African universities come together to set up NRENs and buy international bandwidth

Africa & Middle East Telecom,  November, 2005  by Anonymous

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Africa's universities took a step nearer joining their developed-world colleagues when a group decided that they would bid for international fiber capacity in the EASSy fiber project and that they would seek to encourage the setting up of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). This is the first time users have come together at this level in a bid to lower the price of connectivity.

The vision of delivering very high speed - Gigabits-persecond connectivity instead of the current kilobits-per-second between African universities and research institutions - is driving the Alliance ...

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