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Jisc, the not-for-profit company responsible for maintaining the UK’s critical national research and education network, Janet, has today announced that they’ve reached a new 10-year agreement with Neos Networks to provide the scalable fibre optic infrastructure needed to support their increasingly data-intensive network.
Connectivity provider Neos Networks currently operates one of the biggest 34,000km long and 400Gbps capable business fibre optic networks in the UK – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 600+ Points of Presence (PoPs). Neos has long supported the Janet Network and in 2022 began helping them to deliver a new Dark Fibre network spanning the North-West of the UK – achieving high-capacity speeds up to 100Gbps.
However, the demands being placed on this infrastructure are growing rapidly. Advances in AI, alongside increasingly data-intensive areas of research, mean institutions need to move ever greater volumes of data between researchers, facilities and computing resources, often in real time. As these workloads grow, the underlying network must be able to scale with them.