tanzania education and research network (ternet)
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Mr. Stephen John LukindoTERNET Technical CommitteeAssociate Director Information Resource ManagementJanuary, 2012TRANSCRIPT
Tanzania Education and Research Network
(TERNET)
Mr. Stephen John Lukindo TERNET Technical Committee
Associate Director Information Resource Management
January, 2012
Agenda
• Introduc.on • Poten.al members of TERNET • TERNET Milestones • Status of NICTBB • Current Status of TERNET • Use and Benefits • Challenges • Collabora.ons with USA ins.tu.ons
Popula.on: 43 million Demographics • gender
– Women: 51% – Men 49%
• age group -‐ Under 30 -‐ Over 30
Official Languages • Kiswahili and English
GDP growth: 6.5% (2010) , 6.7% (2011 est.) – Source: IndexMundi represen.ng CIA fact book
Economic Occupation:
• 70% of the pop work in agriculture and live in rural areas • Exports (gold, diamond, coffee, tea, cotton, sisal, wood, paper, cashew nuts) • Imports (consumer goods like foodstuffs, machinery and transportation equipments, industrial raw materials, and crude oil)
POTENTIAL MEMBERS Level Primary Secondary Teachers
Training College
Public /Private Universi.es
Technical/ Voca.onal Educa.on
No. of Ins.tu.on
15,816 4,102 77 33 230
Source: TCU & NACTE Website
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TERNET Milestones • 2000 -‐ the need for a NREN was realised • January, 2002, 16 Higher EducaDon InsDtuDons (HEIs) signed a MoU to establish NREN TERNET.
• March, 2007 – TERNET, was formally consDtuted – Interim Leadership – 21 InDtuDons signed MOU – ConsDtuDon was then draSed
• 11th April, 2008 – TERNET registered as a Trust • 18th April, 2008 -‐ TERNET become member of UBUNTUNET ALLIANCE
• The STM-‐1 submarine fibre circuit live since March 2011
– connecDng COSTECH NOC with Ubuntunet in London – nominal bandwidth 155 Mbps.
• The IP address allocaDon requested from AfriNIC -‐ assigned in February, 2010, IP block number 41.93.0.0 /17 or Autonomous System Number 37182
• 47 TERNET members of which 20 are acDve members
TERNET Milestones cont’d
Status of NaDonal ICT Backbone (NICTBB)
TERNET ConnecDvity Today
Cisco 7609 TERNET core router
Cisco 3800 router Tanzania
Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH)
Sonicwall router
College of Business Education
TERNET switch7609 UBUNTUNET CORE
ROUTER LONDON
BGP PEERING over STM-1(155Mbps) link
Gigabit Ethernet via
UTP link provisioned for 40Mbps
Cisco 2800 router The Open
University of Tanzania
Leased fibre link
provisioned for 10Mbps
Gigabit Ethernet via
UTP link provisioned for 10Mbps
Leased Wireless link provisioned for 10Mbps
Cisco 2800 router The
Hubert Kairuki Memorial University
Leased fibre link
provisioned for 10Mbps
Leased Wireless link provisioned for 10Mbps
Cisco router The Ministry of
Education and Vocational
Training
Current Status -‐ Connected InsDtuDons • Nine insDtuDons connected -‐
• Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH)
• College of Business Educa.on • Open University of Tanzania. • Hubert Kairuki Memorial University • Ministry of Educa.on and Voca.onal Training • Ardhi University • Dar es salaam Ins.tute of Technology • Ins.tute of Social Work • Na.onal Accredita.on for Technical Educa.on (NACTE)
Current Use and Benefits
• Internet Service current free of charge-‐ contribuDon mechanism underway
• Sharing of educaDon and research resources • UDlizaDon of super computer at DIT
Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series No.1
Challenges • Infrastructure
– High installaDon and recurring costs for middle and last mile loop – Ownership, operaDons and maintenance
• Capacity building of IT staff at insDtuDons – requires more training
• The NOC -‐ requires updated equipment
– servers DNS, Mail, HTTP, network monitoring, and Bandwidth manager
• Serious issue with power and power backup.
– The ba`ery inverter was providing 4 hours backup Dme.
Future development plans for the physical network
• Immediate plans –
– connect insDtuDons to the NOC at COSTECH – a mix of fibre and wireless local loops – Up to 1Gbps (vs 2 to 5 Mbps wireless)
• Long-‐term plan –
– UDlize na.onal ICT backbone to connect ins.tu.ons – local and other regions
• Points of Presence (PoPs) -‐
– Dodoma, Mwanza, and Arusha – linked back to the NOC at COSTECH via the NICTBB.
CollaboraDons (US universiDes, Internet2, etc)
• Management of NREN – O&M • Capacity Building • Equipments provision-‐server rooms • ICT Infrastructure provision-‐ wireless
Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series No.1
Asante kwa kusikiliza
Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series No.1