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In the past the area has had poor Internet connectivity with heavy use of expensive (in terms of $/Mbps) geostationary satellite connections to the outside world. (see above) In addition most of the traffic between countries made use of expensive international links via Europe and the U.S. rather than more direct connections. There are active movements to create National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in the area, see for example "Sub-Saharan Africa: An update" by Boubaker Barry. This, together with direct connections between countries will enable more direct peering. These NRENs in turn are peering with the GEANT network in Europe through the Ubuntunet Alliance. The map on the left below shows the state of African NRENs in 2008 and to the right of it , the map in the middle shows the Founding Ubuntunet Alliance members and those who have joined since the founding, the figure on the right shows the prediction (in October 2008) for the state of Ubuntunet connections at the end of 2009..
NRENs in Africa | Ubuntunet Alliance | Ubuntunet End 2009, from Duncan Martin |
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It can be seen that NRENs are being created.
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