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JANET Reach Programme

Mark Tysom, Jisc

Janet Reach

» What is it ?

› A scheme to support & subsidise Janet connections for Industrial / Commercial entities

» Why are we doing this ?

› BIS funding from the e-Infrastructure programme

» Why are BIS funding e-Infrastructure?

› Perceived economic benefit for the UK

» What is e-Infrastructure ? – Major Facilities:

› Science – Diamond Light Source, Genomics....

› Data repositories

› Computation centres

› Networks - of course :-) 09/09/15 TF-MSP Meeting: 09/09/15. CSC/FUNET. Espoo, Finland 2

Janet and e-Infrastructure

»e-Infrastructure programme funding announced late 2011

»£150-£160M total

ȣ26M for Janet via HEFCE

»Broken down as:

› £10M contribution to Janet6 backbone

› £12M network provision within “classic” Janet community, including key locations which may need additional fibre access

› £4M “industry connections”

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Industry access to e-Infrastructure

»Dowling Review: “Open and accessible Janet”

» Industry access to academic community knowledge & expertise

» Industry access to academic community systems & resources already connected to Janet

»The £4M

› £1.5M facilitate Industry participation in academic AAI (Moonshot)

› £2.5M – Connections to Janet (Reach)

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Janet Reach

»Set up to comply with EU Research, Development & Innovation Exemption to State Aid http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-586_en.htm

»Permits Member States to grant state aid to companies to carry out R&D&I activities to support “highly innovative projects”

» Industry must also contribute “value”

› There are rules about the proportions of public and private funding allowed within a project

»We must be fair in providing access to the funds

› Equitable application process and monitoring of State Aid compliance

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State Aid

»Projects must be collaborations between industry and academic partners

» Industry partner submits application form and finance spreadsheets

»General R&D – up to 75% public funding allowed

»“Close to market” development – maybe only 30% allowed

› Someone has to evaluate this....

»External assessors judge state aid issues

› Finance proportions OK, sufficient innovation...

» Janet panel meets

› If budget exists, proceed to connection 09/09/15 TF-MSP Meeting: 09/09/15. CSC/FUNET. Espoo, Finland 6

State Aid example

» Janet connection values

› Market rate – no distortion

› 1Gb/s - £50-70k

› 10Gb/s - £250-300k

»Example at 10Gbit/s – very R&D oriented proposal

› Janet connection @ £300k

› Industry contributes £150k

› Total value = £450k

› Level of assistance = 300/450 or 67% - OK !

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Janet Eligibility Policy

»[8.2] Organisations (including commercial) conducting R&D which require access to Janet for their collaborations with education/research

› Rolls-Royce collaboration with Loughborough University

› Cost of connection met by Reach programme budget

»[11] Partner Organisations: “Business and Community Engagement”

› "Any Eligible Organisation may grant access to the Janet IP Service to another organisation (a “Partner Organisation”) appropriate to its missions.”

› The Partner Organisation *only* gets Janet IP, not any other Jisc services, and the Eligible Organisation is wholly responsible for supporting them and ensuring compliance with the other Janet policies and the law

› Cost of connection met by Partner and/or Eligible Organisation

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The story so far…

»Reach programme launched early 2014 as a competition

»Six applications received to date

»Rolls-Royce the first to be granted approval for a connection

› Access to HPC Midlands supercomputing facility› https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/rolls-royce-first-company-to-join-supercomputing-initiative-07-ju

l-2015

»Scheme scheduled to close 2016

› Or sooner if funds run out

»Resource intensive

› Administration

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Janet - who’s involved?

» Strategic Technologies: e-Infrastructure – scheme support & management and admin

› consultancy contracts, project advice..., ongoing monitoring

» Customer Engagement

› discussions with potential customers

» Service Desk

› handling and ticketing enquiries

» Connections Team

» Finance – e-Infrastructure budget

»Marketing % comms – scheme promotion

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Further info and questions

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Janet eligibility policy https://community.jisc.ac.uk/library/janet-policies/eligibility-policy

Janet AUP https://community.jisc.ac.uk/library/acceptable-use-policy

Janet Reach application process https://community.jisc.ac.uk/system/files/public_images/Reach%20-%20Guidance%20for%20Applicants.pdf

EU Research, Development & Innovation Exemption to State Aid http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-586_en.htm

Reach on Jisc website https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/collaboration-through-e-infrastructure-janet-reach

Me: Mark.Tysom@jisc.ac.uk