The National Integrated Cyber Infrastructure System (NICIS) competitive research grant is now open. This grant aim is to promote research capacity development through a competitive research grant award system. Scope The rationale for this call is to make funds available…
City of Cape Town announces eduroam in public libraries
The City of Cape Town has signed as agreement with the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC) facilitating the provision of eduroam at public libraries in Cape Town. Great stuff! Read more about eduroam at https://eduroam.ac.za/
TENET RFP: Johannesburg Metro core upgrade to dark fibre – closed
The Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET) has published a Request for Proposal (RFP) to upgrade the Johannesburg Metro Core Points-of-Presence with Dark Fibre See RFP – Johannesburg Metro Fibre Upgrade for more details on the TENET…
South African team, champions at the BRICS Future Skills Challenge 2018 in the area of Cyber Security
The South African National Research Network (SANReN) supported merSETA in hosting the Cyber security area at the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) 2018 Future Skills Challenge and Expo. The competition was held in a similar format…
MeerKAT 64-dish telescope launched!
With never before seen images of the centre of the milky way. “The South African Science fraternity reached another milestone with the official launch of the MeerKAT 64-dish radio telescope on Friday (13/07) in Carnarvon.This image shows a wealth of…
SANReN presents “Moving more data, faster (yours!) – the science DMZ as enabler”
At the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA) National Research Data Workshop 2018, 45 delegates were educated in the latest practices for transferring large scientific/research datasets. These include: the science DMZ network design pattern, data transfer nodes (DTNs),…