Designing and Implementing a National Research and Education Network

ISBN-13: 9783838382920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 168 str.

Sybrand Brink

Opis

This work examines the factors that need to be considered when designing a national research and education network (NREN). It discusses the needs of the research and education community and what makes a NREN unique from other networks. It considers the different options available regarding transmission mediums, - technologies and higher level network protocols, and suggests principles that should be followed to obtain an optimum design. These design principles are then applied to the specific case of designing a 100 Gbps+ NREN for South Africa. The network is currently still under construction with funding from the national government, and preliminary findings regarding the implementation of the network are given.

O autorze

Sybrand Brink has been active in the field of planning optical fibre and transmission networks since 1997. He was awarded a MSc. Eng (Cum Laude) by the university of Stellenbosch in 2009. He is currently employed by a consultancy firm in Cape Town, where he is the network architect of the City of Cape Town's broadband optic fibre network.