GISC PRETORIA STATUS REPORT

Road map for Implementation of GISC Pretoria Pretoria is a Regional Telecommunication Hub (RTH) for the Southern African region Pretoria was under review as the GISC and DCPC by ET-GDDP since 2011-06-01 South Africa (Pretoria) was approved by CG/EC on the 22-05-2013 as a National Center (NC) An Information Management System was acquired from IBL Software Engineering in second half of 2013 GISC Pretoria was audited on 14-15 April 2014 and was found to be compliant with all requirements GISC Pretoria was endorsed by the WMO on 15 May 2014

Hardware Infrastructure Discover Weather server Virtual (Vmware), Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz (2 cores), 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD Duplicated hardware at DR site (vmware) which is situated at SAWS Johannesburg office For redundancy, the GISC server is replicated daily to the DR site

Network Infrastructure SAWS is connected to MTN via RMDCN 2Mbs, implemented in 2011 Linked to UKMET (GTS connection) on RMDCN since May 2012 International Internet bandwidth at Internet Solutions of 6Mbs and SANREN 10Mb for international use National Internet connection of 1Gbs

Software Installed The operating system installed on the GISC server is CentOS 6.2 (2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64). The application software: Discover Weather Administration Portal version 1.4.4, running on GlassFish 3.1.2 Discover Weather Public Portal version 1.4.4, running on GlassFish 3.1.2 Moving Weather 1.6-7 Discover Weather helper applications 1.4.4 Oracle Database Standard Edition 11.2

Pretoria RTH connectivity RTH Pretoria GTS connections Country City Connection type Protocol Angola Luanda Internet gtssoc Botswana Gaberone Direct data line - 64Kbs Kenya Nairobi La Reunion St. Denis FTP Lesotho Maseru Malawi Lilongwe/Blantyre Mozambique Maputo Namibia Windhoek Swaziland Matsapa UKMET Exeter RMDCN - 2Mbps Zambia Lusaka Zimbabwe Harare

Toulouse Rome Moscow Algiers Madrid Casablanca New Delhi Tunis Western Sahara Canary Tripoli Cairo Jeddah Offenbach Nouakchott Toulouse Khartoum Asmara Dakar Niamey Bamako Banjul Djibouti Ouagadougou Bissau N'djamena Addis Ababa Conakry Bangui Sal Freetown Entebbe Mogadiscio Accra Cotonou Lagos Monrovia Nairobi Abidjan Lome Douala Kigali Malabo Bujumbura Seychelles Libreville Brazzaville Dar Es Salaam Exeter Kinshasa Lusaka Lilongwe Mauritius Sao Tome Luanda RTH Harare Ascension Moroni St Denis NMC Windhoek Gaberone Centre in other region Maputo St. Helena Pretoria Antananarivo MTN circuit Manzini Maseru New Amsterdam Kerguelen Regional circuit Figure 1 Regional Meteorological Telecommunication Network for Region I (Africa) Interregional circuit

RA I WIS Centres connect through Pretoria Member / Org Centre type Function Region Principal GISC Const. Body Endorsement CBS Congress/EC Angola NC NMC RA I Pretoria CBS Approved by Cg/EC 2013-05-22 Botswana Lesotho Malawi Mozambique Namibia South Africa GISC WIS/GISC 2011-06-01 DCPC RTH Sudan Swaziland Zambia Zimbabwe Francis We also serve Lesotho, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola, Malawi. Madagascar made a request in April to be served by Pretoria.

Future Planning Training to be organized for NC’s connecting to GISC Pretoria is planned for early 2016 GISC Pretoria nominated Exeter as their backup GISC – backup arrangements need to be formalized Discovery metadata to be fully updated by data originators Become fully operational as a GISC middle 2016

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