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GARNET: Ghana's research network documents its mandate, not its operations
Ghana's national research and education network can be named, dated and mapped to seven public universities. What it cannot yet be is checked: neither its own site nor the regional body that recognises it publishes governance, funding, contracted capacity or the address resources…
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South African Post Office: the rescue is ending, the statutory bill is not
On 12 June 2026 the Post Office's business rescue practitioners asked the Pretoria High Court to terminate the rescue, reporting a balance sheet returned to a positive R840 million and a loss cut from R514 million to R71 million. No order had been granted by 17 August 2026, the…
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UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps Core Network Constrained by Campus Endpoints
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report says core links were upgraded from around 2.5 Gbps to 10 Gbps, and new points of presence plus peering were added. Translating this regional upgrade into research capacity, however, depends on national research networks, campus systems, commercial…
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UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps core still depends on the campus edge
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report described core links upgraded from about 2.5 to 10 Gbps, along with new points of presence and peering. This regional gain only reaches researchers when national networks, campus systems, operators and recurrent funding can sustain it after each…
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The campus edge is UbuntuNet’s service floor
A 10 Gbps regional core cannot improve research sessions that terminate behind a constrained campus circuit, firewall, Wi-Fi network or power supply.
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Campus capacity needs a renewal clock
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbit/s core can outlive campus routers, optics, firewalls, batteries and support contracts. Capacity erodes when replacement dates remain implicit.
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Backbone capacity needs an adoption ledger
UbuntuNet’s move from roughly 2.5 to 10 Gbps is a regional input. Its value depends on which universities can actually use the added capacity and keep paying for it.
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Regional support needs an incident-authority map
UbuntuNet can observe and coordinate a regional path, but a campus, national network or carrier may hold the change right needed to restore it.
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UbuntuNet's 10 Gbps Core Still Relies on Campus Networks
UbuntuNet's 2023 report notes upgrades to 10 Gbps core links and added PoPs and peering. Whether these regional improvements reach researchers depends on national networks, campus facilities, commercial carriers, and the sustained operational funding that must continue after each…
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UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbit/s Core Still Depends on Campus Networks
UbuntuNet's 2023 report describes core links upgraded from about 2.5 to 10 Gbit/s, with new points of presence and peering. This regional progress only reaches researchers if national networks, campus systems, operators, and recurrent funding extend it beyond each AfricaConnect…
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UbuntuNet's 10 Gbps core still depends on the campus edge
UbuntuNet's 2023 report described expanded backbone links from around 2.5 to 10 Gbps, along with new points of presence and peering. That regional advance only reaches researchers when national networks, campus systems, operators, and recurring funding can sustain it beyond each…
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UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbit/s core still depends on campus networks
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report describes core links upgraded from around 2.5 to 10 Gbit/s, complemented by new Points of Presence and peering. This regional progress reaches researchers only if national networks, campus infrastructure, carriers and recurring funding carry it beyond each…
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UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps backbone still depends on university networks
The 2023 UbuntuNet report described upgrading core links from around 2.5 to 10 Gbps, with new points of presence and peering. Yet this regional improvement reaches researchers only if national networks, campus systems, carriers and recurring funding can carry it past each…
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UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps core still depends on the campus edge
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report described core links upgraded from about 2.5 Gbps to 10 Gbps, with new points of presence and peering. That regional gain reaches researchers only when national networks, campus systems, carriers and recurring finance can carry it beyond each AfricaConnect…
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ZARC 2025 DNS incident made .za registry resolution continuity an accountability test
In March 2025, a DNS disruption around .ZA commercial second-level domains showed why registry continuity is not a back-office detail. DNS is the internet lookup system that turns a domain name into reachable network directions. When that lookup layer degrades, users can see a…
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Mauritania's 2018 ACE Cable Cut Made International Path Diversity an Accountability Test
Mauritania’s March-April 2018 connectivity crisis showed that international resilience depends on usable, independent, tested paths and verifiable restoration—not on the mere existence of routes labelled as backups.
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Nova Registry's Domain Renewal Depends on Scarcity vs Substitutes
Nova Registry Ltd.'s.link account must be judged through the renewal decision of a domain holder who can always choose a larger open TLD, a country-code name, a social handle, a link-in-bio page, a defensive registration, or no additional namespace; the question is whether a rare…
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AfriNIC's membership fee carries registry continuity risk
The annual fee paid to African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd is best understood as a continuity premium: a network operator is paying to keep number-resource administration, public registry records, routing-security services and member accountability available while…
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ZA Central Registry and the African domain-year bargain priced through trust, not glamour
For a South African registrar, government supplier or pan-African SME, the choice between a `.za` or `.africa` identity and a cheaper, easier-to-explain `.com` is not really a branding question; it is a one-year renewal bet on whether local and continental trust can do more work…
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RICTA and the Hidden Cost of a Rwandan Domain-Year
A Rwandan business choosing a web identity can buy a familiar global domain, point customers to social media, or register a local .RW name and ask the national namespace to carry its credibility. Rwanda Internet Community and Technology Alliance (RICTA) Ltd sits behind that last…