Developments in 2008
FaTMAN-5 is operating successfully and fully connected to SuperJANET5
FaTMAN has signed the JANET Partner Agreement
A new connection from Dundee to Kirkcaldy will allow use of Open Dark Fibre
We are introducing Wave Division Multiplexing on two links (Dundee-St Andrews and Dundee-Kirkcaldy).
This will separate different services by allowing multiple connections over a single fibre pair.
Developments in 2006
FaTMAN-5 information
FaTMAN to be connected to SuperJANET5
FaTMAN Reformed Launch
The
FaTMAN Reformed Launch
took place at Dudhope Castle, Dundee on Wednesday 19 November 2003.
The launch event and agreement signing ceremony were attended
by Sir Clement Freud, Rector of St Andrews University.
Developments in 2002
FaTMAN-4 status report
FaTMAN to be connected to SuperJANET 4
FaTMAN receives funding from
SFC the Scottish Funding Council.
A 2002
SHEFC
Press Release explains their contributions.
The FaTMAN Consortium
FaTMAN is a consortium of the following institutions:
FaTMAN has been established as a
Consortium
with all FE and HE institutions receiving network services as members.
The members have signed a formal
Consortium Agreement
and
Network Services Agreement
with
explanatory notes
.
The University of Dundee is the
Regional Network Operator
.
Regional Networks in Scotland
There are other academic networks in Scotland:
All these networks have the same underlying goal of providing fast and
innovative links between universities, colleges and other education and research
institutes in Scotland.
SuperJANET is the backbone of JANET (the Joint Academic Network) that
provides connections between UK universities, colleges and research centres.
Fast links across the Atlantic and to Europe give high speed
connections to the Internet.
Brief History of FaTMAN
FaTMAN was the first academic Metropolitan Area Network in the UK to become operational.
This was in 1995 when it connected the three local Universities.
| FaTMAN-5 |
2006 |
Complete new network core with dual entry points,
resilience to each of the university members and
connection to SuperJANET5. |
| FaTMAN-4 |
2002 |
There was a major realignment of FaTMAN and JANET with additional funding
to connect colleges at 10 or 100Mbps.
FaTMAN was the only MAN to have all FE colleges connected at 100Mbps and all
HE universities connected at 1Gbps.
At this time, Lauder College left EaStMAN, became a member of FaTMAN
and connected to JANET via FaTMAN.
SuperJANET4 was established and FaTMAN upgraded its core
and edge network devices to match. Stiell won this tender and Thus won the
tender for communication circuits. |
| FaTMAN-3 |
2000 |
Funding was made available so that FE colleges could be connected to JANET.
FaTMAN welcomed this move and commissioned 2Mbps links from Telewest
to 5 local colleges. |
| FaTMAN-2 |
1996 |
Northern College joined the FaTMAN consortium. Additional fibres were
installed so that its Dundee campus could be connected to FaTMAN
by re-routing the ring to include Gardyne Road. |
| FaTMAN-1 |
1995 |
Initial configuration being an ATM ring between the three local universities
with an FDDI ring connecting University of Abertay Dundee to JANET.
This used the existing SuperJANET connections at Dundee and St Andrews
which operated over BT's SSDM service. |
See also FaTMAN Historical and reference
material
|
|
Status of FaTMAN
Netsight monitoring system
FaTMAN Performance
| Month
| Availability
|
| May 2009 |
100% |
| April 2009 |
100% |
| March 2009 |
99.45% |
| February 2009 |
100% |
| January 2009 |
100% |
| December 2008 |
100% |
| November 2008 |
99.25% |
| October 2008 |
100% |
| September 2008 |
100% |
| August 2008 |
100% |
| July 2008 |
100% |
| June 2008 |
100% |
|
| FaTMAN
Average |
99.89% |
Note
November 2008 was a disappointing month
because the Dundee-Kirkcaldy circuit had a
fibre fault apparently caused by work
being done by the supplier.
A separate circuit also had a fibre fault this month.
Availability
The Service Level Agreement sets a target of
at least 99% availability for each connection.
Source
Figures are collected by JANET (UK) as a means of checking that JANET
and its Regional Networks (such as FaTMAN) deliver at least the
level of service specified in the contract with JISC.
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