Speaker
Mr
Leon Staphorst
(Director: SANReN)
Description
The South African National Research and Education Network (SA NEN) is a collaborative effort by the Tertiary Education and Research Network of Of South Africa (TENET) and the South African National Research Network (SANReN) than has panned more than a decade. While the SA NREN initially ha the primary goal to provide the South African higher education and research communities with unconstrained bandwidth at a fraction of the costs of the commercial market, it has now evolved to also provide a wide variety of advanced services and participates in various international initiatives. As such, it has evolved from a mere connectivity provider to a an extremely advanced NREN that is now regarded as one of the world's leading Research and Education (R&E) networks, as is evident from it's membership in the Global R&E Chief Executive Office (CEO) Forum. This presentation will consider the progress that the SA NREN has made in recent times in providing connectivity and other advanced services to its beneficiairies, and measure this against the NREN maturity model developed by TENET to gauge the successful development of NRENs throughout Africa.
HPC content
The SA NREN provides connectivity from all higher education and science institutions to the CHPC. It is also responsible for the transportation of all SKA/MeerKAT and CERN related science traffic into and out of South Africa.
Primary author
Mr
Leon Staphorst
(Director: SANReN)
