1. OPEN ACCESS CONFERENCE,ACCRA KALKIDAN ALEMAYEHU ZELEKE HAWASSA UNIVERSITY,ETHIOPIA NOV 2009 Achieving Open Access of Information for Ethiopian Universities: A case of Hawassa University.

2. Outline 2 Goal What Exists Campus Networks EthERNet What Remains Conclusion

3. Goal 3 Géant / Global REN General Internet London Hub (UbuntuNet Router)

4. What Exists 4 Campus Networks EthERNet

5. Campus Networks Hawassa University Network

6. Background 6 Established on 25th of April 2000 Four Colleges Awassa College of Agriculture Main Campus Medical College Wondo Genet College of Forestry HUNET connecting 3 campuses

7. Physical Infrastructure 7

8. Network Services 8 Network file sharing Web service DNS service DHCP services Antivirus service Mail service(New)

9. Network Management 9 Cisco Pix Firewall Bandwidth Management MRTG Squid Ntop Nagios Proposed Traffic shaping Quota system

10. Impacts of HUNET 10 To establish and facilitate communication with native and international researchers Sharing of resources and research findings (ex: IPMS portal ) Accesses to teaching learning materials KMS Local e-library system Human resource capacity building

11. EthERNet 11 Ethiopian Educational Research Network Connects 9 public Universities 12 Universities are expected MPLS-VPN under ETC infrustructure Services Video Conferencing –finished E-libray-under construciton

12. EthERNet (contd..) 12 Stakeholders Ethiopian Ministry of Education Ethiopian Information and Communication Technology Development Agency (EICTDA) Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation Aim : to connect Ethiopian Universities and Research Institutes to each other and to International Universities and Institutions for collaboration in academics and research. Untapped potential Connection to the UbuntuNet Alliance

13. What Remains 13 ASN IP- Address space Challenges Policy Finance Human Resource

14. Conclusion 14 Open access information contributes to Education and Research Connection to the global RENs will harness this Readiness in Local Universities Connecting EthERNet to UbuntuNet Alliance

15. Thank You !