Proposed links for January 2006 deployment
Beginning in early January, the full team (RJ, Matt, and Melissa) will be
present in Ghana to start work on the long distance wireless backhaul
network linking Kumasi National University of Science and Technology to
the University of Ghana in Legon and the University of Cape Coast.
RJ has already completed the first set of links, to University of Cape Coast,
as of the end of October 2005. For some details about that particular
deployment you can consult the slides from his presentation at the
October 2005 TIER Workshop [PPT] [PDF]. Between malaria, power outages, corruption,
and a number of other obstacles, he managed to get a link set up towards
the University of Cape Coast, and we will continue his work by completing
the remaining 8 links in January.
Our partner on this project is Arrow Networks, who are providing the towers
and engineers for the project.
The links will be used by the universities to share databases between the
libraries, allowing them to share the cost of subscription fees
(£30,000/year).
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