Mr. Stephen John Lukindo TERNET Technical Committee Associate Director Information Resource Management January, 2012

1. Tanzania Education and
Research Network
(TERNET)
Mr. Stephen John Lukindo
TERNET Technical Committee
Associate Director Information Resource Management
January, 2012

2. Agenda
•
Introduc.on
• Poten.al
members
of
TERNET
• TERNET
Milestones
• Status
of
NICTBB
• Current
Status
of
TERNET
• Use
and
Benefits
• Challenges
• Collabora.ons
with
USA
ins.tu.ons

4. Popula.on:
43
million
Demographics
• gender
– Women:
51%
–
Men
49%
• age
group
-­‐ Under
30
-­‐ Over
30
Official
Languages
• Kiswahili
and
English
GDP
growth:
6.5%
(2010)
,
6.7%
(2011
est.)
–
Source:
IndexMundi
represen.ng
CIA
fact
book
Economic Occupation:
• 70% of the pop work in agriculture and live in rural areas
• Exports (gold, diamond, coffee, tea, cotton, sisal, wood, paper, cashew
nuts)
• Imports (consumer goods like foodstuffs, machinery and transportation
equipments, industrial raw materials, and crude oil)

5. POTENTIAL
MEMBERS
Level
Primary
Secondary
Teachers
Public
/Private
Technical/
Training
Universi.es
Voca.onal
College
Educa.on
No.
of
15,816
4,102
77
33
230
Ins.tu.on
Source: TCU & NACTE Website

6. TERNET
Milestones
• 2000
-­‐
the
need
for
a
NREN
was
realised
• January,
2002,
16
Higher
EducaDon
InsDtuDons
(HEIs)
signed
a
MoU
to
establish
NREN
TERNET.
• March,
2007
–
TERNET,
was
formally
consDtuted
– Interim
Leadership
– 21
InDtuDons
signed
MOU
– ConsDtuDon
was
then
draSed
• 11th
April,
2008
–
TERNET
registered
as
a
Trust
• 18th
April,
2008
-­‐
TERNET
become
member
of
UBUNTUNET
ALLIANCE
6

7. TERNET
Milestones
cont’d
• The
STM-­‐1
submarine
fibre
circuit
live
since
March
2011
– connecDng
COSTECH
NOC
with
Ubuntunet
in
London
– nominal
bandwidth
155
Mbps.
• The
IP
address
allocaDon
requested
from
AfriNIC
-­‐
assigned
in
February,
2010,
IP
block
number
41.93.0.0
/
17
or
Autonomous
System
Number
37182
• 47
TERNET
members
of
which
20
are
acDve
members

8. Status
of
NaDonal
ICT
Backbone
(NICTBB)

9. TERNET
ConnecDvity
Today
BGP PEERING over
Cisco 7609 TERNET
STM-1(155Mbps) link
core router
Gigabit
Gigabit Ethernet via TERNET switch
Cisco 3800 router Ethernet via UTP link
7609 UBUNTUNET CORE
UTP link provisioned
ROUTER LONDON Tanzania provisioned for 10Mbps
Commission for for 40Mbps
Science and
Leased
Technology Wireless link
(COSTECH) provisioned
for 10Mbps
Leased fibre
link
provisioned Leased
for 10Mbps Wireless link
provisioned Cisco router The
Leased fibre for 10Mbps Ministry of
link Education and
provisioned
for 10Mbps Vocational
Training
Sonicwall
Cisco 2800 router
Cisco 2800 router College of
The Open router The
Hubert Kairuki Business
University of Education
Tanzania Memorial
University

10. Current
Status
-­‐
Connected
InsDtuDons
• Nine
insDtuDons
connected
-­‐
• Tanzania
Commission
for
Science
and
Technology
(COSTECH)
• College
of
Business
Educa.on
• Open
University
of
Tanzania.
• Hubert
Kairuki
Memorial
University
• Ministry
of
Educa.on
and
Voca.onal
Training
• Ardhi
University
• Dar
es
salaam
Ins.tute
of
Technology
• Ins.tute
of
Social
Work
• Na.onal
Accredita.on
for
Technical
Educa.on
(NACTE)

11. Current
Use
and
Benefits
• Internet
Service
current
free
of
charge-­‐
contribuDon
mechanism
underway
• Sharing
of
educaDon
and
research
resources
• UDlizaDon
of
super
computer
at
DIT
Professorial
Inaugural
Lecture
Series
No.1

12. Challenges
• Infrastructure
– High
installaDon
and
recurring
costs
for
middle
and
last
mile
loop
– Ownership,
operaDons
and
maintenance
• Capacity
building
of
IT
staff
at
insDtuDons
–
requires
more
training
• The
NOC
-­‐
requires
updated
equipment
– servers
DNS,
Mail,
HTTP,
network
monitoring,
and
Bandwidth
manager
• Serious
issue
with
power
and
power
backup.
– The
ba`ery
inverter
was
providing
4
hours
backup
Dme.

13. Future
development
plans
for
the
physical
network
• Immediate
plans
–
– connect
insDtuDons
to
the
NOC
at
COSTECH
– a
mix
of
fibre
and
wireless
local
loops
– Up
to
1Gbps
(vs
2
to
5
Mbps
wireless)
• Long-­‐term
plan
–
– UDlize
na.onal
ICT
backbone
to
connect
ins.tu.ons
–
local
and
other
regions
• Points
of
Presence
(PoPs)
-­‐
– Dodoma,
Mwanza,
and
Arusha
– linked
back
to
the
NOC
at
COSTECH
via
the
NICTBB.

14. CollaboraDons
(US
universiDes,
Internet2,
etc)
• Management
of
NREN
–
O&M
• Capacity
Building
• Equipments
provision-­‐server
rooms
• ICT
Infrastructure
provision-­‐
wireless
Professorial
Inaugural
Lecture
Series
No.1

15. Asante
kwa
kusikiliza
Professorial
Inaugural
Lecture
Series
No.1