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1 AFRICA SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP Meeting April 25, 2017 Boubakar Barry, WACREN Urszula Chomicka, Internet Internet2
2 Africa Special Interest Group Proposed Agenda Introductions/Agenda bash (5 min.) WACREN update Boubakar Barry (10 min.) RENU update - Sarah Kiden (5 min.) ZAMREN Update Stein Mkandawire (5 min.) NEARR update - Jen Schopf (5 min.) FIU Update - Julio Ibarra (5 min.) Trust and Identity discussion Boubakar Barry (5 min). General discussion and moving forward (20 min.) [ 2 ] 2016 Internet2
3 WACREN UPDATE Boubakar Barry West and Central African Research and Education Network
4 Coverage [ 4 ] 2016 Internet2
5 Current Membership n RerBenin Benin n MaliREN Mali n FasoREN Burkina Faso n Niger-REN Niger n Cameroon RIC n NgREN Nigeria n RITER Côte d Ivoire n SLREN Sierra Leone n GabonREN Gabon n snrer Senegal n GARNET Ghana n TchadREN Tchad n GnREN Guinée n TogoRER Togo n Associate members: RENATER (FR), Eko-Konnect (NG) [ 5 ] 2016 Internet2
6 Proposed Network Topology [ 6 ] 2016 Internet2
7 Implementation Currently done under the AfricaConnect2 Project Procurement process started in June 2016 Several rounds of competitive dialogue Best and final offers received for first phase: Accra-Lagos-London Tender launched for Abidjan-Lagos / Abidjan-Accra link Direct dialogue with operators of terrestrial links started in Feb Equipment tender closed Meeting with bidders next month (May 2017) Target for network going live: Q3/Q [ 7 ] 2016 Internet2
8 Other activities Participation in H2020 projects (TANDEM, Sci-GaIA, MAGIC) - funded by EC Participation in NEEAR project - funded by NSF Initiative with Internet2 to strengthen Africa-US research collaboration Exploring establishment of WG on Trust and Identity involving AfREN (ASREN, UA, WACREN) and Internet2 Invitation to express interest and participate Contacts: Omo (Omo.Oaiya@wacren.net) and Urszula (uchomicka@internet2.edu) Capacity building (Africa Training Initiative - with UA and ASREN) Collaboration with NSRC, GEANT, ISOC and others Sensitization/awareness raising (still important and needed) [ 8 ] 2016 Internet2
9 THANK YOU! [ 9 ] 2016 Internet2
10 RENU Update Sarah Kiden Research and Education Network for Uganda
11 National Network Coverage *65 connected campuses
12 RENU Backbone Before international redundancy After international redundancy
13 Bandwidth costs Bandwidth Cost /Mbps / Month <=60 Mbps <250 Mbps $ Mbps < 750 $60 >=750 Mbps $50 Note: Cost started at $630/Mbps/Month
14 Capacity Building 7 residential workshops (Over 150 engineers trained 34 women) 3 online workshops (Over 50 engineers trained) 11 Direct Engineering Assistance (DEA) Exercises
15 Thank you!
16 A PRESENTATION ON RECENT ZAMREN ACCOMPLISHMENTS BY STEIN MKANDAWIRE AT THE INTERNET2 GLOBAL SUMMIT 2017
17 REGISTRATION STATUS 2007 REGISTERED AS A NON PROFIT MAKING ASSOCIATION UNDER SOCIETIES ACT 2011 LICENCED AS A CLOSE USE GROUP 2012 ZAMREN WAS OPERATIONALISED 2016 REGISTRATION CHANGED FROM SOCIETIES ACT TO PACRA AS A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE 2016 LICENCE CHANGED TO AN ISP
18 ZAMREN GROWTH 100 MEMBERSHIP GROWTH GROWTH RATE
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20 INTERNET UPTAKE 2500 ZAMREN INTERNET UPTAKE IN Mbps BANDWIDTH
21 ZAMREN COVERAGE AREA IN ZAMBIA
22 GROWTH PLANS FOR 2017 u TRAIN THE TWO NETWORK ENGINEERS IN JUNIPER ROUTERS u PROCURE TWO JUNIPER MX480 ROUTERS u PROCURE AND DEPLOY 250 APs FOR 51 INSTITUTIONS u DEPLOY EDUROAM IN 51 INSTITUTIONS u PROCURE AND INSTALL 24 POWER BACKUP BATTERIES FOR THE 12 PoPs u PROCURE ONE PAIR OF VIDEO CONFERENCING EQUIPMENT u PROCURE SSL CERTIFICATES FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF EDUROAM u CONDUCT DEA IN 51 INSTITUTIONS u GROW MEMBERSHIP TO 90 PLUS
23 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS NETWORK STARTUP RESOURCE CENTRE (NSRC): 2016 DONATED 22 NETWORK SWITCHES & 12 WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS VALUED AT $30,000 PLUS SUPPORT OF STAFF EXCHANGE WITH RENU. INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AVAILABILITY OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION: FUNDING OF $20, FOR TRAINING NETWORK ADMINISTRATORS IN ZAMREN S MEMBER INSTITUTIONS
24 LOCAL PARTNERS ZESCO FREE RIDE ON THEIR COUNTRYWIDE OPTIC FIBRE. ZICTA FUNDING OF LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS TO ZESCO OPTIC FIBRE NETWORK. UNVERSITY OF ZAMBIA SUPPORT FOR OFFICE ACCOMMODATION AND UTILITY BILLS.
