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From Philadelphia to Philadelphia: UbuntuNet Alliance www.ubuntunet.net. F F “Tusu” Tusubira , [email protected]. Contents. The Beginning.. The Alliance Today Current Operations Sustainability Fibre Opportunites mapped AfricaConnect : Filling the Regional Gaps. What we believe. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
From Philadelphia to Philadelphia:
UbuntuNet Alliance
www.ubuntunet.net
F F “Tusu” Tusubira, [email protected]
Contents• The Beginning..• The Alliance Today• Current Operations• Sustainability• Fibre Opportunites mapped• AfricaConnect: Filling the Regional Gaps
What we believe..
“We know that we have it in ourselves as Africans, to change all this [the challenges we face]. We must assert our will to do so. We must say there is no obstacle big enough to stop us from bringing about an African renaissance.”
...Nelson Mandela
The beginning..Mid 2005: High cost of access; Availability of terrestrial fibre; EASSy cable plans: catalystsEmbryonic/ developing NRENs in 5 countries (KENET, MAREN, MoRENet, RwEdNet, TENET) Side meeting of Africans and Friends (Chaired by Steve Song; supported by PHEA and IDRC): RREN MootedInformal chat among African pioneers in the lobby, Duncan Martin of TENET mooted the name “Ubuntu” UbuntuNet Alliance Incorporated in March 2006.
The Alliance TodayEb@le, DRC
EthERNet, EthiopiaiRENALA, Mozambique
*KENET, Kenya *MAREN, Malawi
*MoRENet, MozambiqueXNet, Namibia
*RwEdNet, Rwanda SomaliREN, Somalia
SudREN, Sudan Southern Sudan (de facto)*TENET, South Africa
TERNET, Tanzania RENU, Uganda
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Current Operations
UbuntuNet, London
Internet
UbuntuNet, Mtunzini
LINXGÉANT AMS-IX
UbuntuNet, Amsterdam
MoRENet
KENET
TENET
TERNETZAMREN 10Gbps,
SEACOM
5Gbps, WACS
HartRAO to JIVE light path• 2 Gbps light path• Transfers e-VLBI data in real time• HartRAO (Hartebeesthoek Radio-Astronomy
Observatory, South Africa)• JIVE: (e-VLBI Dataprocessing at Zwingeloo,
Netherlands)
UbuntuNet Géant+
TENET SurfNet
HartRAO SurfNet
Financial Sustainability:A Key Principle
Fibre opportunities mapped..
SLIDE 10
The Research and Education Network for sub-Saharan Africa
AfricaConnect: Filling part of the regional connectivity gap
SLIDE 11
The Research and Education Network for sub-Saharan Africa
AfricaConnect: Filling part of the regional connectivity gap
LusakaBlantyre
Nairobi
Mombasa
Dar es Salaam
Kampala
Kigali
Maputo
Mtunzini
Windhoek
Kinshasa
Terrestrial Ring: Nairobi Kampala Kigali Dar
Backbone Ring: Nairobi Dar Maputo Mtunzini
Backbone:Windhoek
Mtunzini
Backbone:Kinshasa Mtunzini.
Khartoum
Cape Town
SLIDE 12
The Research and Education Network for sub-Saharan Africa
AfricaConnect: Contractual Arrangements
UbuntuNet Member NRENs
. . . . . . . .
SLIDE 13
The Research and Education Network for sub-Saharan Africa
AfricaConnect: Financing
• NRENs must come up with €2.8 million• Each NREN asked to commit to €280k• Treated as advance payments for
services to be rendered by UbuntuNet• Incentive: dicsounted prices for those
who pay in advance
To Our Many Friend: PHEA, IDRC, OSISA, FRENIA (ANDREW
MELLON), USAID, IEEAF, EUC, AAU, Cisco, SEACOM, NSRC..
We say:Asante Sana! Murakoze! Zikomo
Kwambili! Natondio Mingi!Thank you! Merci Beaucoup!
“When the webs of a spider combine, they can trap a lion” – Ethiopian proverb