National Education Network

The National Education Network is the private network connecting schools, colleges and universities in England. Built on the SuperJanet network it offers high quality links between institutions without being subject to the vagaries of the public internet.

Benefits of the NEN

For video conferencing this means that the voice and video data has the best chance to be transmitted from A to B, giving a clear and enjoyable experience.

Conferences that use the public Internet have to contend with unknown networks where data can take many routes, and be subjected to congestion caused by general Internet traffic - video conferencing's greatest worry. The NEN sends traffic over high speed private links, where traffic is managed to ensure that congestion is minimsed.