Fife and Tayside Metropolitan Area Network

Launch of FaTMAN-4

Programme: 19th November 2003

The full Programme in PDF format.

PRESENTATIONS

Invited guests, including Sir Clement Freud, at the FaTMAN launch.
Speaker	Presentation
Malcolm Bain, Chair, FaTMAN Management Committee	Introduction Powerpoint show Acrobat PDF
Richard Murphy, Director, IT Services, University of Dundee	FaTMAN Reformed PowerPoint show Acrobat PDF
John McCann, Deputy Chief Executive, Scottish Further Education Unit	A real partnership in a Virtual World PowerPoint show Acrobat PDF
Robert Skey, The Scottish Executive, SSDN	The Scottish Schools Digital Network PowerPoint show Acrobat PDF
Phil Smith, Director, Business Development, Cisco Systems UK	21st Century Infrastructure Powerpoint show Acrobat PDF
Mike Whitehead, Director, FaTMAN Operations, University of Dundee	FaTMAN Futures Powerpoint show Acrobat PDF

The FaTMAN Consortium

FaTMAN is a consortium of the following institutions:

The University of Dundee is the Regional Network Operator .

Regional Academic Networks (MANs) in Scotland

There are other academic networks in Scotland:

AbMAN is the Aberdeen MAN
ClydeNet is the Glasgow MAN
EaStMAN is the Edinburgh and Stirling MAN
FaTMAN is the Fife and Tayside MAN
UHI Millennium Institute has its own network covering much of the North of Scotland

All these networks have the same underlying goal of providing fast and innovative links between universities and other Higher Education institutes in Scotland.

FaTMAN-4 Technology

FaTMAN consists of communication circuits provided by Thus plc. Between the University members are open fibres which we currently operate at 1Gbps (1 thousand million bits per second).

Most Further Education Colleges are connected by LAN Extension Services operating at 100Mbps (1 million bits per second). Dundee College is served by open fibres

The switching and routing equipment is from Cisco and is supplied by Stiell Networks Ltd of Uddingston, Glasgow (now known as Macalpine Business Services, Information Systems).

FaTMAN-4 Connection to SuperJANET

The SuperJANET network connects Universities and Colleges throughout Britain.

The FaTMAN-4 connection to SuperJANET is via 622Mbps circuit to Glasgow.

SuperJANET is a development of JANET (the Joint Academic Network) that provides connections between all UK universities and research centres. Fast links across the Atlantic and to Europe give high speed connections to the Internet.