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Bridging Europe, Africa and the Americas (BEAA) – New Collaboration for shared transoceanic R&E networking resilience

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Bridging Europe, Africa and the Americas (BEAA) – New Collaboration for shared transoceanic R&E networking resilience

vassi2022-04-06T16:06:18+00:00

Seven leading regional and national Research and Education networks and organisations across multiple continents announced the establishment of the “Bridging Europe, Africa and the Americas” (BEAA) Collaboration, aiming to increase the resilience of their networks across a set of transoceanic links that interconnect their communities in Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe and Latin America.

The BEAA Collaboration was formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed between Amlight/the Florida International University Board of Trustees, GÉANT, RedCLARA, RNP, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), TENET and the UbuntuNet Alliance. All partners agreed to collaborate for an initial period of three years, by providing mutual back-up through high-capacity links and resources.

Back-up connectivity enabled by the agreement will ensure that advanced Research and Education collaborations among the regions will continue even in case of service outages. Participating organisations will use the capacity provided by the agreed back-up arrangements to carry high volumes of data required for data-intensive research, including – notably – Earth Observation (EO) data of the European Union’s Copernicus programme.

Opening a new chapter in the R&E collaboration between Europe, Africa and the Americas, the BEAA agreement showcases an increasingly resilient, flexible and interconnected global R&E networking ecosystem, apt to support scientists worldwide in tackling the big scientific challenges of our times.

“The collaborative efforts by the Research and Education (R&E) Networks to increase connectivity and capacity in the South Atlantic has been transformational. The BEAA collaboration will leverage this outcome to increase network resilience in support of the global R&E communities.”, said Julio Ibarra, Principal Investigator, AmLight.

“GÉANT is pleased to reinforce the longstanding collaboration between the Research and Education Networks in Europe, Africa and the Americas by joining the BEAA collaboration. This joint effort will contribute to strengthen the global fabric of research and education networking, ensuring mutual back-up connectivity and increasing resilience for the ultimate benefit of researchers, educators and learners across our regions.”, said Erik Huizer, CEO, GÉANT.

“The agreement established to strengthen the connection between Europe, Africa and the Americas is a clear example of the value of cooperation between the world’s research and education networks. Seven organizations participate in the agreement and, through it, they will establish routes of support for the already existing connectivity between them. These efforts strengthen the network ecosystem that supports education, research and innovation at a global level and RedCLARA feels very proud and grateful to its partners in this agreement for the enormous improvement in connectivity achieved”, said Luis Eliécer Cadenas, Executive Director, RedCLARA.

“This BEAA MoU is very important for all of us NRENs who have international operations in the South Atlantic, as it establishes a collaboration of mutual back-up across of our international high-capacity links and resources operated by us. This will result in greater resilience of our individual infrastructures and, thus, it will contribute to strengthen our advanced research and education collaboration, interconnecting our respective links at Global R&E Network Exchange Points”, said Eduardo Grizendi, Engineering and Operations director, RNP.

“TENET is proud to contribute to this collaborative endeavour, which illuminates the power of NRENs working in concert, and which will further the interests of global research and education generally and of the communities that TENET serves.”, said Duncan Greaves, CEO, TENET.

“We, at UbuntuNet Alliance, are delighted to be part of this global initiative aimed at increasing network resilience between Africa, Europe and the Americas over the Atlantic. This collaboration means that researchers in these regions are much closer to each other and will have reliable network services as they work together in pursuit of the discovery of knowledge.” – said Prof Madara Ogot, CEO, UbuntuNet Alliance.

About the partners

CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) is a statutory body established and operating in terms of the Scientific Research Council Act, No 46 of 1988 as amended and hosts the South African National Research Network (SANReN) as a business unit inside the National Integrated Cyber Infrastructure System (NICIS) Centre. SANReN is responsible for the design, acquisition and roll-out of national and international capacity, as well as the development and incubation of advanced services. SANReN is a key component of the South African government’s Cyber Infrastructure initiatives, alongside the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) and the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA).

The Florida International University Board of Trustees/Amlight is an international research and education network that supports research and education collaborations between communities of knowledge creation in the U.S., and the nations of South America and Africa. Amlight provides 600Gbps of upstream capacity between the U.S. and South America, and 100Gbps to Africa. Amlight has points of presence in Miami and Boca Raton, Florida; Fortaleza and Sao Paulo, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; Santiago, Chile; Panama City, Panama; and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

GÉANT is Europe’s leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for the benefit of research and education, contributing to Europe’s economic growth and competitiveness. The organisation develops, delivers and promotes advanced network and associated e-infrastructure services, and supports innovation and knowledge-sharing amongst its members, partners and the wider research and education networking community. For more information, visit geant.org or follow @GEANTnews on Twitter.

RedCLARA is the Latin American Research and Education Network, regional leader and promotor of collaboration and development in education, science and innovation, by means of its e­infrastructure and services tailored for its community needs. RedCLARA provides regional interconnections and connections to the world through its international links and promotes the development of tools, services and research projects to empower regional scientific and educational development and the collaboration within Latin American R&E institutions and of Latin America and the rest of the world with an important focus on less developed regions.

RNP (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa) is the Brazilian National Education and Research Network (NREN). It was created in 1989, the network started to operate in 1992. Currently it operates a national wide backbone, own metropolitan networks in capitals and inland cities, international links, with 27 points of presence, one on each of the 26 Brazilian states and on the Federal District, and connects over 4 million users, at 1.700 campuses of 800 institutions, supporting a portfolio of services addressed to the education and research communities.

TENET is a non-profit company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of South Africa and delivers internetworking and related services to the higher education and research sector of South Africa. It is controlled by the public universities and statutory research councils of South Africa and operates in collaboration with them and for their benefit.

The UbuntuNet Alliance is the regional research and education networking organisation for Eastern and Southern Africa. It is registered as a Trust in Malawi, operates as an association of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and runs the UbuntuNet network which interconnects NRENs across the region.

Education Networks (NRENs) and runs the UbuntuNet network which interconnects NRENs across the region.

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