1. eGYAfrica Workshop: better Internet connectivity for research and education in Africa Accra, 24-25 November 2010 Dr Daniel NYANGANYURA ICSU Regional Office for Africa d.nyanganyura@icsu-africa.org www.icsu-africa.org South African National Research Network

2. South African National Research Network (SANReN) The DST tasked the Meraka Institute with the planning and deployment of this network – results to anytime now Original plan called for inter-institution links of up to 500 Mbit/s and international bandwidth of 1Gbit/s but with most sites now expecting to connect at speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s International Internet connectivity will be provided over the SEACOM submarine fibre SANReN provide its clients with connectivity to the world's research networks as well as commodity Internet access In 2005, South African government thru DST provided ZAR 365 million (~USD 5 million) for a three-year project to develop SANReN & further research aims

3. South African National Research Network (SANReN) Meraka gone (2006) into partnership TENET - a provider of academic networking in South Africa and signed an MoU in which TENET Under their memorandum of understanding, Meraka would build SANReN and TENET would operate it As of September 2008, SANReN has connected three higher educational institutes in Gauteng: the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Johannesburg, and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research