Management of the Continental Advanced Networks GEANT and AFRICACONNECT Joint as Two Autonomous Systems by BGP-4 Under IPv6: Using Limited Resources.

Abstract

GEANT and AFRICACONNECT are the advanced networks for Europe and Africa respectively, offering advanced Internet backbone infrastructure to 72 countries, interconnecting the national research and education networks in, 43 countries in Europe and 29 countries in Africa. Europe and Africa are closely related, having three communication links among them that, are evolving in time, developing a better infrastructure with increasing bandwidth and backbone equipment capabilities. In this work, management emulation was developed for a network resulting from joining of the GEANT and AFRICACONNECT backbones topologies for 2020 under IPv6 communications protocols. The results show the capabilities of the GNS3 emulator when running these kinds of topologies in a limited computer resources environment and are useful for analysis by ISP companies.