In 1994 the JNT Association took over the responsibility for the management of the Higher Education networking programme. The company trades as UKERNA.

UKERNA manages the operation and development of the JANET network under a Service Level Agreement from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC ) of the UK Higher and Further Education Funding Councils .

UKERNA is an certificated company. It originally gained certification to in June 1998 and successfully upgraded to the new standard in June 2003.

Mission Statement

Advancing and supporting the UK's education and research network.

UKERNA's objectives, as set out in the Memorandum of Association are,

"to take responsibility for the networking programme of the education, learning and research communities in the United Kingdom; and to research, develop and provide advanced electronic communication facilities for use within these communities, and to facilitate the electronic connectivity of these communities to external third parties."