United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association
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| Type: | Non-Profit |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 1994 |
| Founder(s): | Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland & Wales, Office of Science & Technology |
| Headquarters: | JANET(UK), Lumen House, Library Avenue Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0SG |
| Country: | UK |
| Website: | JA.net |
| LinkedIn: | UKERNA |
| Key People | |
| Tim Marshall, CEO | |
UKERNA (United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association) is the trading name for JNT Association, a non-profit company funded by JISC to manage and develop the UK national research network backboneJANET, a computer network connecting the research and educational organizations in UK as well as the research and education networks in other Europe, United States and the Far East.[1]
UKERNA is also known as JANET (UK).
History
In 1970, the United Kingdom Computer Board commissioned Professor Mike Wells to lead the working parties to write a report about the situation of networking between the educational institutions in the country known as the Wells Report. In his report, Prof. Mike Wells made two recommendations. First, to create a national research network that would link the university computing centers. Second, the Computer Board should establish a small, full-time unit to coordinate and guide the organizations that are principal recipients of funds from the Department of Education and Science that are involved in the development of the network.[2]
As a result of the Wells Report, the Network Unit was created on November 1, 1976 until October 31, 1978. It is a three member small, full time unit which visited and observed the 50 universities within UK to obtain a comprehensive view of the actual situation within the data communications and to understands the needs of users and service providers.[3]