UbuntuNet Alliance: From Dreams To Achievement
www.ubuntunet.net
Iman Abuel Maaly, Vice-Chair, UbuntuNet Alliance, Sudan
12-13 December 2012, Dubai, UAE
Contents
UbuntuNet Alliance: From Dreams To Achievement
1. The Alliance Today and Current Operations2. Fiber Opportunities3. Africa Connect Project: Connectivity, Services,
Capacity Building, and business model .
4. Success Factors
1. The Alliance Today: Membership1. Eb@le, DRC 2. EthERNet, Ethiopia3. iRENALA, Madagascar 4. *KENET, Kenya 5. *MAREN, Malawi 6. *MoRENet, Mozambique7. XNet, Namibia8. *RwEdNet, Rwanda 9. SomaliREN, Somalia 10. SudREN, Sudan 11. Southern Sudan (de facto)12. *TENET, South Africa 13. TERNET, Tanzania 14. RENU, Uganda 15. ZAMREN, Zambia
Alliance Membership (14)
UbuntuNet, London
Internet
UbuntuNet, Mtunzini
LINXGÉANT AMS-IX
UbuntuNet, Amsterdam
MoRENet
KENET
TENET
TERNETZAMREN 10Gbps,
SEACOM
5Gbps, WACS
SudREN
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)
UbuntuNet Géant+
TENET SurfNet
HartRAO SurfNet
1. The Alliance Today: Current Operations
2. Fibre Opportunities (Regional And Global) Increasing
SLIDE 7
The Research and Education Network for sub-Saharan Africa
3. AfricaConnect: Filling part of the regional connectivity gap
SLIDE 8
The Research and Education Network for sub-Saharan Africa
3. 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
3. Africaconnect: Capacity Building
• 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
Approaches/ Opportunities
3. Africaconnect: The Four Major Services we 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)
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
3. Africaconnect: The Four Major Services we Offer
• 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
3. Africaconnect: Cost Recovery Principles
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
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
THANKS FOR LISTENING
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