From: "John Afele" <jafele@plant.uoguelph.ca>
Organization: Plant Agriculture, Univ. of Guelph
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:48:42 EST
Subject: African Initiatives
Dear Prof. Utsumi-san:
According to the Leland web site (USAID),
http://www.info.usaid.gov/regions/afr/leland/techdsgn.htm
it seems the internet access to Ghana is at 128kbp.
According to the program of the Science and Technology Roundtable I am attending next week in Washington, Mr. Lane Smith, Leland Initiative Coordinator (USAID) is expected to be a panelist as well. Mr. John Mack, who helped start the Leland Initiative, and I also have plans to meet. I will find out from them about the specifics though.
Below is a section of their description but varies depending on what was appropriate and host-country government wishes:
1. Single Channel Per Carrier ("SCPC"): 128KB point-to-point satellite access. Recommend using 3.8 meter dish; or 2. Time Division Multiple Access ("TDMA"): 128KB shared satellite network access. Recommend using 2.4 or 3.8 meter dish; or 3. Utilize an existing national teleport: This requires USAID to provide a multiplexor to split off an excess 128KB (minimum) of voice capacity for Internet traffic.
If no communications link exists between the USAID-provided earth terminal and the Network Operating Center ("NOC"), then Leland will provide a line-of-sight wireless solution.
Thanking you.
John Afele
> Pls visit USAID's URL at <http://www.info.usaid.gov> and find out
> if it extended 128 Kbps Internet from the US to Ghana.
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