Burundi Backbone System
| BBS | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | , Burundi |
  BBSl headquarters in Bujumbura BBSl headquarters in Bujumbura (Burundi) | |
| Website | www |
Burundi Backbone System, or BBS, is a wholesale broadband telecommunications company in Burundi.
Services
[edit]BBS specialized in design, construction and operation of very high speed networks. It supports the government network, and networks connecting unversities, banks, and service providers.[1] BBS provides:
- A guaranteed, secure, high=speed transmission service between its points of presence throughout Burundi, with support for STM-64 international traffic to Tanzania and Rwanda.[2]
- A multi-destination IP transit service with built-in redundancy and fault tolerance for telecommunications carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Application Service Providers (ASPs), content players and others.[3]
- Web hosting services.[4]
History
[edit]After Burundi became a member of the East African Community in 2007, the landline incumbent Onatel Burundi formed a consortium with other Burundian telecommunications companies including Africell, U-COM Burundi, CBINET and Econet Wireless to build the Burundi Backbone System (BBS) fiber optic network.[5] The Public Private Partnership arrangement creating Burundi Backbone Service as a consortium was signed in May 2010. A Fiber Optic Network covdering 1,245 kilometres (774 mi) was built.[6] The network was laiunched in 2013.[7]
In October 2014 the government of Burundi, Onatel and Huawei officially launched the Bujumbura Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) projects. The project was funded by a grant from China and would be installed by Huawei Technologies.[8] The US$9 million Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) was not profitable due to competition from the BBS company.[9]
In January 2017 the authorities revoked BBS's status as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) and nationalized it without consultation or compensation. The reason given was that the shareholders were not respecting their infrastructure contractual terms.[10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ BBS - Burundi Backbone System developmentaid.
- ^ Transmission de Données BBS.
- ^ IP Transit Internet BBS.
- ^ Hébergement des données et serveurs BBS.
- ^ Gahama 2020.
- ^ Ranga Rajan Krishnamani 2016, p. 8.
- ^ Burundi Backbone Systems : A National Network.
- ^ Burundi: Huawei, Onatel Commission.
- ^ Manirakiza 2021.
- ^ Ranga Rajan Krishnamani 2016, p. 15.
Sources
[edit]- "BBS - Burundi Backbone System", developmentaid.org, retrieved 2024-09-20
- "Burundi Backbone Systems : A National Network", Africa Outlook, 26 December 2017, retrieved 2024-09-20
- "Burundi: Huawei, Onatel Commission Bujumbura's Metropolitan Area Network in Burundi", CIO Africa, Nairobi, 30 October 2014, retrieved 2024-09-20
- Gahama, Pacifique (4 December 2020), "Qui a tué l'Onatel ?", Iwacu (in French), retrieved 2024-09-20
- Hébergement des données et serveurs, BBS
- IP Transit Internet (in French), BBS, retrieved 2024-09-20
- Manirakiza, Fabrice (14 September 2021), "ONATEL : une faillite à plusieurs facettes", Iwacu (in French), retrieved 2024-09-20
- Ranga Rajan Krishnamani (2016), Report Number : ICRR0021023 (PDF), Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)
- Transmission de Données (in French), BBS, retrieved 2024-09-20