Project: about
NHS-HE Forum: about+archive, last meeting, next - November 2020 tba
Scotland NHS-HE Forum:archive, next - currently on hold
NHS & eduroam, List of hospitals providing eduroam
Govroam - roaming federation for the public services
NHS-HE Information Governance Working Group - particularly for those involved in...
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Janet North West Group
Welcome to Janet North West; the Janet community in North West England. Here you can find out about:
Getting help and support with your Janet connection and services.The Janet services and connectivity available to you.Your local Janet activities and events.You can also use this Group to:
Get information and guidance about Janet’s services, policies, technology, etc. For example, you can ask about using Janet’s Frameworks or...
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Old Netsight Shutdown - March 2020
The old version of Netsight will be turned off at the end of March 2020 !If you have Netsight information and reports populating web pages, intranet reports or operation desk systems - please ensure you migrate to netsight3 and test these reports' function. Notify us imediately of any issues. Please email help@jisc.ac.uk with a subject line of "FAO: Netsight2 Closure Project"
New Netsight (Netsight3)
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IP Multicast is a bandwidth conserving technology that can reduce traffic by transporting single streams of information across the network backbone to regional and local distribution points where the data is replicated for simultaneous delivery to multiple users. Some applications that can take advantage of Multicast include videoconferencing, video serving and news distribution.
An IPv6 Multicast Technical Guide is available.The updated IPv4 Multicast Technical Guide will be available in...