The Moderator has asked: > * Week 1: What activities are bringing connectivity to under-served > communities? (10/27 - 10/31)
NetHope <www.nethope.org> has a slightly different model. NetHope is a consortium of non-profits who work with under-served communities around the world. NetHope attempts to improve basic community development, healthcare and relief efforts by connecting case workers who work with these communities to the Internet and provide them with IP Telephony services. We have been successful in our endeavors in several difficult regions of the world in terms of telecom infrastructure, and are in process of adding 45 countries to the seven we have already addressed (including Afghanistan, Iraq and Liberia). > * Week 2: How much bandwidth is necessary to have a real impact on > development... and why? (11/3 - 11/7) For our target locations we have "standardized" on VSAT links with 64 kbps uplink/512 kbps downlink. This serves LANs of 10 PCs or less. For smaller 2 to 3 person project sites we are using RBGANs with 32kbps/128kbps. These are desired VSAT/RBGAN rates. Our usual experience has been 50% to 75% of these numbers based on contention ratios. Regards Dipak Basu Executive Director, NetHope Cisco Systems, Inc 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95070, USA Direct: +1 408 526 4514 Mobile: +1 408 895 9588 www.nethope.org ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For the GKD database, with past messages: http://www.GKDknowledge.org
