FEAST

The TERENA Compendium of NRENs& Data Collection from

African NRENs & NRENs in Construction

Ubuntunet Connect 2008Lilongwe, MalawiTuesday 11 November

John DYER

TERENA

John.Dyer@terena.org

Why?

› To collect baseline information

› Understand what is in place, what is not, advantages, problems to be solved

› Make a road map of what needs to be done

› To Benchmark Progress on an Annual basis

› Why TERENA ?

What is TERENA?

› TRANS-EUROPEAN RESEARCH & EDUCATION NETWORKING ASSOCIATION

› Collaborative Organisation › Driven by membership› Task Forces› Projects

› GN2 – Compendium› Developing NRENs

› Workshops› International Conference

› TERENA does not operate a network› GÉANT2 - DANTE

GÉANT2

operated by DANTE on behalf of Europe’s NRENs

The TERENA Compendium

› Annual Survey 2001-2008 (eight years so far . . . .)› Contribution from European Commission FP6› Comprehensive Benchmarking of NRENs› Expanding and Collaborating with other regions

› http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/

2008 Compendium Coverage

Compendium Scope

› BASIC Information› administrative, ownership, governance

› USERS and CLIENTS› Institutions and users connected

› NETWORK CONNECTIVITY› Network size, speeds, technologies, pops etc

› TRAFFIC› Utilization, external, IPv6, QoS

› SERVICES› AAI, Storage hosting, Grids, PERT, support, PR

› FUNDING and STAFFING› Sources, budgets, allocation

Core Network Size 2004 v 2008

› Scale is LOG› Increase by about an order of magnitude on

average

NREN Budgets 2004 v 2008

› With a few exceptions, budgets are stable› Major upgrades cause peaks› But bandwidth increased by an order of

magnitude in the same period

NREN Traffic Growth

Growth of Cross-border Dark Fibre2007 - 2008

Percentage of Schools Served

› Varies enormously

› Prevented by law in some countries

› Encouraged and funded by government in others

Compendium demonstrates

› Digital Divide› Highly dependent on market competition

› Funding Models› Central funding, user funding, hybrid

› NREN approaches to Quality of Service› Traffic Engineering v Over provisioning

› Growth of Cross Border Fibre Trend› Procurement & Management from centre v local

› How NRENs keep pace with demand› Low utilization rates and headroom

› etcetera, etcetera . . . .

African Participation in TERENA Compendium

› 2008 - Uganda (RENU)

› 2007 - Mozambique (MoRENet)

› 2006 - Uganda (RENU)

› ALL AFRICAN NATIONS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE in the TERENA COMPENDIUM

› Next Edition Questionnaire will be launched April 2009 ONLINE data collection

› Contact: John DYER of TERENA: dyer@terena.org

The FEAST survey

› Based upon the TERENA Compendium Questionnaire (2001-2008)

› European Commission supported GÉANT2 NA4 Activity - assistance to the development of research and education networking in less-advanced regions (2004-2009)

› Work undertaken for the TERENA Regulatory Workshop (2008)

Questionnaire Structure

FOR ALL EXISTING NRENS or NRENs in-construction

› 1: NREN Basic information and legal form › 2: Existing or Proposed Customer Base and "Market Share" › 3: Network Capacity › 4: Network Traffic › 5: Staffing › 6. Funding › 7: Current/Planned, Technologies, Services, Research› 8: Regulation & Local Telecommunications / Internet Market › 9: Additional Information

The FEAST Questionnaire

› There are many questions (SORRY!)

› We will help you if things seem unclear› Email: feast-survey-2008@terena.org

› Please answer all you can

Section 1

BasicInformation

Section 2

Section 4

NetworkTraffic

Section 6

Funding/Proposed Funding

DNS

Section 8

Telecoms Regulation

LocalTelecomsMarket

Summary

› Please try to answer as many FEAST survey questions as possible.

› Send in even if not complete› Also relevant documents

› Topology Maps, Current / Planned› Descriptions of NREN, Client, Services, Governance

› We are here to assist, please ask for help› feast-survey-2008@terena.org› Telephone

› THANK YOU