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Burundi Backbone System
BBS
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded2007; 17 years ago (2007)
Headquarters
Bujumbura
,
Burundi
BBSl headquarters in Bujumbura is located in Burundi
BBSl headquarters in Bujumbura
BBSl headquarters in Bujumbura
BBSl headquarters in Bujumbura (Burundi)
Websitewww.bbs.bi/fr//

Burundi Backbone System, or BBS, is a wholesale broadband telecommunications company in Burundi.

Services

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

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

References

  1. ^ BBS - Burundi Backbone System developmentaid.
  2. ^ Transmission de Données BBS.
  3. ^ IP Transit Internet BBS.
  4. ^ Hébergement des données et serveurs BBS.
  5. ^ Gahama 2020.
  6. ^ Ranga Rajan Krishnamani 2016, p. 8.
  7. ^ Burundi Backbone Systems : A National Network.
  8. ^ Burundi: Huawei, Onatel Commission.
  9. ^ Manirakiza 2021.
  10. ^ Ranga Rajan Krishnamani 2016, p. 15.

Sources

  • "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
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