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'''UKERNA ''' also known as '''JANET (UK)''' is the trading name for '''JNT Association''', a non-profit company funded by [[JISC]] to manage and develop the UK national research network backbone-'''JANET''', a computer network connecting the research and educational organizations in UK as well as the research and education networks in other Europe, United States and the Far East.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A6227417 bbc.co.uk]</ref>
'''UKERNA''' (United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association) is the trading name for '''JNT Association''', a non-profit company funded by [[JISC]] to manage and develop the UK national research network backbone'''JANET''', a computer network connecting the research and educational organizations in UK as well as the research and education networks in other Europe, United States and the Far East.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A6227417 bbc.co.uk]</ref>
UKERNA is also known as '''JANET (UK)'''.
==History==
In 1970, the United Kingdom Computer Board commissioned Professor Mike Wells to lead the working parties to write a report about the situation of networking between the educational institutions in the country known as the '''Wells Report'''. In his report, Prof. Mike Wells made two recommendations. First, to create a national research network that would link the university computing centers. Second, the Computer Board should establish a small, full-time unit to coordinate and guide the organizations that are principal recipients of funds from the Department of Education and Science that are involved in the development of the network.<ref>[http://wn.com/UKERNA wn.com]</ref>
As a result of the Wells Report, the '''Network Unit''' was created on November 1, 1976 until October 31, 1978. It is a three member small, full time unit which visited and observed the 50 universities within UK to obtain a comprehensive view of the actual situation within the data communications and to understands the needs of users and service providers.<ref>[http://wn.com/UKERNA wn.com]</ref>
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