1. Research and Education Network -The Operating Partner’s Perspective
SANREN
The South African
Research and Education Network
-The Operating Partner’s Perspective
Geoff Hoy

2. Partnerships
SANReN Competency Area

3. As at
August 1997

4. Meraka Institute diagram of SANREN Network
As at
August 2012

5. Network Diagram of SANREN
As at March 2014
Area of enlargement

6. Enlargement of CTN ring

7. 2002
23 Mbps
2012
- 4 Gbps

8. March 2015 9 Gbps >> 20 000% Traffic increase in 12 years
Gbps of Google traffic
+ 2 Gbps of Akamai traffic
>> % Traffic
increase
in 12 years

9. The SANREN Network
Funded by DST
Procured by the SANReN Competency Area of the Meraka Institute, CSIR
Operated by TENET

10. Network Support

11. Network Operations Centre
Network Support
Network Operations Centre
NOC

12. The Graphing system

13. The Engine Room – Network Engineers!

14. The Engine Room – Network Engineers!
10 days
15 s
7 Phone calls
Site Commissioned !
The Engine Room – Network Engineers!

15. Training and Workshops
Campus Network Design

16. NREN Services
Light Pathing
Federated Identity

17. NREN Services
Video Conferencing

18. NREN Services
Collaboration with :

19. NREN Collaboration High Performance Computing Grid Computing &
Mesh Computing

20. Where to now?