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- Dave Raggett wrote:
- >By the way, you may be interested to know that in Britain, universities are
- >being connected this spring to a new fiber optic network intended to allow
- >academics to read electronic journals on-line with video clips, 3-D
- >animations
- >and simulations. It will be possible for distant researchers to work on the
- >same data or paper simultaneously and see each other's changes.
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- Dave is referring to SuperJANET, the planned upgrade to the existing JANET
- network. This was intended to be a high speed network for multi-service use,
- not just a data network but also a multimedia network for applications such
- as video conferencing, distance learning and medical imaging.
-
- As a result of the tendering process to pick the supplier for the
- underlying fibre infrastructure these goals have had to be altered slightly.
- What we are actually getting is a very nice data network (34 Mb/s) plus
- a fairly small number of sites with dedicated bandwidth for the multimedia
- services.
-
- Anyone interested in more details please contact me, as I'm secretary of
- the group building the data network.
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- Kevin Hoadley, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, K.Hoadley@directory.rl.ac.uk
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