Target Objectives 2005-06
The objectives which EaStMAN plan to achieve during the period October 2005 to September 2006:
- Develop the EaStMAN infrastructure to accomodate the dual SuperJANET5 Regional Network Entry Points at Appleton Tower and King's Buildings.
- Implement higher performance equipment to support 10Gbps links and to redistribute bandwidth.
- Implement improved resilience, where feasible and affordable, to connection failure for attached institutions.
- Attach UKlight to EaStMAN.
- Completing the UPS installation and attachment of network equipment (end October 2005);
- Reconnecting the core fibre infrastructure to attach to both King's Buildings and Appleton Tower S-PoPs (November and December 2005);
- Purchasing equipment and upgrading the core S-PoP routers to support 10Gbps Ethernet and the 2.5Gbps POS interfaces to JANET (complete by January 2006);
- Attaching the Etherswitches supporting 10/100Mbps connections to the two RNEPs using CWDM (by January 2006);
- Attaching SuperJANET5 to the POS interfaces at the RNEPs (by July 2006?);
- Investigating reconnection of EaStMAN ring sites - ongoing;
- Procurement of alternate paths across the EaStMAN fibre ring to support resilience (to be in place by October 2006);
- Investigation of the use of Internet connection to support some services during failures at remote sites (Spring 2006);
- UKlight project timescale will be notified.