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TENET: The Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa

The Network


The network operated by TENET includes a 10 Gbps circuit to London on the SEACOM cable system, redundant backhaul circuits from the SEACOM landing station in Mtunzini, the SANReN 10 Gbps backbone, the SANReN Johannesburg ring, the GEN3 MPLS network provided by Neotel, an IP Connect circuit into Telkom's ADSL network, and various optical fibre access circuits. TENET also operates transit and peering links in Cape Town, Johannesburg and London, including a connection to the European research and education network, GÉANT.

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SANReN National Backbone Network

The completion of the SANReN National Backbone network is a momentous achievement and brings about dramatic increase in bandwidth and internet access to the research and education community. [more]
DITCHE: DITCHE's goal is to nurture communities of practice in three key domains within South African public higher education: IT professionals, scholars and academics committed to using IT for educational and research purposes, and library and affiliated information professionals.

  The DITCHE Program

DITCHE is a donor-funded capacity development program that aims to assist South African public higher education institutions to improve their use of Information Technology. DITCHE's goal is to nurture communities of practice in three key domains within South African public universities. [more]

ISPA Membership


TENET is an honorary member of the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) and upholds ISPA's Code of Conduct.

TENET has nominated ISPA as its agent for the purpose of receiving take-down notifications in terms of Section 75 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act.


ISPA's address is:

Internet Service Providers' Association
P O Box 3423, Parklands 2121
Telephone: +27 11 314 7751
Email: complaints at ispa dot org dot za.

Acceptable Use Policy

 

TENET's Acceptable Use Policy is available for download here.

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SEACOM repair completed
 

SEACOM report that the cable repair activity has completed successfully. Normal international service to TENET institutions was restored at 06h30 on 23 July 2010 and service is currently stable.


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