Abstract
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have integrated all fields of activity today with a real effect on research and education. Thus, this has led the education and research community to build a global network of standards to take full advantage of the related benefits. Indeed, to propose an architecture of a solid education and research network especially for our country is to give a preliminary basis that would help in an efficient realization when our governments decide to support the creation of a national research and education network to stimulate the research. It is in this perspective that the education and research networks (RERs) have emerged. Through a study on the level of Internet coverage of the different public and private structures of higher education and research, based on national data collections and revealing a lack of adequate bandwidth, our investigations allowed to define a network architecture that can be implemented for the needs of education and research in Togo. This allows researchers, teachers and students to share information online, quickly and reliably. Its users are thus able to cooperate more effectively and have easier access to the best available resources. For this study, which concerns the case of Togo, the objective of this paper is to define and implement a better architecture of Togo's education and research network (TogoRER), which will be interconnected to the education and research network of West and Central Africa (WACREN) according to the national technical realities while drawing on the experience of certain countries, hence the problematic of this theme.
Highlights
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become a very important tool in all human activities and the world of research is no exception to this rule nowadays [1]
The public and private higher education institutions (HEIs) that are the subject of this article are the first members of Togo's education and research network (TogoRER) around whom this network is built
The links are made of direct optical fiber from the backbone of TogoRER to different member institutions
Summary
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become a very important tool in all human activities and the world of research is no exception to this rule nowadays [1]. The digital divide that characterizes the north and the south is reflected in a lack of access to modern infrastructure, which is essential in the field of higher education and research in Africa in general and in West Africa [2] and the Center. The difficulties of accessing scientific resources available elsewhere and the exchange of information for the advancement of education and research in educational and research structures in these two regions of Africa is partly due to the absence or the inadequacy of a reliable technological infrastructure which is the essential carrier vector [3] Today, this has an impact on areas of research and higher education that depend on access to robust and reliable platforms.
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