TENET

Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa
Abbreviation	TENET
Pronunciation	/tɛnɛt/
Predecessor	UNINET Project
Formation	August 2000; 25 years ago (2000-08)
Registration no.	2000/020780/08
Legal status	non profit company
Purpose	National Research and Education Network
Headquarters	Mowbray, Cape Town
Region served	South Africa
Affiliations	UbuntuNet Alliance,ISPA,USAf, HEITSA, WAPA
Website	www.tenet.ac.za

TENET operatesSouth Africa'snational research and education network,SANReN, in collaboration with the SANReN team of theNICIS.

TENET is a membership-based,non profit company incorporated inSouth Africa. Its members are thepublic universities and statutory research councils it serves.^[1] Its board of directors is appointed by the members at an annual general meeting.

TENET acts as a comprehensiveInternet service provider as well as a research and education network: it operates theSouth African National Research Network (SANReN), a large-scale government infrastructure project that provides network connectivity between higher educational and research organisations. In addition, it maintains privatepeering links with a number of large ISPs in South Africa and peers at both theJINX (inJohannesburg) andCINX (inCape Town)Internet exchange points. International connectivity at 10 Gbit/s is provided frompoints of presence in London and Amsterdam via theSEACOM cable. A second 20 Gbit/s route on theWACS cable up the West Coast provides redundant access and was obtained as anIRU bySouth Africa's Department of Science and Technology as part of the broader aims of SANReN and in support of bandwidth-hungry applications such as theSquare Kilometer Array andMeerKAT radio telescope.

TENET operates a growing bundle of services in support of research & education in South Africa. These include:

• Video conferencing
• theeduroam national roaming operator for South Africa
• South African Identity Federation (SAFIRE), which is a member of the globaleduGAIN inter-federation.
• a sector CSIRT (in conjunction withSANReN)

As a founder member of theUbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking, an African confederation of research and education networks,^[2] TENET is committed to improving regional connections.

TENET was connected toGÉANT in October 2004,^[3] a relationship that was subsequently subsumed by the UbuntuNet Alliance.

• Official homepage
• eduroam South Africa
• South African Identity Federation

• Internet in South Africa
• National research and education networks
• Science and technology in South Africa

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