Joint Academic NETwork

(JANET) The wide area network which links UK academic and

research institutes. JANET is controlled by the JointNetwork Team (JNT) and Network Executive (NE). It is an

internet (a large number of interconnected sub-networks)

that provides connectivity within the community as well as

access to external services and other communities. The hub

is the JANET subnetwork, a private X.25 packet-switched

network that interconnects over 100 sites. At the majority of

sites, local area networks (LANs) are connected to JANET

allowing off-site access for the computers and terminals

connected to these networks. The Coloured Book protocol

architecture is used to support interactive terminal access to

computers (for both character terminals and screen terminals),

inter-host file transfers, electronic mail and remote

batch job submission.

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See also JIPS, SuperJanet.

(1995-02-07)