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African universities come together to set up NRENs and buy international bandwidth.(National Research and Education Networks )
Africa's universities took a step nearer joining their developed-world colleagues when a group decided that they would bid for international fiber capacity in the EASSy fiber project and that they would seek to encourage the setting up of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). This is the first time users have come together at this level in a bid to lower the price of connectivity. The vision of delivering very high speed--Gigabits-per-second connectivity instead of the current kilobits-per-second between African universities and research institutions--is driving the Alliance forward at a rapid pace.
In February 2005, at the Association of African Universities Conference in Cape Town, two important events occurred. The first was the identification of connectivity constraints as a major hindrance to rapid development of member universities. The second was the birth of SARUA, the Southern African Regional Universities Association, which is an association of Vice-Chancellors of all universities in the SADC region. The counterpart organization for the east African region is IUCEA--the Inter-University Council of East Africa.
Historically, for various reasons, bandwidth to African Universities costs many times what Universities elsewhere expect to pay. As Professor Bjorn Pehrson of KTH Sweden said, "The Universities of Africa are now making an entirely reasonable appeal, namely to have same connectivity with global research networks and the Internet as is enjoyed by Universities in every other continent."
By seeking to become an EASSy consortium member, the UbuntuNet Alliance is seeking affordable intra-regional and international connectivity in order to enable its member NRENs to give universities and research institutions the ability to exchange content and collaborate on research and education activities, both within the region and with worldwide partners. Access to EASSy will ...
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