Month: March 2020
WACS breakage: 28 March 2020
During the early hours of Saturday 28 March 2020, the West Africa Cable System (WACS) submarine fibre optic cable that connects South African research to Europe suffered a sub-sea break. Fortunately our network has sufficient redundant capacity that this break should not affect the majority of universities and research councils
New NREN capacity connects three continents
Florida International University (FIU), Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP), Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa / South African National Research Network (TENET/SANReN), and Angola Cables have completed a project connecting North America, South America, and Africa for research and education purposes.
Dedicated Cyberinfrastructure Resources for COVID19 Research
The National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System (NICIS) is availing resources to research or data analysis that is dedicated to efforts of combating COVID-19.
TENET’s Service Support Continuity – COVID19 Lockdown
Please continue to log all incidents and service requests as normal to support@tenet.ac.za or by calling +27 21 763 7147 which will be routed to our employees working from home.
Cyber Security Challenge 2020 Kick-Off
The SANReN Cyber Security Challenge 2020 has officially kicked-off!