[afrinic-discuss] Announcing "UNGANA IXBase"

[Eric Osiakwan]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce AfrISPA's first software application. This  
application is an outcome from the African IXP Research Project which  
has been funded by IDRC to come up with systems and methodology to  
collect, store and analyse African Internet Exchange statistics. The  
software is called UNGANA IXBase.
=EF=BF=BCUNGANA is a Swahili word that means "connect" and "join together" =
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-ungana { English: fit together }
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-ungana { English: join together } [derived: unga V]
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-ungana { English: mix together }
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-ungana { English: unite } [derived: unga V]
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In essence the software helps IXPs have a common point at which to  
store traffic statistics with a central system to enable analysis and  
reporting on collected data. This tool will among other things help  
ISPs determine among others:
The rate of growth in the routing table.
The rate of growth in IP address space.
The rate of growth in Internet traffic.
The degree of interconnectedness of networks.
The relative volume of traffic flowing locally and internationally.

The software will be launched at the First African Internet Exchange  
Research Workshop which takes place in Nairobi on the 2nd & 3rd of  
February 2006 at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies. This workshop  
will be attended by representatives from 9 African countries that  
have Internet Exchange Points and will provide them with the software  
and equipment to set up data collection nodes at each of their IXPs.

UNGANA IXBase is an open-source software and has it's ongoing  
development coordinated via SourceForge.net. Each participating  
exchange point is encouraged to invite the local network engineers  
and developers to join in and contribute towards making UNGANA serve  
Africa and the world better.

Please join with us not only to celebrate this achievement but to help us build it better. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Brian Longwe and Mike Kwatampora of Inhand LTD who took leadership in the core development. 

Attached is a Press Release which announces the first African IX Research Workshop.

For AfrISPA and Africa



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Eric M.K Osiakwan
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