JANET and Schools' Networking

Schools Networking

The Scottish Schools Digital Network (SSDN) provides each local authority in Scotland with a common set of ICT services for use by publicly funded schools in Scotland. The SuperJANET backbone is used to interconnect the local authority schools networks and other key organisations for this purpose. The local authorities are:

1	Aberdeen City	17	Highland
2	Aberdeenshire	18	Inverclyde
3	Angus	19	Midlothian
4	Argyll & Bute	20	Moray
5	Borders, Scottish	21	North Ayrshire
6	Clackmannanshire	22	North Lanarkshire
7	Dumfries and Galloway	23	Orkney Islands
8	Dundee City	24	Perthshire & Kinross
9	East Ayrshire	25	Renfrewshire
10	East Dunbartonshire	26	Shetland Islands
11	East Lothian	27	South Ayrshire
12	East Renfrewshire	28	South Lanarkshire
13	Edinburgh City	29	Stirling
14	Falkirk	30	West Dunbartonshire
15	Fife	31	West Lothian
16	Glasgow City	32	Western Isles - Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar

Key education organisations connected to the SSDN:

Schools in Scotland are now interconnected to Universities and Colleges in Scotland via the following JANET Regional Network Operators:

AbMAN - Aberdeen Metropolitan Area Network
Clydenet - Clyde Area Network
EaStMAN - Edinburgh and Stirling Metropolitan Area Network
FaTMAN - Fife and Tayside Metropolitan Area Network
UHI Network - University of the Highlands & Islands Network

A workshop organised by the SEED and JANET(UK) took place on 12 December 2002 in Glasgow. The following sets of slides presented at the workshop are available in PDF format:

Presentations from Scottish Schools Digital Network (SSDN) DNS Training/Information Week