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South America and South Africa establish their first direct connection

Members, Partners, RedCLARA, Stories, TENET / By / October 5, 2020

The night of September 17, 2020, will be remembered as the one in which Africa and South America connected for the first time, through a BGP peer established between TENET (Tertiary Education & Research Network of South Africa) and RedCLARA. The BGP peer uses the AmLight link through the SACS (South Atlantic Cable System) and WACS (West African Cable System) …

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UbuntuNet Alliance ropes in Service Portfolio Manager

Stories, Team / By / September 1, 2020

The UbuntuNet Alliance team continues to grow. On 1st August this year, the Alliance welcomed, as part of its staff, Nosiku Sikanyika, former Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN) Systems Administrator who has joined as Service Portfolio Manager. Sikanyika brings to the Alliance vast experience in research and education networking having worked at the Zambia …

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NREN engineers hail MANRS training workshop

Connectivity, Network, Stories / By / September 1, 2020

Network engineers that participated in the recent Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) online training workshop organized by UbuntuNet Alliance in partnership with Internet Society (ISOC) and AFRINIC have hailed the impact of the virtual workshop which they believe will help NRENs safeguard their networks against potential threats. At least 18 NREN engineers from …

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AfriGEO Community counts on AfricaConnect3 project for enhanced Internet connectivity

AfricaConnect, ASREN, Connectivity, GEANT, Partners, Projects, Stories, WACREN / By / September 1, 2020

The African Group on Earth Observation (AfriGEO) community, a member of the global Group on Earth Observation (GEO) says it expects the AfricaConnect3 project, a Pan-African project aimed at creating an internet network for research and education across Africa, to boost internet connectivity in the community’s sites in Africa. GEO is a unique global network …

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NREN Cloud set up webinars for network engineers kick-off

Capacity Building, Stories, Training / By / September 1, 2020

In a drive to help National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) own cloud service infrastructure, UbuntuNet Alliance has launched a series of webinars aimed at drilling NREN network and systems engineers on how their can set up and operate their own cloud systems. The webinar series kicked off in August 2020 with the first seminar …

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AfricaConnect3 to feature at Paris Peace Forum 2020

ASREN, GEANT, Partners, Stories, WACREN / By / September 1, 2020

After a competitive selection process with over 850 applications, the AfricaConnect3 project has been selected as one of the 100 projects to be showcased at the third edition of the Paris Peace Forum 2020 from the 11th to the 13th of November 2020. The Paris Peace Forum is a prestigious event that seeks to advance …

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KENET strikes 40 percent data bundle price reduction deal for member institutions

KENET, Members, Stories / By / July 29, 2020

As one way of sustaining teaching and learning through various online platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kenya Education Network (KENET) has collaborated with the country’s mobile service providers to provide data bundles at discounted prices to KENET institutions’ students and faculty members. Under the deal, Safaricom will be providing monthly 10GB data bundles at …

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Register for and attend the virtual TICAL 2020 conference, 31st August – 3rd September 2020

Partners, RedCLARA, Stories / By / September 1, 2020

RedCLARA, its members, and the Organizing Committee of TICAL 2020 program, have decided to carry out the tenth version of the Conference in a virtual way, bringing the program of the tenth edition of the Conference from a face-to-face format to a new fully digital version to help foster regional participation. Prospective participants from the …

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Register for the Virtual Workshop on Collaboration between AfriGEO & AfricaConnect3

ASREN, Partners, Stories, WACREN / By / September 1, 2020

UbuntuNet Alliance in collaboration with its sister African Regional Education Networks of West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) and the Arab States Research and Education Network ( ASREN) invite you to register for the African Group on Earth Observation (AfriGEO) and AfricaConnect3 Collaboration workshop which will be held on Wednesday, 19th August …

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UbuntuNet Alliance, Internet Society to train NREN engineers online

Capacity Building, Connectivity, Network, Stories, Training / By / July 8, 2020

UbuntuNet Alliance has, in partnership with the Internet Society (ISOC), organized a three-week Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) online training workshop for network engineers from the UbuntuNet Alliance membership region. The workshop, to be facilitated experts from ISOC, will be held through daily one-hour sessions starting from 13th – 31st July 2020. The …

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