Northern College is to join the FaTMAN consortium. This will enable the Dundee Campus of the Northern College to be connected to the FaTMAN network. The Aberdeen campus of Northern College is already connected to the Aberdeen MAN (known as AbMAN).

This connection has been made possible by a substantial grant from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) as part of its recent "Use of the MANs Initiative" (UMI.

It is expected that the connection will be completed about Easter 1996.

Northern College will be connected to the main ATM ring at the full 155Mbps.

Full details will be announced later.

Mike Whitehead 11th December 1995