Biography
Tim started his career in BBC Radio and TV where he rose to become Head of Events Group and was responsible for TV production of major national events, sports, factual and entertainment content. In 1990 Tim moved to Walt Disney as Senior Vice-President responsible for all international TV production. In 2000 he joined a new "dotcom", Wide Learning, as Chief Operating Officer, a company producing high quality commercial e-learning content for the financial and regulatory sectors. In March 2005 he became CEO at Janet(UK), the organisation responsible for developing and managing Janet, the UK's powerful world class research and education network. In 2012 the network was involved with BBC Research in broadcasting Super Hi-Vision (8k) from the London 2012 Olympics. Tim is a graduate of Southampton University in Sociology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the British Computer Society and member of the Royal Television Society. Tim has been engaged by the Athens, Beijing and London Olympics as a quality controller of international TV production and has had a special achievement award named after him at the National Association of Student TV Awards. For his charitable work he produces the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall and is this year producing a West End Show for injured servicemen and women.
Abstract
A demonstration of value
The investment to build Janet6 as the next generation of the UK's national research and education network will add value across the sector from high-end research to universities, colleges and schools. It will also enable research to stay competitive on both a national and international level, and support the £60bn contribution that HE brings to the UK economy. Managing the network to the optical layer ensures that for the next decade we can achieve maximum agility and scalability to meet customer demands. The new operating model for Janet6 will allow us to do so very cost-effectively in these challenging times. Research shows that as institutions use innovative methods to deliver digital resources to their students, so their use of different devices over the network grows. In addition to the normal Moore's Law increase, there will also be massive data requirements from data intensive research. The high capacity Janet network means that research in biomedical sciences, climate science and genomics can continue at current rates, even with the need for the transfer of large data sets, as well as high performance computing, that are needed for research and analysis in these subject areas. In such a volatile and changing market, Tim Marshall explores how we can ensure that we deliver value to customers in response to continually changing and demanding requirements.
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