Sizang village telco_overview

Sizang Village Telco (Connecting peoples ) - Connecting Those Who Need It Most
What is Community WLAN
- ( Why WiFi for rural Communication?)
What is a Village Telco
Regular Wifi Networks
Mesh Wireless Networks
Sizang Khua Telco Goals
Project Plan?? (ki cian nei x lai, Sizang Community tawh ki zom na nei )
Wireless Technology Application (examples)...
Risks ??
Q & A.

“ It is better to be crazy than to die...” If you want to do some thing good without money you have to work like crazy and try everything else. -A Napali Proverb-

What is a Village Telco

Regular Wifi Networks

Village Telco Network

Sizang Village Telco - Goals Goals
Train Sizang Community to install a Village Telco network
Install at least 10 Mesh Potatoes(within 5 villages)
Build a local call telephone network
Build an IP Backbone for local IP traffic

Project Plan
A ki cian om ngol lai...
Sizang World Wide Communites te tawh na sep khop thei na nei zo nuam..

Applications
Education
Health care(Telemedicine)
Communication(Email/Intranet/Internet)
Local Business
Access to news and Information
And many more....

Sizang Village Telco
Main goal is local telephone calls
IP connectivity across Sizang Villages
Public IP backbone across Sizang Villages
Public resource, e.g. local chat, web servers, Wiki, mirror of web content
Internet can be distributed by this network(via Kalaymyo IPSTAR or DSL)
But this project doesn't provide Internet

Risks
What can go wrong?
What happens when the trainers goes home?
Train Sizang Community to fix problems
Focus on keeping network running
Train many people, not just one expert
Sustainable Strategy/plans( a diak diak Community based projects na sep na ah...)
How can we make it more reliable?
Do we need special licence for 2.4 and 5.0 Ghz frequency bands in Burma?

Bang Van teng ki sam/zang tu?
Indoor Access Point Router (Or)
Outdoor Access Point Router(incl.Antenna)
High-gain Antenna
Router Firmware/OS(open WRT with Mesh network protocols)
Mesh Potato(WLAN + Phone)

Bang dan devices te ki zang/sam?
Indoor Access Point(AP)/Wireless Router
Indoor WLAN Access Point Router
- Linksys WRT54G (40 - 50 US $)

Bang dan devices te ki zang/sam?
Outdoor Accesspoint(AP) with highgain antenna.
60 US $ Antenna: Integrated 10dBi Dual Pol + External SMA Port , Outdoor Range: over 15km

Antenna
Ol tak in vawt tawm thei pawl khat te.
Can Antenna (5 US $ - 7 US $) 0.5 -1,3 Km Distance
Ref : http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

Antenna
2.4Ghz Square Grid Parabolic Antenna, 24DBI – 50 US $
But with modern Outdoor Access Point Router with integrated antenna, you dont need those Parabolic Antenna anymore.!!! OMNI-DIRECTIONAL - 360°

The Mesh Potato
The Mesh Potato is a new device for providing low-cost telephony and Internet in areas where alternative access either doesn’t exist or is too expensive. It is a marriage of a low-cost wireless access point ( AP) capable of running a mesh networking protocol with an Analog Telephony Adapter (ATA).
Wireless Router 2 dbi Antenna + Telephone a ki hel Device no khat hi.
60 – 100 $ man.

Khau 2 ki zom na tu. Phone bek hi x hi..
2 Mesh Potato (180 US $) :-( ha, man ham thong
2 Outdoor AP – 100 US $
Cables – 15 US $
2 Analog Telephone – 30 US $
plus logistics costs
totals -> 325 US $
Phone call + Data network for many purposes
A ki cing zaw na sim nuam leh? http://bit.ly/dzbQoc

Solar powered WLAN Radio Station
Example : ThangMual tung ah Repeater in zak thei tu...
10 watt solar panel : 100 $ Dry Baterry 12 V, 30 $ ? AD/DC Converter : ?? Total : ca. 150 - 200 US $

Survey for GSM and WLAN installation in Siyin Region by Pa Pum Suan Hang more info http://bit.ly/9xeI6v

Thanks

Me and the Village Telco Hackers : Elektra(Ph.d) , Mr. David(Ph.d), Mr.Edwin Chen

Thanks
Freifunkt.net (Free WLAN Community-Germany)
Dr. David Rowe (Mesh Potato initiator)
Atcom(manufacture), who are making the Mesh Potatoes for the better world
Shuttleworth Foundation, who supported the Village Telco project
Village Telco community from all over the world.
Khaipi(Zogamnuam)
[email_address] / twitter : khaipi

Sizang village telco_overview

by Thomas Khaipi on Nov 21, 2010

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