The Fife and Tayside Metropolitan Area Network is one of the regional networks that comprise JANET

JANET

JANET is a private British government-funded computer network dedicated to education and research. All further- and higher-education organisations in the UK are connected to JANET, as are all the Research Councils; the majority of these sites are connected via 20 metropolitan area networks JANET...

. FaTMAN connects three universities University of Dundee

University of Dundee

The University of Dundee is a university based in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee on eastern coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland and with a small number of institutions elsewhere....

, University of St Andrews

University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...

 and University of Abertay Dundee

University of Abertay Dundee

The University of Abertay Dundee, usually known simply as Abertay University, is a modern university in Dundee, Scotland.- History :The University of Abertay Dundee was created in 1994, under government legislation granting the title University to the Dundee Institute of Technology...

 and five colleges to each other and to the JANET

JANET

JANET is a private British government-funded computer network dedicated to education and research. All further- and higher-education organisations in the UK are connected to JANET, as are all the Research Councils; the majority of these sites are connected via 20 metropolitan area networks JANET...

 backbone in the east of Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. The five colleges are Dundee College

Dundee College

Dundee College is a further education and higher education college in the city of Dundee, Scotland and was established in 1985 by the merger of Dundee College of Commerce and Kingsway Technical College....

, Angus College

Angus College

Angus College is a college in Arbroath, Scotland, which was founded in 1956. The institute currently teaches around 12,000 students and trainees.-External links:*...

, Adam Smith College

Adam Smith College

Adam Smith College is a Scottish further and higher education college located over various campuses across the county of Fife.-History:The college was formed on August 1, 2005 by the merger of Glenrothes College and Fife College and is named after Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, who...

, Carnegie College and Elmwood College

Elmwood College

Elmwood College is located in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. Elmwood College was officially declared open in 1972, after a few years of holding classes on borrowed premises. The college had started classes about twenty years earlier. There are full-time as well as part-time courses, work based courses, and...

. There is also an UoD Fife campus node. The University of Dundee is the Regional Network Operator.

External links

• Fife and Tayside Metropolitan Area Network http://www.fatman.net.uk/
• History of FaTMAN http://www.fatman.net.uk/history.htm