 JANET was previously a private, UK government-funded organisation, which provided the Janet computer network and related collaborative services to UK research and education.All further- and higher-education organisations in the UK are connected to the Janet network, as are all the Research Councils; the majority of these sites are connected via 20 metropolitan area networks across the UK (though Janet refers to these as regions, emphasising that Janet connections are not just confined to a metropolitan area).The network also carries traffic between schools within the UK, although many of the schools' networks maintain their own general Internet connectivity.