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UbuntuNet
Duncan Martin
Planning Workshop amongst IEEAF, RENU and UbuntuNet Kampala, 16 – 17 October 2007
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What is UbuntuNet?• Organisation
• Purpose
• Strategy
• Projects
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UbuntuNet: organisation• Born at WSIS in 2005
– Incorporated in 2006 in Amsterdam– Non-profit association
• Members are African NRENs– KENET, MAREN, MoRENet, RwEdNet, SUIN,
TENET– Soon also RENU, TERNET, ZAMNET, others
• Board of 9 directors– Chairperson: Prof Zimani D Kadzamira– Company Secretary: Margaret Ngwira
• Development plan– Establish services and concomitant revenue– Establish home base in Nairobi– Appoint CEO, technical officer, admin officer
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UbuntuNet: purpose• Develop and improve connectivity between
member NRENs and– other member NRENs– other RENs worldwide– the Internet generally.
• Provide related auxiliary services to member NRENs
• Develop the knowledge and skills of ICT practitioners in universities and research institutions in the region
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UbuntuNet: strategy• Focus on optical fibre
– Help manage the migration from VSAT• Develop UbuntuNet regional backbone
– Vision: REN backbone for Sub-Saharan Africa– Strategy: Develop sub-regional “clusters”– Reality: Not one cross-border link realised yet
• Worldwide REN connectivity– The vision: High-speed connectivity to the World– The reality: No submarine cables; no backhaul– BUT: what about the SEACOM? IEEAF?
• The Géant connection– Tunneled connections to Géant for all institutions– Connect via an UbuntuNet hub in Europe
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Projects: Cluster development
UbuntuNet East Cluster
UbuntuNet South Cluster Southern
TZ
LS
BWNA
ZM
MW
MZSA
SW
UG
Northern TZ
KE
SD
ET
EG
RW
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GéantGéantGeneral
Internet
UbuntuNet router
Projects: The Géant connection
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• Completed tasks– ASN, IPv4 and IPv6 address space from AfriNIC– CISCO 7606 router donated by CISCO– Installed in DANTE’s cage in Telecity, London– REN transit connection to Géant
• To be organised in next few weeks– 1 Gb/s connection to LINX– Settlement-free peering with all comers– Internet transit
• Soon– 1 Gb/s connection to Abilene
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Projects: Incorporating VSAT campuses
UbuntuNet router
UbuntuNet routers at VSAT teleports in
Europe
VSAT-dependent
campuses all over Africa
Backhauls to London
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Projects: Incorporate PHEA Bandwidth Consortium
• Existing consortium of universities that buy VSAT capacity– 6 in Nigeria; 3 in Ghana, Makerere, Nairobi, Dar– Consortium initially created by PHEA– Located in AVU, Nairobi– Needs new home
• Can UbuntuNet provide that new home?– IDRC and PHEA sounded out UbuntuNet– But UbuntuNet needs to establish capacity– Leadership from IDRC’s Steve Song
• Matter being finalised
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