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South African connectivity to Géant

South African connectivity to Géant. Workshop on EC Support to Research and Education Networking in Southern and Eastern Africa - Extending the reach of GÉANT Brussels, 6 – 7 March 2006. Duncan Martin SANReN / TENET. SAT-3 / SAWC / SAFE. SAT-3 connectivity to and from South Africa.

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South African connectivity to Géant

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  1. South African connectivity to Géant Workshop on EC Support to Research and Education Networking in Southern and Eastern Africa - Extending the reach of GÉANT Brussels, 6 – 7 March 2006 Duncan MartinSANReN /TENET

  2. SAT-3 / SAWC / SAFE Tertiary Education Network of South Africa

  3. SAT-3 connectivityto and from South Africa • Layer 2 pipes between Cape Town or Johannesburg and • New York, NY • Ashburn, VA • London • Amsterdam • Back up pipe via SAFE cable • Three-quarters of the way around the World from New York • Licensed ISPs can buy bandwidth from TELKOM SA • Very expensive indeed: ~ € 5,000 per Mb/s per month • TENET pays substantially less - TELKOM SA itself is TENET’s ISP • “Exclusivity period” ends on 18 April 2007 Tertiary Education Network of South Africa

  4. The TENET network • De facto South African NREN • 45 institutions; 90 connected campuses • Connects all public universities, CSIR, HSRC, MRC, NRF, WRC • Connects National U of Lesotho, U of Swaziland • Bandwidth facts • 125 Mb/s shared connectivity to general Internet internationally via SAT-3; 45 Mb/s shared peering connections to other SA ISPs • Campus connections: 128 kb/s - 19 Mb/s. Total 156 Mb/s • Network deployed and operated by TELKOM SA • TENET treated as a “special” TELKOM customer • Uses TELKOM SA’s international peering and transit arrangements • Costs the institutions around € 700 000 per month. Tertiary Education Network of South Africa

  5. The Internet TELKOM SAIP network Abilene Géant TENETnetwork CA*Netetc Current Géant connectivityto and from South Africa GRE tunnel through TELKOM IP network Tertiary Education Network of South Africa

  6. Really becoming part of the global REN • Proposed South African Research Network (SANReN) • SA Government is creating SANReN • Department of Science and Technology (DST) • Has contracted TENET’s assistance • Driven by globalisation of science and research • Needs of “big e-science” projects • Radio and optical astronomy, VLBI, ALICE Project, tropical medicine • “Connectable” institutions in other countries welcome • Will support IPv6 natively • Envisages dedicated connection to Géant (1 Gb/s?) • Envisages active membership of the UbuntuNet Alliance • Will absorb, replace or co-exist with the TENET network Tertiary Education Network of South Africa

  7. Thanks for listening! Tertiary Education Network of South Africa

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