1. FEAST The TERENA Compendium of NRENs & Data Collection from African NRENs & NRENs in Construction Ubuntunet Connect 2008 Lilongwe, Malawi Tuesday 11 November John DYER TERENA John.Dyer@terena.org

2. Why? ›To collect baseline information ›Understand what is in place, what is not, advantages, problems to be solved ›Make a road map of what needs to be done ›To Benchmark Progress on an Annual basis ›Why TERENA ?

3. What is TERENA? ›TRANS-EUROPEAN RESEARCH & EDUCATION NETWORKING ASSOCIATION ›Collaborative Organisation ›Driven by membership ›Task Forces ›Projects ›GN2 – Compendium › Developing NRENs ›Workshops ›International Conference ›TERENA does not operate a network ›GÉANT2 - DANTE

4. GÉANT2 operated by DANTE on behalf of Europe’s NRENs

5. The TERENA Compendium ›Annual Survey 2001-2008 (eight years so far....) ›Contribution from European Commission FP6 ›Comprehensive Benchmarking of NRENs ›Expanding and Collaborating with other regions ›http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/

6. 2008 Compendium Coverage

7. Compendium Scope ›BASIC Information ›administrative, ownership, governance ›USERS and CLIENTS ›Institutions and users connected ›NETWORK CONNECTIVITY ›Network size, speeds, technologies, pops etc ›TRAFFIC ›Utilization, external, IPv6, QoS ›SERVICES ›AAI, Storage hosting, Grids, PERT, support, PR ›FUNDING and STAFFING ›Sources, budgets, allocation

8. Core Network Size 2004 v 2008 ›Scale is LOG ›Increase by about an order of magnitude on average

9. NREN Budgets 2004 v 2008 ›With a few exceptions, budgets are stable ›Major upgrades cause peaks ›But bandwidth increased by an order of magnitude in the same period

10. NREN Traffic Growth

11. Growth of Cross-border Dark Fibre 2007 - 2008

12. Percentage of Schools Served ›Varies enormously ›Prevented by law in some countries ›Encouraged and funded by government in others

13. Compendium demonstrates ›Digital Divide ›Highly dependent on market competition ›Funding Models ›Central funding, user funding, hybrid ›NREN approaches to Quality of Service ›Traffic Engineering v Over provisioning ›Growth of Cross Border Fibre Trend ›Procurement & Management from centre v local ›How NRENs keep pace with demand ›Low utilization rates and headroom ›etcetera, etcetera....

14. African Participation in TERENA Compendium ›2008 - Uganda (RENU)Uganda ›2007 - Mozambique (MoRENet)Mozambique ›2006 - Uganda (RENU)Uganda ›ALL AFRICAN NATIONS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE in the TERENA COMPENDIUM ›Next Edition Questionnaire will be launched April 2009 ONLINE data collection ›Contact: John DYER of TERENA: dyer@terena.org

15. The FEAST survey ›Based upon the TERENA Compendium Questionnaire (2001-2008) ›European Commission supported GÉANT2 NA4 Activity - assistance to the development of research and education networking in less-advanced regions (2004-2009) ›Work undertaken for the TERENA Regulatory Workshop (2008)

16. Questionnaire Structure FOR ALL EXISTING NRENS or NRENs in-construction ›1: NREN Basic information and legal form ›2: Existing or Proposed Customer Base and "Market Share" ›3: Network Capacity ›4: Network Traffic ›5: Staffing ›6. Funding ›7: Current/Planned, Technologies, Services, Research ›8: Regulation & Local Telecommunications / Internet Market ›9: Additional Information

17. The FEAST Questionnaire ›There are many questions (SORRY!) ›We will help you if things seem unclear ›Email: feast-survey-2008@terena.org ›Please answer all you can

18. Section 1 Basic Information

19. Section 2

20. Section 4 Network Traffic

21. Section 6 Funding/ Proposed Funding DNS

22. Section 8 Telecoms Regulation Local Telecoms Market

23. Summary ›Please try to answer as many FEAST survey questions as possible. ›Send in even if not complete ›Also relevant documents ›Topology Maps, Current / Planned ›Descriptions of NREN, Client, Services, Governance ›We are here to assist, please ask for help ›feast-survey-2008@terena.orgfeast-survey-2008@terena.org ›Telephone ›THANK YOU