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10 Gbps SANReN network live

SANReN’s national backbone network completed ahead of schedule, providing educational institutions with 10 Gbps of national and international bandwidth

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) and CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) have announced that work on the national backbone network of the South African National Research Network (SANReN) has been completed ahead of schedule.  SANReN forms a crucial part of the national cyberinfrastructure initiative funded by the DST.

The CSIR's Meraka Institute is responsible for the implementation of the DST's cyberinfrastructure initiative which, in addition to SANReN, comprises the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) and the proposed Very Large Datasets data-storage initiative.

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