Sovereign video infrastructure
Trusted video collaboration across Africa
The African eduMEET Federation is a distributed infrastructure model for NRENs and institutions that need privacy, control, resilience and scale, without dependence on commercial video platforms.
WACREN seeds the federation with media nodes across its 12-country backbone. NRENs contribute server capacity to grow the shared pool, and in return operate their own service on a wider pool of shared media resources, keeping their own domain, identity integration and branding.
WACREN is seeding the federation across West and Central Africa
The service starts with coverage from day one, using servers already installed on WACREN's regional network.
Two ways to join
Select the path that best fits your institution's technical resources and budget.
Infrastructure contributor
Provide media-node capacity to the shared pool. Receive concurrent-slot entitlement and run your own branded service, at no cash cost for the capacity you contribute.
- Free during the pilot period
- eduMEET team installs and manages software
Service subscriber
Use shared capacity built by WACREN and contributing NRENs, under your own domain and identity integration. No local media nodes needed.
- Priced by peak concurrent use
- Contribute infrastructure later if you choose
Everything you need
Federation model
Centrally managed, locally hosted. Architecture, routing, governance and roadmap.
Read the modelParticipation
Core-to-slot conversion, room categories, subscriber model and contributor checklist.
See optionsTechnical onboarding
Server sizing, firewall rules, DNS and SSO/OIDC configuration.
View requirementsHelp your members adopt it
Ready-made materials to introduce eduMEET to universities in your country: a leadership brief, a slide deck, posters and email templates you can brand as your own.
Download the NREN outreach kit