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OPEN ACCESS CONFERENCE ,ACCRA
KALKIDAN ALEMAYEHU ZELEKEHAWASSA UNIVERSITY,ETHIOPIA
NOV 2009
Achieving Open Access of Information for Ethiopian
Universities: A case of Hawassa University.
Outline 2
Goal What Exists
Campus Networks EthERNet
What Remains Conclusion
Goal 3
Géant / Global REN
Géant / Global RENGeneral
Internet
London Hub(UbuntuNet Router)
What Exists 4
Campus Networks EthERNet
Campus Networks Hawassa
University Network
Background 6
Established on 25th of April 2000 Four Colleges
Awassa College of Agriculture Main Campus Medical College Wondo Genet College of Forestry
HUNET connecting 3 campuses
Physical Infrastructure 7
Network Services 8
Network file sharing Web serviceDNS serviceDHCP servicesAntivirus serviceMail service(New)
Network Management 9
Cisco Pix Firewall Bandwidth Management
MRTG Squid Ntop Nagios
Proposed Traffic shaping Quota system
Impacts of HUNET10
To establish and facilitate communication with native and international researchers
Sharing of resources and research findings (ex: IPMS portal )
Accesses to teaching learning materials KMS Local e-library system
Human resource capacity building
EthERNet 11
Ethiopian Educational Research NetworkConnects 9 public Universities 12 Universities are expected MPLS-VPN under ETC infrustructure Services
Video Conferencing –finished E-libray-under construciton
EthERNet (contd..)12
Stakeholders Ethiopian Ministry of Education Ethiopian Information and Communication Technology
Development Agency (EICTDA) Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation
Aim : to connect Ethiopian Universities and Research Institutes to each other and to International Universities and Institutions for collaboration in academics and research.
Untapped potential Connection to the UbuntuNet Alliance
What Remains 13
ASN IP- Address spaceChallenges
Policy Finance Human Resource
Conclusion14
Open access information contributes to Education and Research
Connection to the global RENs will harness this
Readiness in Local Universities Connecting EthERNet to UbuntuNet Alliance
Thank You !