1. Project ICTanzania 2006 Team 5 Saad Riaz | Zach Isamuyo | Nsubis Genesis | Mikael Corp

2. Topics  Part A - Overview Background Goals Importance of project Existing fiber Implementation Applications  Part B – Technical details Open Access concept Network design Link layer details Fiber Wireless Services and applications Challenges faced

3. Part A  Overview

4. Background  Tanzania  ICT for rural development  Part of a long term program, funded by Sida

5. Goals  Primary Bringing broadband access to rural parts of Tanzania  Secondary Demonstrate applications

6. Importance of project  Pilot project - to be duplicated  Providing telemedicine and VoIP services  Success will enable fiber to be included with new power lines

7. Existing fiber  Miono-Chalinze 80 km, along a water pipe 18 villages  Bunda-Mugumu 134 km, along a power line 15 villages

8. Applications  Telemedicine For health centers, to communicate with district hospitals  Voice over IP For all customers

9. Part B  Technical details

10. Fiber infrastructure 134 km

11. Distribution frame installation 89 km45 km

12. Open Access concept  Meaning - sharing infrastructure  Applicability into our design

13. Wireless infrastructure

14. Last-mile solution

15. Last-mile solution details

16. Network services  Dynamic private address assignment – DHCP  Caching name server – BIND  Address translation for wide area network services – NAT

17. Services and applications Voice service  SIP server (SER)  MySQL database  Numbering scheme  PSTN gateway

18. Services and applications

19. Telemedicine  iPath  Still pictures  Video conference (webcam)

20. Services and applications

21. Challenges faced  Site selection decision  Insufficient documentation  Procurement details Rules and regulations, shipping, customs

22. Implementation  Six weeks in Tanzania  Installing optical transmission equipment  Erecting radio towers  Implementing the local area network, deploy applications

23. Thank you  Questions?