partnership for higher education in africa bandwidth consortium update
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Partnership for Higher Education in Africa
Bandwidth consortium update
Rationale: Global Connectivity
Bandwidth Consortium Members
• GHANA- Association of African
Universities
- University of Education, Winneba
- University of Ghana
• MOZAMBIQUE- Eduardo Mondlane
University
• UGANDA- Makerere University
• NIGERIA- Ahmadu Bello University
- Bayero University
- Obafemi Awolowo University
- University of Ibadan
- University of Jos
- University Port Harcourt
• TANZANIA- University of Dar es Salaam
• KENYA- KENET
Partnership Bandwidth Grants
• African Virtual University ($5 million over three years) to buy bandwidth
• Tertiary Education Network of South Africa ($640,000 over three years) to improve bandwidth management
Consortium Operation
African Virtual University
Universities Intelsat
Partnership Foundations
$1.3 million $2.6 million
$1.6
milli
on
93,000 kilobits per second of
bandwidth
1st year bandwidth allocations
InstitutionBandwidth Purchase (Kbps)
Bandwidth Subsidy from Partnership (Kbps)
TOTALBandwidth for site (Kbps)
AAU 512 500 1012
KENET 5000 2000 7000
UEW (Winneba) 5888 2000 7888
Eduardo Mondlane 8500 4000 12500
Dar - es Salaam 5000 4000 9000
Ahmadu Bello 2560 4000 6560
Port Harcourt 2560 2500 5060
Ghana 5120 4000 9120
Bayero 2048 2500 4548
Obafemi Awolowo 2560 4000 6560
Jos 2560 4000 6560
Ibadan 3840 4000 7840
Makerere 5000 5000 10000
TOTAL 51148 42500 93648
Improved Bandwidth Supply
Before bandwidth consortium
After bandwidth consortium
Total bandwidth of consortium universities
36,000 kbps (today)(only 12,000 kbps as of Jan 2004)
93,000 kbps
Avg. cost per kbps of bandwidth
$7.3 $2.33
Bandwidth demand met
33% 86%
Partnership for Higher Education