Transcript Duncan Martin

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/WASC/SAFE
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SAT-3/WASC Landing
Points
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SAFE Landing Points
1. Portugal
2. Spain (Canaries Islands)
3. Senegal
4. Côte d’ Ivoire
5. Ghana
6. Benin
7. Nigeria
8. Cameroon
9. Gabon
10. Angola
11. South Africa
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12. South Africa
13. France (Reunion)
14. Mauritius
15. India
16. Malaysia
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Tertiary Education Network of South Africa
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SAT-3 connectivity
to and from South Africa
Layer 2 pipes between Cape Town or Johannesburg and
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New York, NY
Ashburn, VA
London
Amsterdam
Back up pipe via SAFE cable
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Three-quarters of the way around the World from New York
Licensed ISPs can buy bandwidth from TELKOM SA
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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
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The TENET network
De facto South African NREN
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45 institutions; 90 connected campuses
Connects all public universities, CSIR, HSRC, MRC, NRF, WRC
Connects National U of Lesotho, U of Swaziland
Bandwidth facts
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125 Mb/s shared connectivity to general Internet internationally
via SAT-3; 45 Mb/s shared peering connections to other SA ISPs
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Campus connections: 128 kb/s - 19 Mb/s. Total 156 Mb/s
Network deployed and operated by TELKOM SA
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TENET treated as a “special” TELKOM customer
Uses TELKOM SA’s international peering and transit
arrangements
Costs the institutions around € 700 000 per month.
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Current Géant connectivity
to and from South Africa
The Internet
TELKOM SA
IP network
Abilene
Géant
TENET
network
CA*Net
etc
GRE tunnel through
TELKOM IP network
Tertiary Education Network of South Africa
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Really becoming part of the global REN
Proposed South African Research Network (SANReN)
SA Government is creating SANReN
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Department of Science and Technology (DST)
Has contracted TENET’s assistance
Driven by globalisation of science and research
Needs of “big e-science” projects
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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
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