Janet West Midlands

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Welcome to the Janet West Midlands Group

This is the regional group for Janet customers in the West Midlands seeking information about Janet connectivity in their region, support, services and contact information.

The advanced technology at the heart of Janet coupled with the government’s drive for shared services and efficient procurement mean that Janet’s common infrastructure can support multiple communities and deliver significant savings.

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You might be interested to know that Janet training are running the following courses during August.

Using Free Network Tools

28, 30 July, 1, 8, 15 & 20 August – Live Online Course

Over 6 sessions, this online course covers the basics of Network Sniffing, from configuring networking devices to enable sniffing to occur, through to interpreting the output of the Wireshark tool. It will also explore alternative tools that can be used to support network-based investigations. 

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Janet Telephony Procurement

Janet is in the process of creating a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)

to enable Janet customers to purchase telephony services mobile

telephony services, ISDN circuits and associated equipment. The DPS is

centred around using Janet to deliver telephony traffic in the form of

SIP trunks, however it will also include handsets and customer premise

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Transition Timetable for Regional Networks

Below are details outlining when each regional network will be migrated to Janet6.

Date

Time

Region

Monday 22 July

07:00-09:00

Manchester, Aberdeen Region, Fife & Tayside Region, 

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The Janet West Midlands regional network was migrated to the new Janet 6 core on the 29th July. There was no disruption to service, or down time and the Janet West Midlands regional network is now connected to the fastest National Research and Education Network in the world. This will give Janet the expandability to be able to meet user requirements for the next 10 years and beyond.