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SANREN The South African Research and Education Network -The Operating Partner’s Perspective

SANREN The South African Research and Education Network -The Operating Partner’s Perspective . Geoff Hoy. Partnerships. SANReN Competency Area. As at August 1997. Meraka Institute diagram of SANREN Network. As at August 2012. Network Diagram of SANREN . As at March 2012.

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SANREN The South African Research and Education Network -The Operating Partner’s Perspective

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  1. SANREN The South African Research and Education Network -The Operating Partner’s Perspective Geoff Hoy

  2. Partnerships SANReN Competency Area

  3. As at August 1997

  4. Meraka Institute diagram of SANREN Network As at August 2012

  5. Network Diagram of SANREN As at March 2012 Area of enlargement

  6. Enlargement of CTN ring

  7. 2002 2012

  8. March 2014 15 000% Traffic increase in 12 years + 2.5 Gbps of Google traffic

  9. The SANREN Network • Funded by DST • Procured by the SANReNCompetency Area of the Meraka Institute, CSIR • Operated by TENET

  10. Network Support http://www.ispsources.com/why-its-important-to-have-network-support-for-your-office.html

  11. Network Support Network Operations Centre NOC

  12. Network Support - NOC Call Centre - out on RFP

  13. The Graphing system

  14. The Graphing system NOC Alerts

  15. The Engine Room – Network Engineers!

  16. 10 days • 15 emails • 7 Phone calls Site Commissioned ! The Engine Room – Network Engineers!

  17. Network Engineers A growing skills gap ! http://turbotodd.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/ibms-2012-tech-trends-report-skills-skills-and-more-skills/growing-skill-gap/ Across the four technology areas covered in the 2012 IBM Tech Trends Report – mobile, business analytics, cloud and social business – only one in ten organizations has all the skills it needs.

  18. Campus Readiness project

  19. April 2013 • Track 1 - Campus Network Design, Monitoring and Management • Goals • Train university network engineering staff on how to improve their campus network designs. • Learn to implement best practices in switched and routed networks. • Improve technical skills with university network personnel in network monitoring and management. • Strengthen the TENET technical community (human network) in developing TENET's cyberinfrastructure.

  20. April 2013 • Track 2 - Linux System Administration and IP Services • Goals • Train university network engineering staff on administering Unix/Linux systems • Learn to implement, operate and secure IP services (web, DNS, mail) on Linux servers

  21. April 2013

  22. Campus Readiness Training April 2013

  23. Building the NREN network community Training and workshops Form a NOG Community Based Resource Engineers Intern Programme

  24. Training and Workshops Network Security

  25. Training and Workshops

  26. Training and Workshops

  27. Training and Workshops Campus Network Design

  28. Internet Network Operators' Groups (NOGs) are informal groups which exist to provide forums for Internet network operators to discuss matters of mutual interest, usually through a combination of mailing lists and annual conferences.

  29. Community Based Resource Engineers

  30. Community Based Resource Engineers Remote Hands

  31. Network Training Internship None Available or Too expensive

  32. Network Training Internship Grow Your Own Timber

  33. Network Training Internship

  34. NREN Services Light Pathing Federated Identity

  35. NREN Services Video Conferencing

  36. NREN Services Collaboration with : In Future -

  37. NREN Collaboration High Performance Computing Grid Computing & Mesh Computing

  38. Where to now?

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