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 !