What networking research is happening in universities?

This small, full-time unit became the Network Unit, set up with a two-year remit from 1 November 1976 to 31 October 1978. Its three members spent those two years travelling the length and breadth of the country, visiting every one of the then 50 universities to obtain a comprehensive view of what was happening in data communications and to understand the requirements of users and service providers. The Network Unit also wrote two reports, concluding with the recommendation that ‘all network development should be carried out according to a programme formulated and supervised by a full-time Joint Network Team (JNT). The JNT would be an executive successor to the Network Unit.’