JANET

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Joint Academic NETwork
JANET

   (JANET) The {wide area network} which links UK academic and
   research institutes.  JANET is controlled by the {Joint
   Network 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.

   (http://nic.ja.net/).

   See also {JIPS}, {SuperJanet}.

   (1995-02-07)