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U buntuNet Alliance: From Dreams To Achievement ubuntunet

U buntuNet Alliance: From Dreams To Achievement www.ubuntunet.net. 12-13 December 2012, Dubai, UAE. Iman Abuel Maaly , Vice-Chair, UbuntuNet Alliance, Sudan . Contents. U buntuNet Alliance: From Dreams To Achievement The Alliance Today and Current Operations Fiber Opportunities

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  1. UbuntuNet Alliance: From Dreams To Achievementwww.ubuntunet.net 12-13 December 2012, Dubai, UAE ImanAbuelMaaly, Vice-Chair, UbuntuNet Alliance, Sudan

  2. Contents UbuntuNet Alliance: From Dreams To Achievement • The Alliance Today and Current Operations • Fiber Opportunities • Africa Connect Project: Connectivity,Services, Capacity Building, and business model . • Success Factors

  3. 1. The Alliance Today: Membership Eb@le, DRC EthERNet, Ethiopia iRENALA, Madagascar *KENET, Kenya *MAREN, Malawi *MoRENet, Mozambique XNet, Namibia *RwEdNet, Rwanda SomaliREN, Somalia SudREN, Sudan Southern Sudan (de facto) *TENET, South Africa TERNET, Tanzania RENU, Uganda ZAMREN, Zambia Alliance Membership (14)

  4. 1. The Alliance Today: Current Operations Internet • GÉANT AMS-IX LINX UbuntuNet, Amsterdam UbuntuNet, London SudREN KENET 5Gbps, WACS TERNET ZAMREN 10Gbps, SEACOM MoRENet TENET UbuntuNet,Mtunzini

  5. 1. The Alliance Today: Current Operations 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 Data processing at "D“ wingeloo, Netherlands) Géant+ UbuntuNet TENET SurfNet HartRAO SurfNet

  6. 2. Fibre Opportunities (Regional And Global) Increasing

  7. 3. AfricaConnect: Filling part of the regional connectivity gap

  8. Terrestrial Ring: Nairobi  Kampala  Kigali  Dar Khartoum Kinshasa Kampala Nairobi Backbone:Kinshasa  Mtunzini. Kigali Mombasa Dar es Salaam Lusaka Blantyre Windhoek Maputo Backbone:Windhoek Mtunzini Backbone Ring: Nairobi  Dar  Maputo  Mtunzini Cape Town Mtunzini 3. AfricaConnect: Filling part of the regional connectivity gap

  9. 3. Africaconnect:Capacity Building Approaches/ Opportunities • The Twinning umbrella • Secondment of experts to NRENs • Attachment to advanced networks • Workshops to address common capacity building needs (online as much as possible) • Implementation of AfricaConnect • Establishment of a regional online lab • Working with identified universities to improve engineering curricula

  10. 3. Africaconnect:The Four Major Serviceswe Offer 1. African Transit Service (IPv4 or IPv6): • IP Interconnectivity within Africa with other UbuntuNet NRENs and African commodity peers and transits 2. Global Transit Service (IPv4 of IPv6): • IP Interconnectivity worldwide withRegional RENs the Internet (delivered at LINX, AMSIX)

  11. 3. Africaconnect:The Four Major Serviceswe Offer 3. Intercontinental Connectivity Service: • Layer 2 Interconnectivity between Africa and Europe (UbuntuNet Backbone Hub in Africa to UbuntuNet Hub in Amsterdam or London) 4. Intercontinental Restoration Service: • Protects individual specified circuit in the event of submarine cable outage

  12. 3. Africaconnect:Cost Recovery Principles • Sustainability: • Alliance must recover full costs (Operating and Overhead)from its Member NRENS • Geographic Agnosticism: • The same base charges apply everywhere • Charges shall be set from time to time by Board of the Alliance to ensure sustainability of operations

  13. 4. Success Factors • The Real Need – many universities still pay >$2,000 per Mbps/month (target: <$100); • Development opportunity: reaching out to all levels of education; • Market impact/ dividend: negotiated reduction in BW cost will drive the entire BW market; • Alliance community commitment: Already raisied > €1.2m of our contribution; • Policy level awareness of benefits in Africa • EUC support and goodwill

  14. Prognosis: • Our Success is not an IF Question; it is a WHEN Question! • Appreciation: DANTE and other EUC NREN partners; our friends CLARA, C@ribNet, ASREN, WACREN • EUC and the People of Europe – Thank You! AfricaConnect has brought the WHEN a lot closer; and AfricaConnect 2 would bring the success tomorrow • Always remember: a helping hand brings mutual benefit

  15. Thanks for listening

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