eGYAfrica Workshop: better Internet connectivity eGYAfrica Workshop: better Internet connectivity for research and education in Africafor research and education in Africa

Accra, 24-25 November 2010Accra, 24-25 November 2010

Dr Daniel NYANGANYURAICSU Regional Office for Africad.nyanganyura@icsu-africa.org

www.icsu-africa.org

South African National Research Network

South African National Research Network (SANReN)

• The DST tasked the Meraka Institute with the planning and deployment of this network – results to anytime now

• Original plan called for inter-institution links of up to 500 Mbit/s and international bandwidth of 1Gbit/s but with most sites now expecting to connect at speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s

• International Internet connectivity will be provided over the SEACOM submarine fibre

• SANReN provide its clients with connectivity to the world's research networks as well as commodity Internet access

• In 2005, South African government thru DST provided ZAR 365 million (~USD 5 million) for a three-year project to develop SANReN & further research aims

South African National Research Network (SANReN)

• Meraka gone (2006) into partnership TENET - a provider of academic networking in South Africa and signed an MoU in which TENET Under their memorandum of understanding, Meraka would build SANReN and TENET would operate it

• As of September 2008, SANReN has connected three higher educational institutes in Gauteng: the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Johannesburg, and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research