1. GISC PRETORIA
STATUS REPORT

2. 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
South Africa (Pretoria) was approved by CG/EC on the 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 April 2014 and was found to be compliant with all requirements
GISC Pretoria was endorsed by the WMO on 15 May 2014

3. Hardware Infrastructure
Discover Weather server
Virtual (Vmware), Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 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

4. 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

5. Software Installed
The operating system installed on the GISC server is CentOS 6.2 ( 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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
Botswana
Lesotho
Malawi
Mozambique
Namibia
South Africa
GISC
WIS/GISC
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.

9. 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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