25 SERVICES INTERNET EDUROAM VIRTUAL SERVICES FEDERATED IDENTITY VIDEO CONFERENCING FOR ODL DATA CENTRE
26 CHALLENGES LOW SKILLS LEVEL IN MEMBER INSTITUTIONS NEED FUNDING TO CARRY CAPACITY BUILDING NEED INFRASTRACTURES TO DEPLOY EDUROAM (SERVERS, SWITCHES & APs) INTERNATIONAL PARTNETSHIPS EXPAND SERVICE PORTIFOLIO
27 END OF PRESENTATION THANK YOU
28 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS At Indiana University Networks for European, American, and African Research: NEAAR Jennifer M. Schopf, PhD Director, International Networks Indiana University March 3-, 2017 Supported by the National Science Foundation
29 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS At Indiana University NEAAR: Networks for European, American, and African Research Funded Sept 17 - National Science Foundation $3.25M over 4 years Partners: Indiana University GEANT UbuntuNet Alliance WACREN ASREN SANREN/TENET With additional letters of support from 8 Application groups, NSRC, Internet2, ESNet, +
30 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS At Indiana University Goals Enable additional science collaborations between Africa and US (as well as between Europe and US) Enable measurement and monitoring to understand performance Collaborate to deploy exchange point Work closely with regional partners to meet their needs
31 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS At Indiana University NEAAR Networking in a Nutshell 100G circuit US to Europe, in part to support R&E traffic from Africa New York to London AE Connect Cable In production this month Exchange point and data transfer node (DTN) in Western Africa Collaborative with Africa Connect 2 circuits
32 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS At Indiana University
33 More than just a Network: PerfSONAR training Application outreach INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS At Indiana University
34 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS At Indiana University PerfSONAR Active measurement tool Bandwidth and latency Dropped packets Over 2,000 R&E deployments world wide Small node options and deployments Kenya, Malaysia, partial ilight
35 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS At Indiana University KENET perfsonar Deployment 7 sites now deployed. One at each KENET POP (indicated on the map as red dots) and a second node in Nairobi at the USIU data center Personnel from Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) and IN@IU assisted with training and resources ash-webui/
36 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS At Indiana University perfsonar and NEAAR Several workshops in each region Deployments, debugging, understanding results S. Africa May 1-5 (CapeTown, Pretoria) Western Africa Oct 2017 ASRen in December 2017? Different meshes can talk to same test points for different results More test points will give more information
37 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS At Indiana University Science Engagement Who s using the links? Who s having problems using the links? How do we better support science? As we contact groups, and groups contact us How can we put in place process for support? How can we enable long term encouragement and aid?
38 Acknowledgements NEAAR is funded by US NSF award # More information: INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS38 At Indiana University
39 Introduction to AARCLight: Americas Africa Research and education Lightpaths Internet Global Summit Africa Special Interest Working Group April 25, 2017 Julio Ibarra, PI Heidi Morgan, Co-PI Donald Cox, Co-PI Luis Lopez, Co-PI
40 AARCLight: Americas Africa Research and education Lightpaths, Award #ACI Aims to define a strategy for research and education network connectivity between the US and West Africa Aims to coordinate planning efforts among stakeholders in the U.S., Africa, and Brazil Aims to create economies of scale making use of the offered spectrum towards serving the broadest communities of interest in research and education 40
41 Confluence of Opportunities New data-intensive science instruments in the southern hemisphere: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Chile SKA in South Africa New submarine cables in South Atlantic EulaLink submarine cable from Fortaleza to Portugal SACS submarine cable to Angola (Q3 2018) South Atlantic Inter-Link (SAIL) to Cameroon (2018) Network aggregation in the southern hemisphere Fortaleza as a south Atlantic hub Leveraging network infrastructure linking the U.S., South America, and Africa 41
42 Planned Activities Knowledge sharing between the network engineers Increase understanding of where network aggregation is developing or planned Representation of the network between Africa, Brazil, U.S. Engaging science communities Explore focused workshops with U.S. and African researchers Engage early adopters Increase understanding of needs for network and e- Infrastructure resources Developing a strategy for research and education network connectivity between the US and Africa 42
43 Thank You!
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