MARWAN is the Moroccan National Research and Education Network created in 1998.

MARWAN is built on MPLS/L2 backbone infrastructure.

MARWAN interconnects via IP all of academic and research institutions’ networks in Morocco.

Institutions are connected via leased line VPN/LL layer 2 circuits.

Important characteristics of MARWAN are:

• More than 250 connected institutions over 140 links covering all Moroccan territory

• Offered bandwidth ranges from 100Mbps to 5Gbps

• Total acceess bandwidth : 96 Gbps

• MARWAN is connected to the Internet via 2 links of 12Gbps each in Rabat and Casablanca

• MARWAN is connected to European Network GÉANT with 1Gbps link from Rabat to London

• All links are in Fiber Optic

• MARWAN is based on SD-WAN

• IPv6 is deployed natively in Dual Stack

• IP multicast support

• Multiple Classes of Service offered to ensure quality of service for critical applications for the Ministry and Universities