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 [email protected]
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