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ZAMREN is proud to announce the rollout of eduroam at key locations across Lusaka, offering free and secure internet access to students, researchers and travelers. This globally recognized service allows users to access the internet using their institutional credentials, enhancing productivity and connectivity for those engaged in academic and research activities.
Key Locations for eduroam Access:
ZAMREN’s deployment of eduroam at these high-traffic locations makes academic resources more accessible and allows students, researchers and professionals to stay connected in key public spaces. We are yet to also deploy eduroam at shopping malls in all the ten provincial headquarters of Zambia. This initiative aligns with ZAMREN’s mission to provide reliable internet access to enable knowledge, both on and off campus.
The Government, through ZICTA (the ICT Regulatory body), has launched an initiative to promote low-cost, high-quality, reliable, and affordable ICT goods and services that are universally accessible and meet the needs of the Zambian community.
Under this initiative, ZICTA has supported ZAMREN in providing optic fiber last mile connectivity for UNZA, CBU, Mulungushi University, and others to the ZESCO optic fiber grid. Last mile connections for more institutions in the education and research sectors are being planned and implemented. Institutions connected to the ZAMREN network are already experiencing a five-fold reduction in the cost of dedicated bandwidth.
UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking is an association of NRENs in Africa. The UbuntuNet Alliance exists to provide regional and international connectivity and Internet services to its member NRENs in Eastern and Southern Africa (“the Region”), on a non-profit basis. The Alliance provides specialised interconnections with other research and education networks worldwide – interconnections that are available only to bona-fide NRENs – and also connectivity to the general “commodity” Internet worldwide. The Alliance is in the process of designing a high-speed backbone network that will inter-connect the NRENs and provide them all with connectivity to major research and education networking gateways and general Internet gateways operated by the Alliance. NRENs as local operators of the UbuntuNet backbone:- The UbuntuNet Alliance does not contemplate incorporating and seeking the required electronic communications licenses in each country of the region. Rather, in each country of the region, the Alliance intends to support the local NREN by contracting the NREN to provide and operate those portions of the UbuntuNet Backbone that lie within the country
The African Union Commission and European Commission announced a major project, known as AfricaConnect, which undertook the initial deployment of the UbuntuNet Alliance Network backbone. This can be regarded as the first Phase of the overall vision of Africa Connect, a dedicated research and education network interconnecting the entire continent and to the rest of the global research and education networking community. The project budget was Euro 14.2 million of which EC funded 80% and the 20% by recipient NRENs This is a result of a one-year study commissioned by the European Commission (FEAST) to explore the feasibility of deploying a regional backbone dedicated to NRENs in sub-Saharan Africa to each other and to GEANT ZAMREN is a full member of UbuntuNet Alliance and actively participated in the AfricaConnect Project. ZAMREN made its contribution of Euro 250,000 towards the AfricaConnect project. The AfricaConnect Project 1 has been completed. For more information visit AfricaConnect Project
