Transcript Iman Abu El Maaly, From dreams to achievement , Vice

12-13 December 2012, Dubai, UAE
Iman Abuel Maaly,
Vice-Chair, UbuntuNet Alliance, Sudan
1. The Alliance Today and Current Operations
2. Fiber Opportunities
3. Africa Connect Project: Connectivity, Services,
Capacity Building, and business model .
4. Success Factors
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Eb@le,
DRC
EthERNet, Ethiopia
iRENALA, Madagascar
*KENET,
Kenya
*MAREN, Malawi
*MoRENet, Mozambique
XNet,
Namibia
*RwEdNet, Rwanda
SomaliREN, Somalia
SudREN,
Sudan
Southern Sudan (de facto)
*TENET,
South Africa
TERNET, Tanzania
RENU,
Uganda
ZAMREN, Zambia
Alliance Membership (14)
Internet
LINX
GÉANT
UbuntuNet,
Amsterdam
UbuntuNet,
London
SudREN
5Gbps,
WACS
AMS-IX
ZAMREN
KENET
TERNET
MoRENet
TENET
UbuntuNet,
Mtunzini
10Gbps,
SEACOM
• 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
TENET
HartRAO
Géant+
SurfNet
SurfNet
The Research and Education Network
for sub-Saharan Africa
SLIDE 7
Terrestrial Ring: Nairobi
 Kampala  Kigali 
Dar
Khartoum
Kinshasa
Backbone:
Kinshasa 
Mtunzini.
Windhoek
Backbone:
Windhoek 
Mtunzini
Cape Town
Kampala
Kigali
Nairobi
Mombasa
Lusaka
Dar es Salaam
Blantyre
Maputo
Backbone Ring: Nairobi 
Dar  Maputo 
Mtunzini
Mtunzini
The Research and Education Network
for sub-Saharan Africa
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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
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
• 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
• 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
• 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