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So it’s been a while since my last blog update (apologies for that), and the main reason for this is that we’ve all been fairly busy recently!
Recent highlights include:
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Sat in the bar of a dual-carriageway stained Norwich hotel, trying to digest the bland tasteless chilli con carne they had on offer (note to chef: more chilli powder does not equal more taste), nothing much to do other than catch up on emails and ask the barman no less than 4 times to put football on the TV, I may as well do a quick blog update.
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To expand on Rachel’s blog entry from last week: we’re now the proud owners of ≈2400km of dark fibre that makes up the Janet6 core. This is the central ‘ladder’ structure that runs up the country and consists of key points of presence in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and plenty more inbetween. The core of the network then extends out to the regional fibre infrastructure and connects to the 18 regional networks, so it’s clearly an integral part of Janet.
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The location for writing this week’s blog update (I admit they’re starting to stray from being weekly at the moment) is a pub that sits in the shadow of the Centre Point building in central London. Part of the scope of the Janet6 project is to provide fibre connectivity to a group of ‘Strategic Research Facilities’, these are Janet customer sites from the research sector that have a specific demand for high capacity network connectivity.
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Once a month at Janet we have a company meeting during which different people from different parts of the company are invited to speak about their particular area of expertise. Having worked at Janet for over 10 years I’d somehow managed to avoid this duty, until today. It was my turn to give an update on the Janet6 project, something I should clearly know a bit about, and this is the subject of this week’s photo. More relevant to the Janet community is that the talk I gave today is a vastly scaled down version of what you’ll be able to hear about at Networkshop this year (see below).
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Very little to report this week (as you can imagine) - the office is almost empty, there's no milk in the fridge, and any pressing work items were dealt with last week. Today will consist of finishing off a few bits of admin, tidying up, getting things lined up for the new year, and then heading out for lunch with my extended family.
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It has been pointed out to me by someone from the upper echelons of the Janet family that a blog post that doesn't contain a photo is now considered something of a disappointment, so a colleague kindly snapped me hard at work this afternoon.
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After the excitement of last week’s world tour, it's a case of back to reality this week; every day has been spent in the office. There’s not a great deal to report this week other than a lot of ‘finishing off’ and ‘tidying up’ is going on in preparation for the Christmas break.
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Following on from my blog post ‘Out and About #1’ earlier in the week, the past 2 days has seen yet more exciting activities taking place.
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As I'm sat on the 16:40 from Bristol Parkway to Leeds, it strikes me that I have 3 and a half hours spare so could make a start on my next blog update. This week I've been let out of the office so there's lots to talk about...
