The history of the Janet Network
The Janet Network has gone through a huge transformation since it went live on 1 April 1984.
1984 - JANET launches
JANET connects the UK's universities and research councils at the time, it's the the fastest computer network in the world.
1997
JANET starts to serve further education colleges.
2000
Launch of Athens single sign-on to make researchers' lives easier.
2002
JANET runs at 10Gbit/s.
2006
Fresh investment leads to launch of SuperJANET5 running at 40Gbit/s.
2011
More investment lead to JANET reaching speeds of 100Gbit/s.
2013
Janet6 launches - it's the world's most advanced computer network.
2014
eduroam, a roaming service for education users, reaches 95% of universities and is working on 500,000 devices.
Watch a video showing the key achievements of Jisc over the last 50 years.